Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 2 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 3 | I want them to hear more about the world — Europe , South East Asia , the developing world . |
| 4 | Say you live just for the Kids |
| 5 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to deal personally with the Potrovsky widow . |
| 7 | That is why I want you to listen carefully to the dreaded DOs and DON'Ts I am about to give you . |
| 8 | ‘ I want you to stay here in the yard until he returns . |
| 9 | Just say we go ahead with the decision . |
| 10 | Pity they went astray in the middle . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I expect it starts earlier on the Continent , ’ said Sister Dew happily . |
| 12 | Well I I want mine permed really for the wedding . |
| 13 | They say he looked exactly like the family picture of old Sir Hugo , who first saw the Hound . |
| 14 | Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start . |
| 15 | In April 1991 LIFFE launched a new version of the Japanese Government Bond ( JGB ) futures contract which trades exclusively throughout the day ( 7 am to 3 pm London time ) on the APT system . |
| 16 | Let them sweat gently in the butter for 5–6 minutes . |
| 17 | Let them sleep here beside the cabin . ’ |
| 18 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 19 | Do n't punish them for the way in which they behave today and let them get away with the same thing tomorrow just because your own mood is different , or the matter is n't worth ‘ all that bother ’ anyway . |
| 20 | She did not take those hours out and contemplate them ; she simply let them lie somewhere in the head , to surface no doubt at some point of low resistance . |
| 21 | The potential ramifications of such a theme could be vast so let me start somewhere in the middle . |
| 22 | Let me quote again from the report so that people realise that I am not making this up . |
| 23 | Right erm let me go right to the back , the Security Council man , what have you written down ? |
| 24 | Let me turn quickly to the out turn figures that were in P and R. The capital programme is already on line , although it was grossly underfunded . |
| 25 | Let me come straight to the point . |
| 26 | Preferably Chertro with his stupid grin and all the crooked FedPols who let someone walk away with the Ardakke prisoner . |
| 27 | I imagine I stand just inside the door for a few moments , looking into the corner of the room in a companionable way . |
| 28 | I 'll use a cheque and hope I have enough in the account back home . ’ |
| 29 | Yet the aim is for individuals on both sides to come together and explore , ex tempore , mutual areas of interest in the conference venue , the Glasgow Hilton , ( ’ I expect a lot of the business to be done in the corridors ’ , said Howell ) or at the Computer Solutions Show which runs simultaneously at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre . |
| 30 | When you walk you wait there for the first time do n't you ? |