Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got ta get into the rocking mood and you |
| 2 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 3 | But things did n't quite go as expected during filming outside the Daily Mirror building in Holborn , London … |
| 4 | We will tell you all you need to know about surviving despite the twentieth-century diet , and the real facts about obesity . |
| 5 | With no football to relieve his loss , Billy took it hard and , on Tuesday 26 July 1932 , the day after the team had reported for trailing for the new season , he was found dead in one of the dressing rooms . |
| 6 | An early decree ordered the destruction of heathen temples ; and the pressure of Westernisation was so relentless and meticulous that at one stage male Christians could be fined for urinating in the oriental , crouched position . |
| 7 | This , they say , is the only chance the rhino has of surviving in the wild |
| 8 | The new Barlow era in the Transvaal looks like coinciding with the official end of Clive Rice 's Transvaal career . |
| 9 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |
| 10 | An old upper-hab mind , lurking in hiding behind the new Fist mind ? |
| 11 | Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal . |
| 12 | While many British evacuees drifted back to the cities once the threat of an invasion had been lifted , refugee children were actively discouraged from returning to the urban life . |
| 13 | The idea that learners should be discouraged from attending to the formal properties of language is comparable to the idea , prevalent in a previous era , that learners should be denied all access to translation . |
| 14 | This was not very difficult ; the Spanish still did not recognize other colonies in the Caribbean and the old rule of ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ went on , so that West Indian governments could still recruit on an official basis men who were committed to fighting against the Spanish whether the governments thought they were at war or not . |
| 15 | The names of taxa must be adhered to according to the international rules , but it is permissible to anglicise the endings , so that members of the superfamily Trichostrongyloidea in the example above may also be termed trichostrongyloids . |
| 16 | The advantage of heading towards the shore has to weighed against the possible disadvantage of lighter winds closer to shore because of the slowing effect of the land . |
| 17 | Pearl uses none of the electronic or ‘ sound enhancing ’ techniques currently fashionable , and aims to concentrate on extracting from the original grooves the essence of music . |
| 18 | I can not simply advise you to go out and buy without trying for the simple reason that it can be very slow on anything less than a really fast machine . |
| 19 | Sublimation is the change from solid to gas on heating and from gas to solid on cooling without passing through the liquid phase . |
| 20 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 21 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 22 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 23 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 24 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 25 | This core can then be supplemented by relying on the open labour market to provide temporary or seasonal workers but also by increasing the share of orders given to subcontractors . |
| 26 | Tinbergen , for example , presented model bills of adult herring gulls ( Larus argentatus ) to the chicks of that species ; the chicks responded by pecking at the red spot at the top of the bill , which strongly suggests that the red spot is a signal , meaning ‘ start pecking ’ ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 27 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 28 | Prune by cutting off the old flowered growth immediately after flowering , when it will produce good new shoots . |
| 29 | The down-problem is solved by adding to the optimal tableau of LPk and using the dual simplex method ( in its upper-bound form ) to restore optimality . |
| 30 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |