Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lighting and water movement are also important to feeding because they influence the way many relatively-immobile sessile marine invertebrates gain their nutritional requirements . |
| 2 | We have just occupied Vienna ; a far-sighted man could have foreseen the possibility some considerable time ago . |
| 3 | I have travelled the region many times and always with enjoyment , but never with the eager anticipation of journeys in the north . |
| 4 | The vendor will resist allowing the purchaser such an option . |
| 5 | According to Jung , a simpler nature works on a more complicated one ‘ like a room that is too small ’ , not allowing the partner enough space . |
| 6 | The visitor whose footsteps he had heard circling the house that last dawn they had ever spent there , if indeed he had heard them and not , in his state of panic , imagined them — that man or woman would have had no evidence for thinking anyone lived there but for the presence of Goblander on the drive . |
| 7 | Ken was mowing the lawn that afternoon . |
| 8 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 9 | This involves the way these firms perceive their marketing effort . |
| 10 | The rest of the staff passed the time each in his own way . |
| 11 | Feminists active in the disability rights movement have criticized the way many women have used the fear of disability to argue for abortion rights , and ask us to reassess our relationship to genetic screening . |
| 12 | She said when , when Mrs said why did you ask Emma she goes , cos we asked you to go the cinema all the time . |
| 13 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
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| 15 | He stuffed the head half headfirst into woman |
| 16 | Repeat the exercise several times on each leg . |
| 17 | Unfortunately it is then suggested that you repeat the calibration each time you use the unit . |
| 18 | Repeat the process several times until the green becomes marbled with white . |
| 19 | ‘ Had the contract been simply for so many tons of potatoes of a particular quality then , although each party might have had in his mind when he made the contract this particular crop of potatoes , if they had all perished , the defendant would still have been bound to deliver the quantity contracted for . ’ |
| 20 | The parish expressed their appreciation to the National Trust for the use of the Coniston Hall and also to all those who made the occasion such a happy family affair . |
| 21 | I made the mistake this morning of trying to squeeze in er before I came here to just cl try and clear another task . |
| 22 | The Ventoris features all of the technical systems which made the Genesis such a successful racquet . |
| 23 | And then I thought oh bugger it , I 'm entitled to my opinion and I made the point that |
| 24 | But I think , my dear Lisa , if you cast your mind back you 'll recall that you made the assumption all by yourself . |
| 25 | And do you think that the move from the hand riveting to the pneumatic tools , do you think that made the job any easier ? |
| 26 | For the latter catalogue Barr chose the Surrealist writer Georges Hugnet to write a historical essay , but it was Barr 's intelligent advocacy and choice of works that made the show such a significant affair . |
| 27 | Mistakes of this sort made the movement many enemies and hastened its demise to the fairground , and having one 's bumps read for sixpence . |
| 28 | Jamie and Becky Blandford made the announcement this morning , just two years after their wedding.The Marquis 's solicitors say they have entered what is described as a period of separation in their marriage.Their first child is due in August . |
| 29 | Now bring the throttle all the way back and maintain the five per cent glide . |
| 30 | The newest breed of newspaper ‘ proprietor ’ — Whittam-Smith of the Independent — would probably abhor the prospect either of alignment with a political party or of dictating demands to a political party . |