Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I even fancied that the prop-wash from our full power had blown the dinghy back a bit to make up for the slight delay in the drop ) . |
| 2 | I expected a struggle to keep up with the hearse ; instead , its response surprised me . |
| 3 | But the House of Love do offer something of their own — a willingness to play around with the pace of the music , cutting off the power to switch suddenly into a softer , more lyrical approach . |
| 4 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 5 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 6 | It seemed incautious to attempt it indoors , and I was half-way out of bed to get a tray to take out into the garden before I realized the ridiculous nature of the enterprise . |
| 7 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 8 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 9 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 10 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 11 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 12 | Entry is normally open to all who can demonstrate a capacity to keep up with the courses and to benefit from such study , regardless of age or background . |
| 13 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 14 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |
| 15 | Smelling the water , Daisy needed no further encouragement and put on a spurt to hurry down to the river . |
| 16 | Therefore the Australian move to make whaling more humane was in fact a move to get back to the way it had been after a serious deterioration . |
| 17 | Home is the centre of my life , a place to go out to the world from , a place to return to . |
| 18 | If he had really only been looking for shelter and a place to doss down for the night , why look further than this ? |
| 19 | The market ; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there . |
| 20 | It will be a place to link technology with science , to stimulate and amuse , a place to find out about the natural and man-made world . |
| 21 | A body to take over from the Wagner Development Group . |
| 22 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 23 | He climbed the stairs , paused for a moment to look out of the landing window at the bay in sunshine , then continued on up . |
| 24 | Moving back to the bridge , she halted for a moment to stare down at the sluggish water , and the wavering reflection thrown back at her made her feel like weeping forever . |
| 25 | He paused for a moment to glance out of the window . |
| 26 | Joe had a job to get through to the counter , for the pawnshop was overflowing with articles awaiting redemption . |
| 27 | Quite a job to keep up with the crane . |
| 28 | Without Mr Gorbachev as party boss , a rapid realignment of forces would take place , making it possible for a coalition-for-democracy to line up against the coalition-for-clampdown . |
| 29 | If we picture a vibration as a cycle , that is as equivalent to a rotation round a circle to arrive back at the beginning again , the angular distance travelled in the mathematician 's natural units is 2π . |
| 30 | There may also be a reluctance to move out of the South , in the fear that if house prices in the ‘ North ’ increase at a slower rate , it may be difficult to return to the ‘ South ’ at a later date ( refer also to Chapter 8 , page 107 ) . |