Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 2 | This only seemed to exasperate the situation and it was some time before order was restored . |
| 3 | So they will continue to arise , but I think that it is right to plan to accommodate the ones that you know about . |
| 4 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 5 | The top reporters may not be able to spare the time and you could end up with the story being written by someone rather less familiar with the subject , whereas a quick telephone call or fax could mean that the story gets to the person you want . |
| 6 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 7 | We have to kill the dolphins because they eat our fish . |
| 8 | She 'd given me a shot to kill the pain and it was making me drowsy . |
| 9 | By transferring the capacity to produce the toxic protein to a different microorganism which does live on roots , it should be possible to kill the insects before they are able to do any material damage to the crop . |
| 10 | The essential feature of the family centre is that it provides a service to the whole family and not just the child although family centres may also provide other child-centred services such as day care , out-of-school activities and child health clinics. ( d ) Support at home Local authorities must make appropriate provision for the following services to be available to children in need who are living with their families ( Sched 2 , para 8 ) : ( i ) advice , guidance and counselling ; ( ii ) occupational , social , cultural and recreational activities ; ( iii ) home help ( including laundry facilities ) ; ( iv ) transport or assistance with travel expenses to and from the home so that the child may take advantage of any service offered ; ( v ) assistance to enable the child and his family to have a holiday . |
| 11 | Thus the naval bombardment , which had , in fact , opened the way to Constantinople were the attack pressed home , served only to alert the Turks and their German ally to their peril in this area . |
| 12 | Question : When I used to write batch files under MS-DOS 4 using EDLIN , I used to add ‘ beeps ’ to alert the user that something had happened by entering the command ECHO ∘VG |
| 13 | The boys not scribing joined in by offering ideas and producing elaborate pictures , inventing new details to enliven the narrative as they developed their pictures . |
| 14 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |
| 15 | He wants to swim the channel because it 's always been his dream . |
| 16 | Duress that invalidates consent consists either of a credible threat to take substantial action against the agent or against a person or a cause that he values if he does not consent or in the taking of such actions against him or against persons or causes that he values with an offer to restore the situation if he does consent . |
| 17 | For socialists to champion the aspiration when there was no objective possibility of its being realized was to be both reactionary and utopian . |
| 18 | I would ask this committee to keep this in the programme and to monitor the situation as it goes along . |
| 19 | And anything that goes in between those disturbs the beam and it causes an electric current to sound the alarm and it 's the same thing that happens with the er detectors . |
| 20 | Bell is happy to cultivate the impression that he was the Svengali who transformed Thatcher 's harsh , strident public persona into something softer and more voter-friendly . |
| 21 | He had never been able to hit the animal but he knew how to throw a punch , and the Punk was n't such a good mover as Cobber . |
| 22 | Mr Lawrence 's appointment was one of the first major changes to hit the organisation after its new corporate identity was launched in 1986 . |
| 23 | This is the latest craze to hit the fairgrounds and it can even be seen in some discos . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ He knows perfectly well how to hit the headlines and there seem to be no depths to which he will not plummet . |
| 25 | The pilot , frantically trying to avoid disaster , felt his craft tilt and knew the big rotors were going to hit the gatehouse before they actually did . |
| 26 | I tried to hit the nose but my arm did n't move . |
| 27 | If the pharmaceutical industry is really concerned about the economics of health care they would be better to curb the profits that they make through drugs sold to the NHS for which the charges are not infrequently excessive . |
| 28 | Bill Walker , MP , who has criticised the Scottish Office for what he says is their failure to help the family , said : ‘ I will be here when they come to evict the family and I will stand shoulder to shoulder with them . ’ |
| 29 | Well I know with two ladies th their daughters wanted to , them to go the house and they would n't . |
| 30 | The ability of a resort to quicken the pulse as I approach . |