Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Make goalposts out of white candy sticks and corner flags out of candles .
2 Lord Mayor , the Labour Group in have a way of bandying words about without any action .
3 Work on the two drainage ditches to keep water off the deck has now been completed and we have now done some work to provide steps down to trackbed level .
4 What holds organisations back from that commitment ?
5 Outside , doing their best to frighten the cat spitless with their howling , were fifty sledge dogs , each chained to a kennel , well separated to stop their most frequent game , that of tearing lumps out of each other .
6 Experienced credit managers will be well aware that once a pattern of payment is established , it is difficult to coax customers out of that pattern .
7 But with monthly payment , money balances will be held to meet expenditures up to one month in the future .
8 A crowd had gathered around one of the piers , where Marlon Brando and Lee J. Cobb were tearing chunks out of each other with docker 's hooks .
9 ‘ It is a recovery , ’ said chairman Sir Ian MacLaurin , announcing profits up by 31 p.c. to £545m before tax for the 53 weeks to February 29 .
10 Only one goal has been conceded in a run of wins that has lifted Swifts out of immediate relegation danger and into the semi-final of the Eastern Floodlight Cup .
11 Unbalanced for some , but those who know the area will agree that you can not make Moderates out of vertical rock .
12 Indeed , it was a similar display to the one they produced at White Hart Lane in March when they put Spurs out of this competition in the semi-finals last season .
13 Quigley et al. ( 1976 ) report on the tendency of deaf children to try to fit subject — verb — object patterns on to all sentence constructions .
14 So she says they usually put schedules on for fourteen month for the next ten months , twelve months .
15 ‘ Walter 's My Secret Life , the fictional narrative of a debauchee , constructed male desire as an illicit but physiologically based animal appetite , which drove men on to fresh excess .
16 As would be expected , such a use would not be possible with make , since the law would appear to be actually bringing about the paying of taxes ( " concurrent causation " ) : ( 166 ) * The law makes everyone pay his taxes , With oblige , on the other hand , the tax law is depicted as simply imposing a state of obligation in the present , which leaves the future actualization of paying taxes up to each individual , who may or may not actually pay them .
17 Memory managers help , of course — the ability to load drivers up into Upper Memory Blocks is very helpful — but you 've often got drivers you 're rarely going to need taking up memory .
18 The results showed profits down by 62 p.c. to £73m before taxation in the 12 months to January 1992 .
19 He was very tempted to hurry developments along in that area , but with things as they were he decided he ought to play it very carefully .
20 Do we defend by attacking as we used to , or do we keep numbers back like last year ?
21 There was a metal grab bar and two bolts on the outside , one at the top , which could have had padlocks on at some time , to keep playful kids out .
22 Teller was obsessed by the Super and although he contributed many valuable ideas to the fission project he declined to devote his time to the solid work required to see things through to practical conclusion .
23 A variation was to drive cattle on to cultivated land , and then have damages assessed at the full value of the animals .
24 Takes beginners up to intermediate level by showing trainees working on specific jobs .
25 Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing .
26 You start moving men about from one job to another , and they start complaining , or demanding to be put on a higher grade .
27 The complete series takes students up to First Certificate level .
28 You may move cards off in ascending order from Ace to King to their respective piles off the playing area .
29 The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating .
30 7 Turn sharp right after 100 yds to climb steps up to High Cliff ( NT sign ) .
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