Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mason waded up and down among the crowds allowing the womenfolk to feel his arm and kiss his dirty hand as though it were a holy relic . |
| 2 | Inset downlights into the top of the openings to light anything that you might care to place in these openings — a plant perhaps , flowers , an interesting object — and you will instantly dramatize the space . |
| 3 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |
| 4 | The Profitboss trusts the experts to lend their expertise to help him reach his profit-making goals . |
| 5 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 6 | Energetic international regulation of banking and tax laws , making it impossible for the mafiosi to launder their ill-gotten gains , would quickly destroy the Mafia and with it the myth of an irrepressible global conspiracy . |
| 7 | 94 , the plaintiff , a seaman , claimed that the defendant , the captain of his ship , had promised him five guineas over and above his ordinary wages if he would perform some extra work in navigating the ship , the promise having been made , when the ship was in danger , to induce the seamen to exert themselves . |
| 8 | Then we 've got the rig , the mast comes in two parts , the boom , the sail and all the ropes to put them together . |
| 9 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 10 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 11 | I have the bruises to prove it . ’ |
| 12 | Terry nodded and looked away to one of the machines , twiddling the knobs to hide his nervousness . |
| 13 | Sadly , that was not even the last of the clubs to deny me membership . |
| 14 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 15 | Mr. Justice Taylor 's report following his inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster commented on the cost of policing and stated : ’ The temptation to the clubs to leave it all to the police is stronger if they are not required to make a realistic payment for police services . ’ |
| 16 | Except , because of the curiously selfless decision by the clubs to vote themselves half the financial liability , that figure is reduced to £3300 , which , divided by 11 , means an average payment per player of £300 . |
| 17 | Professor Sir John Cadogan , chairman of the research council which advised the council on the allocations , said : ‘ We went straight to the heads of the institutions to ask them what were their best bets for boosting the numbers of their top-notch research ratings . |
| 18 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 19 | ‘ It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest . |
| 20 | Forced by the flames to abandon his set , he made his way ( coughing ) into the street and was immediately chased by two ( ‘ knife wielding ’ ) Asian youths . |
| 21 | McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them . |
| 22 | The Court of Session heard that the original plan had been for the Deanses to use their 57 per cent shareholding to remove four directors — Wilson Young , James Johnston , Alastair McKenzie and Clive Scott . |
| 23 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 24 | I shall take advantage of the discussions to consider what improvements can be made . |
| 25 | Had he known the facts of the attempts to reach him , the trapped man would have despaired of ever being rescued alive . |
| 26 | In February 1986 , he wrote an article in The Guardian attacking the Kilmuir rules as ‘ much too wide ’ and setting out the attempts to silence him , quoting letters from the Lord Chancellor ( Hailsham ) . |
| 27 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 28 | By precisely how much we shall see when we come to look at the attempts to sell them to private investors . |
| 29 | While other girls with real mothers resisted all the attempts to gentrify themselves , Eve and Mother Francis studied books on etiquette and looked at magazines to see how nice people dressed , and to pick up any hints on behaviour . |
| 30 | Keegan knew his side would face Barnsley 's stifling three-man central-defensive formation , yet the attempts to counter it bordered on the banal . |