Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It scared and disgusted her the way every male she met suddenly started ogling the blancmange under her blouse . |
| 2 | Describing himself as ‘ very wary of the concept of history ’ , Derrida has rather attempted to shift the problem away from the conceptual analysis of history as an ‘ Idea ’ which , perhaps more than anything else , has proved to be Hegel 's most enduring legacy , towards an analysis of the interstices in the implications of the general system in which it operates . |
| 3 | ( Fashanu has since attempted to visit the Yorkshire Ripper , Peter Sutcliffe , without success . ) |
| 4 | We 'll need somewhere dry to spend the night if we 're not to go down with pneumonia . |
| 5 | Margaret Thatcher has personally opposed joining the ERM . |
| 6 | I mean talent has obviously got to head the list . |
| 7 | The T x column has been included merely to help explain the calculation of e x ; it represents the total ‘ robin-years ’ of life remaining for all of the original cohort that have reached age x . |
| 8 | Labour policy has long sought to challenge the Treasury 's dominance in government . |
| 9 | Established to rekindle Anglo-Italian relations after the Heysel disaster , the tournament has only served to blacken the name of soccer . |
| 10 | The reintroduction of stamp duty in August , which is the equivalent of 20% of the deposit required for a 95% mortgage , has only served to aggravate the problem . |
| 11 | Since then the increase in warning time has merely served to reinforce the view . |
| 12 | the police and the parents were trying to work together to try to solve the problem , but the parents accused the police of ignoring any help given to them . |
| 13 | Together the Yamato-1 's two SEMP drives provide enough punch to push the 185-ton ( 525-cubic metre ) experimental craft through the water at eight knots . |
| 14 | On March 2nd 1872 , a letter came from the Mayor saying that the Corporation 's building would be ready in a few days and that they would be willing to receive patients under ‘ such arrangements as may be deemed best adapted to check the progress of the epidemic ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ But it is possible that she has just decided to leave the area . ’ |
| 16 | Does the Minister understand that what he has just said underlines the public 's high regard for search and rescue services provided by the Royal Air Force , particularly in a constituency such as mine , where RAF Leuchars is situated ? |
| 17 | So imagine the confused looks on the faces of viewers in America , where the PBS network has just started to show the Yorkshire Dale 's soap for the first time . |
| 18 | A salesman from a components supplier has just offered to provide the firm 's requirements for two components , the BC100 at £7.75 each and the BC200 at £2.00 each . |
| 19 | That surprised everybody , since the administration has lately tried to talk the dollar down . |
| 20 | Clinton has already moved to strengthen the hand of environmental bodies by upgrading the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , giving it the status of a fully fledged department . |
| 21 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that he has already decided to refuse the trust application from the Royal Scottish National hospital at Larbert and to suspend the applications from Foresterhill and Ayrshire South hospitals , designating them as shadow trusts , whatever that means ? |
| 22 | As Haslemere has already begun to make the town accessible for wheelchair-bound people , would n't it be nice if the town could become totally accessible for both able bodied and disabled people . |
| 23 | ICL has already agreed to take the product , while Olivetti , Bull , DEC , NCR and others are evaluating it . |
| 24 | The shrewd Smailes has already agreed to buy the beers all night in the event of a half century being scored from this direction this summer , in one innings that is . |
| 25 | It has already helped preserve the goalmouths at Luton 's Kenilworth Road ground . |
| 26 | Intelsat has already had to stretch the lives of six older satellites over the Pacific Ocean and last summer repositioned a satellite over Indonesia to increase capacity . |
| 27 | The Directorate has already acted to meet the challenge posed by Compulsory Competitive Tendering . |
| 28 | Questions could be asked about the failure of the NRA to include in its cost estimate the sum of £6 million of taxpayers ' money that it has already spent promoting the scheme , or it could consider any of the indirect costs arising from the construction of the channel . |
| 29 | Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer ! |
| 30 | Generally speaking , there is evidence that the church has always tended to support the hegemony of the state qua state . |