Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You seem to think that 1960s ' antitrust law enforcement was wonderful because the government ‘ took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . ’ |
| 2 | They are nonetheless a big comedown from the 1960s , when federal trustbusters took on giants the size of AT&T and IBM and broke up a merger of Procter & Gamble and Clorox . |
| 3 | We skied down o the village of Argentiere in the rain . |
| 4 | If there is a serious departure from these laid down guidelines the auditor may refuse to accept that the accounts are a ’ true and fair view ’ of the financial affairs of the company and accordingly qualify the accounts to that effect . |
| 5 | In the first month of the new junta , 131 workers were reported killed as the military hardliners in government sought to clamp down op the unions . |
| 6 | He just was not able to bring in business the way DPR would have liked him to do . |
| 7 | One of the cages had a movable inner wall which could slide along rails the full length of the interior . |
| 8 | If , you see if you put down literacy the the whole show 's in there , I mean if you 're going to put i , put isolated spelling it i it encourages a very limited view of what English is about and success in using language . |
| 9 | After a comprehensive introduction to the basics of Excel such as how to start the program , move around the worksheet and use the pull down menus the reader is gently introduced to more advanced functions . |
| 10 | Mr Major — salary £76,234 — hopes that with Ministers taking a lead in the bid to keep down wages the nation can be persuaded to swallow the bitter pill . |
| 11 | The boys talked nostalgically about the way fighting had been a part of their fathers ' world ; ‘ about the time old man MacIlroy , half-pissed , had taken on ali the men folk of his very extended family , at his sister 's wedding , and stili had time to call for more beer . |
| 12 | That he had taken over Joe the Fish 's businesses and made a name for himself among the villains . |
| 13 | The hull is deliberately shaped so that as soon as it is put slightly off course the veer will increase and increase until the boat is facing the other way . |
| 14 | I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page . |
| 15 | In many far off lands the Commission 's gardeners have no knowledge of the English language , while their supervisors are not fluent in the native tongue ; the result has been , so the Commission reports , that a form of hybrid speech has developed in certain countries that would be incomprehensible to other natives of the country and to ordinary English-speakers , but which is ‘ very eloquent ’ on matters relating to cemetery maintenance ! |
| 16 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 17 | As you head up Wasdale the prominent , wedge-shaped peak of Yewbarrow ( 627m ) sweeps up from Wastwater and offers scramblers and competent walkers a challenging outing . |
| 18 | The AP man rushed up tot the Shah with a wire that announced : " Teheran : Mossadeq overthrown . |
| 19 | To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherent style or structure . |
| 20 | and I went with her last week , then she had to go again on Monday , but she went Saturday as well , then she had to go back up Monday the last , so she has n't been have n't seen her since I 've been gon na go up all week but the weather |
| 21 | We goes up town the following week then to get and I forget what I was looking for , oh it was I was looking for your blouse |
| 22 | Tucked up tor the night on a long-haul flight . |
| 23 | The association of ideas made fondness for Gentle sound like another disease , but he did n't comment on it , merely made arrangements to pick up Klein the following evening and put down the phone , plunged into a deeper trough than ever . |
| 24 | If you have a look at the sheet you can see there are six sections and then on the right hand side there are two columns , one is headed up pupil the other is headed up teacher . |
| 25 | It was already up $3 the day after the announcement , giving KKR investors an immediate paper gain of $70m . |
| 26 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 27 | Maybe Billy himself set up Freddie the Lion to clear out the opposition in his own chosen patch . |
| 28 | The next stop was Butterfield , where they picked up Morton the embalmer . |
| 29 | HOLT ‘ S Farnborough staff brushed aside all opposition in a Royal Scottish Assurance leaders referral competition — and ended up £500 the richer ! |
| 30 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |