Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 2 | I 'd rather throw her off the Empire State Building ! |
| 3 | She 'd rather throw herself to the lions … |
| 4 | Lord Wilberforce 's statement in Tameside , that the decision-maker should properly direct himself to the facts , provides a good example of one aspect of factual review which would allow the courts great latitude for substituting their view for that of the decision-maker . |
| 5 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 6 | in so far as this order purports to have any extraterritorial effect , no person shall be affected thereby or concerned with the terms thereof until it shall be declared enforceable or be enforced by a foreign court and then it shall only affect them to the extent of such declaration or enforcement unless they are : |
| 7 | The British Museum had better prepare itself for the worst . |
| 8 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 9 | If only he believed in her , could n't they together submerge themselves in the waters of Eden and be renewed for all time ? |
| 10 | Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ . |
| 11 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 12 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 13 | If it was simply a matter of the operating system , I 'd have said that it did n't much matter which of the two you chose to go with . |
| 14 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 15 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 16 | That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity . |
| 17 | The Leith-based Small , 19 , who reached the last 16 of the 1992 Embassy World Championship , said : ‘ This is my last event of the season , but I have still learned a great deal and I 'm sure it can only benefit me in the years to come . ’ |
| 18 | I said if I 've got to do a dozen sausage rolls for one I 'd better do them for the others . |
| 19 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 20 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 21 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 22 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 23 | ( For example , by commuting a communication through PAR using 5.6 or 5.7 , one might apparently remove it from the alphabet of the corresponding process . ) |
| 24 | Information having the necessary quality of confidence which is supplied by one party of a contract to another for the purpose of enabling that other to perform a contract will usually be subject to an obligation of confidence so that the recipient may only use it for the purpose of that contract . |
| 25 | You 'll only spend it at the bar otherwise . |
| 26 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |
| 27 | But that line is a difficult one to draw , and some traders or lenders may inadvertently draw it in the wrong place . |
| 28 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 30 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |