Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 1980s , it battled to achieve two crucial , strategic shifts : to reduce its dependence on bulk , low-margin , commodity chemicals which tend to swing wildly with the economic cycle — in favour of high value-added , high-margin ‘ effect ’ chemicals ; and to cut the share of sales accounted for by the UK . |
| 2 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 3 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 4 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Yet saying aloud to each other 's face , ‘ We do n't want to remain together in the next life ’ would amount to saying , ‘ No love ever existed between us , and no love exists between us now . ’ |
| 6 | As the puppy gets older , he will want to go outside to the soiled piece of paper that you have positioned in a place that you may want him to use . |
| 7 | The main thing is I do n't want to go back into the private sector unless I absolutely have to . |
| 8 | I do not want to go back to the foreign environment of Tbilisi , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Such a world view is the product of a perception conceptualized to contend dramatically with the instant experience of dealing with highly emotive , personal conflicts at street level , or the tensions of ritual ‘ battles with criminals ’ . |
| 10 | We should prefer to go along with the European Communitywide scheme so that British industry is not put at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
| 12 | The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising . |
| 13 | Many salespeople believe that the most efficient routing plan involves driving out to the furthest customer and , then zig-zagging back to home base . |
| 14 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 15 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 16 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 17 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 18 | I got mixed up with the wrong crowd for a while … |
| 19 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 20 | The yanks were itching to see the pop conquerors of late '89 , but a series of postponed tours and a lack of vinyl has seriously affected the Roses ' US invasion potential — not that they care , preferring to slip back into the easy pace of their pre-fuss lifestyle . |
| 21 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 22 | But if I ever got caught out with the big guy in the skull mask and the big axe thing then I 'd probably ask to end up coming back as my son because he 'd have my amazing charm , dazzling character , obscene talent ( ? — Ed ) , and chiselled good looks ! ( and gift for talking utter bullshine ! — Ed ) . |
| 23 | In addition , the food expert would want to know more about the local conditions and the alternative sources of nourishment available . |
| 24 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 25 | And I did n't want to jump out into the fast-moving darkness without any boots and within range of fifty tommy-guns . |
| 26 | Maginnis , and by implication the Official Unionists , were weak and failed to stand up for the common man . |
| 27 | Skills develop and change to compensate partially for the changing capacities . |
| 28 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 29 | The Terminator game , which costs £40 , has jumped straight into the Top Ten best-selling list . |
| 30 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |