Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 2 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 3 | And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ? |
| 4 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 5 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 6 | He waited for them to pass through into the central chamber . |
| 7 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
| 8 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 9 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 10 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 11 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 12 | I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along , rather that it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him . |
| 13 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 14 | This , of course , is very unfair : it is just not reasonable for me to flounce about in the bathroom for hours and then make a man feel inadequate when I catch him using my dental floss. or to bellow in disgust when I find out he blow-dries his hair . |
| 15 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 16 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 17 | There were newspaper reporters standing in the lane where he had lived , waiting all day for someone to come out of the house . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , it 's not unusual for someone to come in off the street and tell us they owe a million . ’ |
| 19 | She was staring straight past me , sitting very still , as though waiting for somebody to come out of the house . |
| 20 | Twomey sent old Lizzie with the summons : " Mr Twomey says , Sir Dermot says , for ye to come down to the morning room — the young gentlemen are here . " |
| 21 | It 's just I like to know where I stand and which bit of me to tense up before the rubber truncheon lands . |
| 22 | Jasper knelt up on the seats with the rest of them to observe out of the window their progress to Kensington High Street . |
| 23 | It 's a good idea of yours to come out of the Rolls Royce while the going 's good . |
| 24 | ‘ So now , my dears , there 's two of you to warm up by the fire ! ’ |
| 25 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 26 | Be too sordid for both of us to drink out of the bottle . ’ |
| 27 | The presenting problem should be recognised , for example , ‘ Your niece wondered if you would like us to arrange for you to come out for the day once a week ? ’ |
| 28 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 29 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
| 30 | Once we 'd found this little gem — and other setup options — we managed to coax a wonderfully fast high resolution screen upon which to work out of the system . |