Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 2 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 3 | HWIM attempts to find just the n highest scoring ‘ seed ’ words anywhere in the utterance , the remainder being predicted top-down by the syntactic/semantic component using the seed words as starting points . |
| 4 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 5 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 6 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 7 | Jumble up the shades cottage-garden style or choose a cool colour such as cream that will show up on dark wintry days . |
| 8 | We would not have known it was here , unless we had carried out the exercise last night . |
| 9 | This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup . |
| 10 | The home side 's West Indian professional George Ferris made the visitors struggle knocking back the stumps four times and taking five for 75 but Darlington won by four wickets . |
| 11 | In tha has n't the outhouse next door ? |
| 12 | This relationship between torque and field strength receives more discussion in Chapter 3 so for the present we need only consider how the pole magnetic field can be maximised . |
| 13 | Encapsulated in their nose-to-tail cars , stranded drivers read papers , picked their noses and talked to themselves , resigned to the rush-hour wait along the Chiswick High Road . |
| 14 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 15 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 16 | Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 . |
| 17 | I turn right , and walk along the balcony that way , so I do n't pass in front of Jancey 's window . |
| 18 | The justices purported to set aside the conviction 29 days after the finding of guilt and none of the convicting justices had been a party to the decision to set it aside , so neither of the two conditions obtained . |
| 19 | They cut off the electricity last week . |
| 20 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 21 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 22 | GGT 's string of new business wins continued this week with the agency picking up the Cussons personal care account . |
| 23 | As you improve , start to bring the action into your everyday life , such as when bringing the milk out from the fridge or when picking up the post each morning . |
| 24 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 25 | He says up the A one left at Catterick . |
| 26 | When they found her , on an estate in Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent another £68,000 — snapping up the house next door . |
| 27 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 28 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 29 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
| 30 | John is quite a character and loves his role which includes shouting out the news four times a day . |