Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |
| 2 | The procedures for the flexible sale process and auction are considered separately in the sections below . |
| 3 | At all other times , cars are parked just outside the walls where there is some free as well as fee paying parking available . |
| 4 | He wanted to know more about the trees too . |
| 5 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 6 | The Nazareans or the Nazarean Party — the so-called ( and misnamed ) ‘ first Christians ’ or ‘ Early Church ’ — do not appear to have differed doctrinally from the groups generally known as Essene or Zadokite . |
| 7 | There seemed to be so many of them , more and more crowding silently through the ruins wherever she looked . |
| 8 | Yet the poem stands apart from the attitudes most commonly expressed in her work , and , given its obscurity , it is necessary to be cautious with respect to its specific meaning . |
| 9 | She had heard already from the girls how Luke had tried to get Maggie to go to England to learn nursing against Moran 's fierce opposition , how their older brother and Moran had fought , and when Maggie yielded to Moran and stayed , Luke had gone on his own without telling his father . |
| 10 | But it was I who got away to the steps up to the morning room , Francis 's sorry steps . |
| 11 | Any ice left after the previous day 's racing had been broken conclusively in the scenes out in the station , and the party had already gelled and was in full swing . |
| 12 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 13 | Contoured hills hide car parks tucked away in the hollows out of sight — for the cars of yachtsmen , fishermen , ramblers and bird watchers . |
| 14 | ‘ The questions on education are likely to reflect badly on the children even though everyone involved may be dong their utmost for them . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , it 's like just walk all over the students again . |
| 16 | Hopkins played nicely to the crowds too , although it was hard to figure out if it was conscious manipulation or the unconscious product of his enthusiasm . |
| 17 | While Nyasha bravely went into the temple and there sitting on the throne that was made only for the chiefs there sat not a king not a prince |
| 18 | Athletics , too , had moved away from the days when black sportsmen in the USA were forbidden to compete against whites . |
| 19 | A rule whose action is basic will appear just like the rules above for the straightforward version . |
| 20 | It seems Rover is now keeping faith with old faithfuls but analysts are looking more at the motives rather than the marketing . |
| 21 | While Fullan writes in a wide educational context , his work can be applied directly to the initiatives now underway in the UK : |
| 22 | This way of regarding the infinitive 's relation to person can be applied moreover to the uses already examined in Chapters Two and Three , where this form is related to another verb in the sentence and thus provides a coherent explanation covering all the uses of both versions of the infinitive by means of a single principle of analysis . |
| 23 | This is a quiet coup for the Association of District Councils , which has been lobbying hard against the counties ever since the districts lost power to the counties in the 1974 reforms . |
| 24 | The reason for this lies in the fact that the physics depends neither on the states alone nor on the observables alone but upon their interrelation . |
| 25 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 26 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 27 | Those who trudged dutifully to the polls yesterday to mark their perforated ballot papers with an ‘ X ’ in the appropriate box , or who sat through last night 's results with only black coffee for company , would have witnessed a tableau of restrictive practices and old spanish customs fit to warm the heart of the most backward-looking member of Nalgo . |
| 28 | erm at the same time , the bones on the side of the skull got sort of gradually disappeared , so that when you clench your jaws there 's got somewhere for the muscles out to bulge out to , supposing you 've got big muscles . |
| 29 | Not round Havers , wh they park where those , those sort of shops are they they park all around the corners so that you have to go out round them . |
| 30 | It is customary for a Toraja girl who feels amorous to walk alone into the rice-paddies shortly before dawn or after sunset and begin screaming . |