Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , since I am going to kill you anyway — an intruder in my house , I met you , drew my gun ; you attacked me and in the ensuing fight the gun went off , unfortunately killing you — I — ’ |
| 2 | The functional managers are responsible for choosing the right staff , for instructing them and for the result with regard to quality , quantity and cost . |
| 3 | Coins can make three contributions to this study , all of which derive from the way that coin portraits are normally identified by the inscription that accompanies them and from the fact that they have survived in much greater numbers than have portraits in any other medium . |
| 4 | But I ca n't explain it , it 's as if the devil himself is down there , and there 's this horrible smell that chokes you and at the same time you get the feeling that something evil is lying in wait for you . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there must be effect , dependent upon the age of the child , upon libidinal development as we have considered it and upon the modelling phase of the child 's life . |
| 6 | Er well in the book it does n't say it and I tried it and under the give that a little bit more room , can get back under by just moving |
| 7 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 8 | To this he added a determination that existing regulations which restricted the number and quality of foreign seamen employed on British ships should he enforced and strengthened , drawing attention to the abuse whereby shipowners discharged British seamen at foreign ports and hired cheaper foreign crews to replace them and to the need to repeal the Indian Merchant Shipping Act which permitted owners to employ lascars on worse terms than British seamen . |
| 9 | The male does nothing to feed them and from the start they find all their food for themselves . |
| 10 | And I do so in the desire to serve you and in the power of the Holy Spirit . |
| 11 | The problem with the DIY approach in the past , both for the Institute in publicising it and for the accountant in implementing it , has always been the difficulty of ensuring that its content is , in fact , adequately structured . |
| 12 | A book may have to be examined for the author 's motives in writing it and for the librarian 's motives in buying it ; and though one copy purchased may be regarded as a reflection of user interest in the title the purchase of five may be regarded as instructional support . |
| 13 | At Standard Grade pupils carry out an investigation in a topic which interests them and by the Sixth Year each will be capable of using the Heriot-Watt University computer model of the economy . |
| 14 | Sometimes erm given me the questions and sometimes answering the questions for me , its always informing me and over the last few years I 've erm , I said that to try and understand erm , how to use this information in my own work as , as a writer , and I see , I see parallels in all forms of art , communication is of course one , erm and the need to recognise and respond the plight of others is , is another area and the area that as a writer I 'm particularly drawn too . |
| 15 | The American camp withdrew him and under the same rule that is used in Ryder Cup matches his match was declared to be halved . |
| 16 | As American supplies could only effectively reach the British , the American economy became heavily involved with that of the Allies , benefiting them and at the same time making considerable profits for American businessmen . |
| 17 | The total growth in our Gold 90 balances is well in excess of the goal we set ourselves and across the whole of the UK we achieved almost 50 per cent of our 1992/3 target by the middle of February . |
| 18 | … must nine warriors , having nine spears , with a ten furrows ' Width between them and him , assail him and at the same time let fly at him . |
| 19 | Charles 's own inclination was always towards a pro-French and anti-Dutch policy , though marriages between the Stuart family and the ruling Dutch House of Orange slightly restrained him and by the 1670s most Englishmen were beginning to be a little worried by the increasing power of France . |
| 20 | Nevertheless she followed him and for the next quarter of an hour they streaked up and down the pool . |
| 21 | She was silent for a moment , thinking of the drudgery to which Hubert 's vision had condemned her and of the advantages it had denied the children . |
| 22 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 23 | Yeah , yeah was kind , it was kind of them , yes and we went all round the shops and er I thoroughly enjoyed it and in the new Co-Op as well you know , I thoroughly enjoyed it but he took me in the car so that we did n't have to hang about you see |
| 24 | She started to wrestle with the nearside door , but Ward had locked it and in the end she gave up , lying back again and muttering something about remembering now . |
| 25 | He sat on this mower you see and and er as it cut the sheafed it off you see and we 'd to make bands , y you know with pieces of s er And then the lifters put that on the bands and bound them and through the the site . |
| 26 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 27 | It was thought fit that the men should meet at Kendal on the 29th of July at night , where the leasors , or one of them , would attend them and on the next morning take them to visit the " said Myne " and examine its prospects . |
| 28 | Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf . |
| 29 | Five years later the Meeting considered another problem and in its wisdom inverted the common law assumption that an accusation was not a conviction : ‘ The Case of Mr. H. R — — — was brought before the Church , who had misconducted himself and at the recommendation of the Pastor and Officers was suspended until his guilt was proved . ’ |
| 30 | These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time . |