Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 2 | The original clock and watchmaker business expanded in the late 19th century and a separate clock factory was set up in Robert Street , Middlesbrough to cope with the demand . |
| 3 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 4 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 5 | He booked a flight for the afternoon of Friday , 24 March with Delta to San Francisco to connect with the British Airways flight for London . |
| 6 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 7 | In the following year the duc de Richelieu , the French chief minister , sent an agent to Switzerland , Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to report on the press there and the possibility of France influencing it in her favour . |
| 8 | There 's a story of a Hercules which left Ascension Island to go to the Falklands . |
| 9 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 10 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 11 | Hayling was pressuring Gerry Taylor to appear in the prospectus . |
| 12 | The lack of an appropriate exchange rate adjustment may well inhibit the ability of members of the CU to adjust to the changes induced by increased competition . |
| 13 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 14 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 15 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 16 | Article 96 of the Company 's Articles of Association requires Mr Blacker , Mr Brown and Mr Walker to retire at the Annual General Meeting since they were appointed by the Board after the 1989 Annual General Meeting . |
| 17 | That was for the sons and daughters of richer families like her Pascoe cousins whose father , Uncle Harry , was making his fortune privateering and could afford to pay for Cousin Tristram to go across the water to Fowey every morning and attend Mr Carew 's new grammar school . |
| 18 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
| 19 | He also designed a bed that could be raised up and down and told Pat to go to the patent office with the plan which would make them both a fortune . |
| 20 | They 're leaving this place in the afternoon and we have another lot coming in , so Stella has arranged for Jean to attend to the chalets and bed changing while she does the barbecue at the end of the rafting . ’ |
| 21 | The time had come for Space Man Scott to go to the moon ! |
| 22 | The flimsy canvas-sided boat sank , leaving Graham Hayes to swim along the coast . |
| 23 | 2 Write the description of Wonderland to go in the brochure . |
| 24 | Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ . |
| 25 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 26 | Negotiations are going ahead for booking top personalities like Johnny Mathis , Bob Monkhouse and Freddie Starr to appear at the club subject to approval by the licensing authorities . |
| 27 | He called to Eleanor to come into the kitchen . |
| 28 | Without a glance at one another the two adults followed , Jake stepping aside at the sitting-room door to allow Shiona to pass into the hall ahead of him . |
| 29 | He then requested Lucy and Jean to come from the kitchen , and , standing between them , he placed an arm round their shoulders as he said , ‘ This is Lucy and Jean , who have attended to your refreshments on behalf of Stella , my hostess , who is indisposed . |
| 30 | With the Consulate France became respectable — the Concordat allowed Napoleon to appear as the protector of Catholicism . |