Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 2 | Black sportsmen are drawn from the ranks of black working-class youth and these generally grow up under similar conditions , being subjected to the same kind of pressures or lack of them . |
| 3 | He had obviously managed to make the far end of the alley and slip out under cover of the fog , scant seconds before the other cars had arrived to seal it off . |
| 4 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 5 | Even if a policy of controlling the money supply may be optimal at present , if previously held relationships break down under rapid financial change , then the rationale for controlling the money supply may disappear . |
| 6 | ‘ The spikes break off under your skin and you ca n't get them out . ’ |
| 7 | The maids in houses also wash up under running water , using all the hot water and soap and running up large electricity bills . |
| 8 | Despite the introduction of phosphorescent strips which show up under ultra-violet light , and a security shield on the new 10 pound stamp , counterfeits still cost the postal service millions of pounds a year . |
| 9 | Keep a packet of pitta bread in the freezer , heat up under the grill from frozen and cut into fingers . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , you can ‘ But , Daddy ’ at me all you like — it 's not going to bring you , or any of those amadans mocking the poor guard , back to life when they walk out under a ten-ton truck . ’ |
| 11 | Then he set to work honing his own brand of precision engineering into countless dance records put out under the name Reese ( short for Maurice , his middle name ) , Reese and Santonio and KS Experience . |
| 12 | At dawn , they sidle back under the sea 's edge . |
| 13 | ‘ I walked round her bed I could see her lying face up under the bedclothes , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The Home Office has commissioned research from Professor Graham Davies of Leicester University who says it focuses on four key areas : observing how tapes are used in court and how children stand up under cross-examination ; tracking how many tapes are made and how many end up in court ; discovering the views of lawyers , judges , social workers , police who use the tapes ; and judging the memorandum 's influence over how recordings are made and questions asked . |
| 15 | " Now , you just jump back under the covers , and I 'll sit myself here . |
| 16 | Then I sow one of my colleagues die from a heart attack and two others crack up under the strain . |
| 17 | ‘ And she 's a real toff , ’ warned the old woman , tethering her ragged skirts about her more closely and fingering a few sparse hairs back up under her bonnet . |
| 18 | Women are severely under-represented in the urban trade union movement and make up under one-quarter of the total membership . |
| 19 | It involves putting make up UNDER the skin , using a special probe . |
| 20 | So decide whether you get in under your own steam , or with my assistance . ’ |
| 21 | They nip you here , bite you there , they creep in under your skin and lie curled there . |
| 22 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 23 | Calero mentioned that the American revolutionaries too had front companies like those set up under the Enterprise , established in Europe to take in money from France and Spain . |
| 24 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 25 | This disclosure requirement , in turn , made possible a recommendation in June 1990 by the Innovation Advisory Board ( set up under the aegis of the Department of Trade and Industry ) that a ‘ UK R&D scoreboard by sectors and companies ’ should be drawn up . |
| 26 | The final major institution was to be the Court of Justice , not to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights set up under the 1950 Convention and based in Strasbourg along with the Council of Europe . |
| 27 | Set up under the Bonn Convention on migratory species , the agreement obliges its members — Belgium , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden and the UK — to protect bats in the various ways that bats can be protected : finding out where they are and conserving their habitats , studying them , controlling pesticides and stopping people from killing them . |
| 28 | Industrial tribunals were established under s.12 of the Industrial Training Act 1964 with a narrow jurisdiction to consider appeals against the levy on employers to finance the industrial training boards set up under that Act . |
| 29 | As for companies from other member states , which by virtue of the first paragraph of article 58 are equated to natural persons for the purposes of the application of the provisions on the right of establishment , the Act of 1988 deprives them of the right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom through the intermediary of agencies , branches or subsidiaries , since it provides that only companies set up under the laws of the United Kingdom may be owners and operators of fishing vessels , and restricts their right of participation in the capital of companies or firms , as the corresponding right of natural persons is restricted by the Act . |
| 30 | Judges also preside over enquiries set up under the Tribunals of Enquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 . |