Example sentences of "the [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vic sighs , hits the Off button on the clock , switches on his bedside lamp ( its dimmer control turned low for Marjorie 's sake ) , gets out of bed and paddles through the deep pile of the bedroom carpet to the en suite bathroom , making sure the connecting door is closed before he turns on the light inside . |
| 2 | you know , so the rebellion against him could just as easily have been because he was raised as an Egyptian or that , that the , you know the between monarchism from the past could also have been . |
| 3 | But also which reflects the style of the original , and that means the for instance in the second sentence , no , third sentence , for by fairness they feed the sight and pleaseth the smell by odour and touch by self han , by soft handling . |
| 4 | And the , there 's a crying need for the for nurses in the hospitals and wards and the , and they sort of they 're cutting down you know , on the hospital programme closing wards er , not employing nurses when they need them you know , and they 're trying to get |
| 5 | In the meantime , practitioners who are concerned with transactions in land will wish to be adequately informed as to the of impact of the new tax and of the pitfalls be associated with it . |
| 6 | Certainly , erm , it has changed this year , erm , but the arrangements now are , that we produce our report across the year , with i , and as you can appreciate the report summarises various , of one thing we done during the with officers around the county round the Erm , at the , at the end of November , we commit to writing this report in summary version , which we then discuss with the Chief Executive and the County Treasurer in particular , they take whatever soundings they wish with other offices and then we agree that letter . |
| 7 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 8 | Indeed the Law Commission Working Paper No 77 , Implied Terms in Contracts for the Supply of Goods ( 1977 ) , recognised three possible approaches : firstly , the bailor is strictly liable ( Jones v Page ( 1867 ) 15 LT 619 per Kelly CB at p621 ) ; secondly , the goods must be as fit as care and skill can make them ( Hyman v Nye ( 1881 ) 6 QBD 685 per Lindley J at p682 ) ; thirdly , the bailor is liable only if he fails to take reasonable care to ensure that the goods are fit which , as the via media of the two other approaches , was eventually adopted in s9 of SGSA 1982 . |
| 9 | What should be the main east-west street was inherited from the via principalis of the second-century forts and also represents the line of the Stanegate entering from the west . |
| 10 | James Stephen the elder took Wilberforce 's sister as his second wife and in the next generation James Stephen the younger — the under secretary at the Colonial Office in the crucial emancipation period — married a daughter of John Venn , the rector of Clapham . |
| 11 | " the Under Roome of the howse wherein the Schoole ys nowe kepte to and for the use of the Schoole to be kepte theere for ever . |
| 12 | Top Level ran into the under part of the Back Strings . |
| 13 | It can without difficulty also be seen as a staircase with the under surface of the stairs visible . |
| 14 | with a fee of £2.30 to the under sheriff for the county in which the writ is to be executed — that is , the county in which the defendant 's assets which are to be seized are situated . |
| 15 | In the Mecoptera , both lobes bear a few relatively long bristles , the jugal ones lying on top of the hind wing in flight while the humeral bristles form the frenulum which presses against the under side of the fore wing . |
| 16 | From the resulting corner , Paul Simpson 's corner , Andy Melville flicked the ball on at the near post , Martin Foyle 's header hit the under side of the bar and bounced away . |
| 17 | Right seems to be er the in word at the moment . |
| 18 | Yo , that 's an important question that comes as a we can attempt or the group can attempt to answer that question the in reports of the next so we do n't lose it off the agenda . |
| 19 | All the in favour of the C E C statement would you please indicate ? |
| 20 | I see fostering , except under exceptional circumstances , as the in trust for the natural family' thing , and I think some of the efforts made to safeguard the child are in fact safeguarding the foster-parents … |
| 21 | And in the in fact in the early days o o f o one of the things that had happened f early on was that I would do jobs on my own , and you it 's amazing how many number of one-man jobs there are . |
| 22 | I 'm just sitting wondering whether the in light of the problems we 've had in the Gulf , there 's no doubt about it the strengthening of the relationship between this country and the States is certainly there for all of us to see , so do you think that 'll have a spin off in terms of people wanting to come here and visit us ? |
| 23 | So you 're saying you 're the in terms of the media and how it 's erm presented to the outside world , I mean what do you what do you f that You 've said this now you felt you feel it 's unfair . |
| 24 | Er and I , as Mr Curtis has suggested , if Mr Shepherd who conducted the greenbelt local plan enquiry decided on massive relaxation or substantial relaxation on the inner boundary , er of the greenbelt , er and the implication being that er some of that land could be made available for housing , then yes , as a matter of principal that would cast doubt on the new settlement er strategy in terms of the in terms of the numbers , conversely , if you look at another option , if you , for example , confirmed the new settlement strategy but thought that the development requirement for Greater York really was er needed to be larger than nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , twelve thousand , thirteen thousand , and I hope not , then the County Council would need to have a look at the issue of one as opposed to two new settlements , and again we will do that , and we will not take any decisions on the basis of having one report , er but not another , and I hope er that that is helpful , I can confirm that er at the end of this month the Greater York authorities will be meeting , erm and er they will be urgently looking towards erm progress erm on this issue . |
| 25 | Just over half an hour later , the tidal wave swept up to the Over bridge on the outskirts of Gloucester . |
| 26 | Let's see if they 're go in this I wonder if I can balance them on top of the on top of the potatoes . |
| 27 | all the way round here , it just looks as though the on top of the bath robe cot into the oh into the look along there |
| 28 | The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street . |
| 29 | The use of the to infinitive in the second example is more difficult to account for . |
| 30 | Like verbs of perception , make takes the to infinitive in the passive ( cf Quirk et al. |