Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun pl] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not seem to hit the kids hard but they did not show their feelings . |
| 2 | The Jamaican Director of Public Prosecutions decided to discontinue the proceedings so that the defendant could again be charged with murder . |
| 3 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 4 | I mean having to come upstairs before you even get into the house is n't very good either , cos I mean with kids you 've got to carry the pushchairs up and everything and carry kids up and carry all your shopping up , it 's not , it 's not very practical having them upstairs . |
| 5 | Over the following three years , I was to see the keys again and , more often , the deeds of ownership to lost land . |
| 6 | But it is very much more important for the novelist to see the trees rather than the wood . |
| 7 | A characteristic of many Gnostic sects was to treat the sacraments either as magic or as mere symbols for a subjective psychological state within the individual believer . |
| 8 | The secret is to arrange the stripes so that they do not appear to be in regular order and this can be done in a number of ways . |
| 9 | He observed that the protesters did not enjoy the rights of common that had been affected , and on this basis he decided to modify the by-laws so that they could continue to apply to all the world except the commoners themselves . |
| 10 | Plaintiffs will need to inform the courts immediately if they receive payment from the defendant before the hearing . |
| 11 | The ferret 's function is to frighten the rabbits so that they bolt out of the holes or to force them to retreat through the burrow system until they become cornered so that they can be dug out while the ferret holds them in that fixed position . |
| 12 | The movement moved round the ports of Britain like wildfire and at each , beginning with Southampton , the owners made concessions which served to encourage the strikers elsewhere and weaken the determination of the employers . |
| 13 | The spokesman said the Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages refused to accept the Bosnians even after it was given the text of a message from the vice president of Bosnia approving the flight . |
| 14 | Reagan had tried to meet the families once or twice , the first time in a school library in Chicago Heights ; the relatives furiously demanded help from him , boxing him in with a semi-circle of school chairs . |
| 15 | Factually , it is the operation of the port and opening of the Gillingham Gate throughout 24 hours which is calculated to attract the vehicles up and down those roads in the immediate vicinity of the port . |
| 16 | It is quite usual for the powerful cremaster muscle to pull the testicles upwards and inwards when the outside temperature is cold . |
| 17 | Mr Major ought to pull the strands together and strike out rhetorically . |
| 18 | Also , all chest exercise must be balanced by back training , otherwise the chest muscles will begin to pull the shoulders round and the weaker , untrained back muscles will be unable to counteract the pull . |
| 19 | Cos they want to pull the trees up as well . |
| 20 | Finding that their efforts are doomed to failure , what more natural than that they should cause the company to execute a floating charge in their favour to secure the loans so that if anything is left , after the claims of the prior chargees are satisfied , they take it rather than the unsecured creditors ? |
| 21 | But you need to recharge the batteries now and again . ’ |
| 22 | The correspondence , leaked to Labour 's Trade spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , discloses for the first time that Lord Young appeared to plan with Professor Roland Smith , chairman of British Aerospace , to hide the figures rather than simply leaving the information to be ‘ scattered ’ in obscure documents in the hope that Parliament would not notice it . |
| 23 | No need to neglect the chickens just because I 'm talking to Jin . ’ |
| 24 | But then , to my mind , the person that who , who threatens to punch the lights out and gets whatever they want , everyone should get the degree of service . |
| 25 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 26 | Fortunately it was possible to contain the flames so that only the Redoutensaale , relatively uninteresting eighteenth-century reception rooms remodelled in the nineteenth century and latterly used for conferences , were destroyed . |
| 27 | It is important to recognise , too , that there are certain structural problems in the industry ; but , above all , we must tackle the problem of the failure of the French to observe the rules effectively and their failure to employ enough inspectors . |
| 28 | In all phases of the education system , community language sessions have to be made enjoyable : such language learning is a process which has a real capacity to engage the learners even where there may not be significant material rewards . |
| 29 | The horse man used to have to go before anybody else , to feed the horses so that , and groom them , currycomb them , water them and do everything , before any of the farmers dare take them out on the fields . |
| 30 | These exaggerations are offered to define the limits rather than to present accurate profiles , but they do highlight an educational dilemma . |