Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 2 | The twist to the story came when the old man was found to be a carrier of the very germs that he blamed the coloured people for bringing into the country . |
| 3 | The first … is the arrangement for bringing to the Joint Intelligence Organisation 's attention information other than intelligence reports . |
| 4 | Blue Arrow plc , a UK employment agency which Mr Reed was responsible for bringing to the bank in 1985 , was seen as a valuable addition . |
| 5 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 6 | Er facilities er exist for parking and so on and the only thing is , er I 'm talking about catering in the sense of a Saturday whether it 's here or there . |
| 7 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 8 | Erm , and it 's quite an early start so it 's , it just makes it such a late night to for eating by the time you 've come out the cinema it 's erm |
| 9 | Their hospitality would doubtless have extended to me sampling the food in each of the three messes — but not wanting to risk either myself or the computer 's Carafe programme developing hiccups , I enjoyed visiting each mess and settled for eating in the Sergeant 's Mess . |
| 10 | The shrimps are too small for eating in the summer , but the net will capture lots of other small fish including the sandy coloured gobies , juvenile flatfish , dragnets , the Lesser Weever with venomous spines , pipefish , rockling ; as well as hermit crabs , little cuttlefish , and larvae of all sorts . |
| 11 | You many have thought , like me , that serving hatches went out when the craze for eating in the kitchen came back into fashion . |
| 12 | ‘ We might go and have lunch , ’ Anthony said to Maud , looking at the preparations for eating in the compartment — napkins tucked into shirt collars , laps spread with paper bags . |
| 13 | Worth seeing for the performances , especially those of George T Odom , Ann D Sanders and Rich himself . |
| 14 | Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern . |
| 15 | Use the normal rules for drowning from the WFRP rulebook . |
| 16 | Therefore , although it was a little slower in use , no time was lost in the field through frequent breaks for sharpening with the rub-stone as were needed with both swap-hook and scythe . |
| 17 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 18 | Mrs. Michie : I note your ruling about sticking to the new clause , Mr. Deputy Speaker . |
| 19 | Olschewski had no worries about competing in the difficult personal computer market , saying ‘ We are not concerned about unit numbers , but about quality . |
| 20 | There was widespread media criticism of the government for capitulating to the drug traffickers , but Gaviria denied that he had entered into negotiations or made any prior deal with Escobar as part of a policy to defuse the costly and violent " drug war " gripping the country . |
| 21 | Although the Macmillan cabinet pressed management to delay a settlement , ministers were not prepared to take responsibility for a breakdown in negotiations ; when the industry settled , the Prime Minister publicly rebuked management for capitulating to the unions and breaching the pay pause ( 1982 : 225–6 ) . |
| 22 | Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab . |
| 23 | Those with a mushroom-style head are intended to cast the beam downwards on to the flower beds below , others with a pencilshaped lamp are suitable for using along the edge of a path or for illuminating an area of border . |
| 24 | Using woven fabrics for household articles seems appropriate because many of the samples when they are finished have the right feel and substance for using in the home . |
| 25 | Vincent went to him for drawing in the mornings , and in the evenings to try his hand at watercolours , as he had done before Christmas . |
| 26 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 27 | During the 1967 San Francisco Film Festival , Crawford met Gene Kelly , the song-and-dance maestro who had himself been a hit on the Broadway stage before starring in film musicals such as Singing In the Rain . |
| 28 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 29 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 30 | Is power disguised as stemming from the organisation rather than management at Burger King ? |