Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |
| 2 | He began by taking the wrong road out of Burford , then tried this lane to get back to the A40 . |
| 3 | ‘ All he said was that he was in trouble and that he needed some money to get out of the country . |
| 4 | Sucralose is one of the few products to come out of the Reading research labs that T&L felt it had the resources to develop through to the market . |
| 5 | ‘ I need a few hours to report back to the office , then my time can be my own . |
| 6 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 7 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 8 | This refusal to fit in with the system continued when he returned to London , having jumped ship after a series of incidents — chopping down the house of someone 's aunt ; being technical supervisor on a failed bank robbery — had made him somewhat too conspicuous to the New Zealand authorities . |
| 9 | Underlying this refusal to face up to the logic of resistance was not merely a residual pacifism , but , more importantly , an inability to accept that armaments in the hands of the Chamberlain government would make the world a safer place . |
| 10 | I do n't want this match to end up like the last two Tests . ’ |
| 11 | Go right , bounce on the trampoline , go up , right , down and paint the button , paint some platforms to bounce out of the cave you 're in , go left , down to the trampoline , go right and fall down , go left and paint the switch , go right and climb the stairs poking out of the cauldron , paint the button on your right , fall down and go left , fall down and go left , fall down and collect the picture from the bottom of the hole , paint some of the ledges to get out of the hole and go right , fall down the right-hand side of the map and go left , paint the switch , go left and paint the next switch . |
| 12 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
| 13 | Signs that you have gone to some trouble to find out about the firm will be very much in your favour . |
| 14 | Harry Hawke recalls that it was the aim of skinhead devotees of this music to keep up with the latest releases and consequently white-label , i.e. pre-release , copies of records were the mark of a skin who knew his music . |
| 15 | The furniture was clearly old , and had been chosen with some care to fit in with the atmosphere of the hall . |
| 16 | Robert did not shift his eyes , waiting for another image to swarm out of the chamber in front of him , but all he could hear , now , was groaning . |
| 17 | ‘ You have to pay this lot to get out of the way . |
| 18 | So here the relationship between the lexical concepts has to be marked in some way to make up for the inadequacy of the words to indicate what part of the general context of knowledge is to be engaged . |
| 19 | Does he believe that , even with massive commitment and dedication , it will be possible for the large number of single-practice GPs in this country to measure up to the demands of the community care programme in 1993 ? |
| 20 | I 'll try and get some mates to help out for the crack . ’ |
| 21 | Where possible give her some task to carry out during the outing for example , helping to find the items on a shopping list . |
| 22 | It took us both some time to wake up to the fact that the world did n't owe us a living . ’ |
| 23 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 24 | Ultimately just another conquest to lump in with the rest , so your score-sheet could remain unblemished by failure . ’ |
| 25 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 26 | As such , it is natural for these buyers to stay out of the market until they are sure that prices have hit the bottom and are beginning to rise . |
| 27 | ( 145 ) I asked if this was because television was causing fewer people to go out to the cinema and she replied no . |
| 28 | A court order enables either party to go back to the court if unreasonable delay in carrying out the terms of the order is experienced , and if there is to be a conveyance of the matrimonal home following an agreement between the husband and the wife ( not incorporated into a court order ) it is always open to either party to make application to the court at any time . |
| 29 | She told me she made a point of taking a walk each day to get out of the way of all the old people , but I was reassured when I saw that she was well-known at the café and seemed to have several friends among its patrons . |
| 30 | For many people life today is such a bustling affair with so many things to get through in the day that it is not difficult to forget to be aware of what is around us . |