Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | l he vehicles entered the western end of this northern bay , and the coach body was lifted off its bogies and placed on moving carriers , the wheels removed from the bogies , the bogies then also placed on carriers parallel with its body and moved alongside it through the shop at the same pace , that of one vehicle every forty minutes . |
| 2 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 3 | While you are fishing , keep an eye on what 's happening near you on the river . |
| 4 | Er those things should include well something about the box erm next next day or whatever I can find . |
| 5 | I do indeed think that we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus , since the early Christian sources show no interest in either , are moreover fragmentary and often legendary . |
| 6 | Robert Beale , Clerk to the Privy Council , insisting that the Secretary must know almost everything about the affairs of England and her neighbours , recommended that the essential material be stored in ten or twelve great books : one would contain treaties ; another would list recusants ; a third would deal with the Councils in the Marches and in the North ; and so on . |
| 7 | Life , as it is lived in classrooms and on the terraces , has almost none of the characteristics of anarchy and impulsiveness that are often attributed to it . |
| 8 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 9 | ’ A particularly poisonous little girl might sting me into saying , ‘ Fiona has the same glacial beauty as an iceberg , but unlike the iceberg she has absolutely nothing below the surface . ’ |
| 10 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 11 | The organisation should bring together everyone from the musicians working at grassroots level to established businesses , and also involve decision-making bodies like Liverpool City Council and City Challenge . |
| 12 | hammocked above you on the luggage rack |
| 13 | Francis Bacon , well known for his capacity to drink nearly everyone under the table , left his friend John Edward , a son of a publican , £10 million in his will , which was published last month |
| 14 | The rain was so bad last night that no one went out and we ate almost everything in the warren . " |
| 15 | I now have the confidence to tackle almost anything in the kitchen , pies , pastas , cakes , soups , meat dishes , vegetables and bread . |
| 16 | Dexter explained how he was wavering about the list of suspects : one moment thinking it consisted of only a handful of people and then believing almost anyone in the building could have done it . |
| 17 | In fact you can do almost anything with the walls of a dining room . |
| 18 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 19 | Uncle Ted had done absolutely nothing since the day Dad exorcized him as he sat with a record-player in his lap . |
| 20 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 21 | He eyed the sword-point warily before peering past it to the body on the floor . |
| 22 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 23 | Or does he refuse to go near it for the rest of the session and become unsettled ? |
| 24 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 25 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 26 | Erm , where you might use P S P , is when you 've got a client now , who 's anticipated buying perhaps something in the future . |
| 27 | In the village he had noticed an old crumbling building with the word ‘ SCHOOL ’ outside it , and he had seen children a little younger than himself disappear inside it in the mornings then reappear sometime in the afternoon . |
| 28 | So I asked them in the lodge like do n't do any damage and Tom was in e he gave them a good lecture so and the lads in the lodge said , Well look you tell them as well not to do this attitude and perhaps you 've seen it on these flumes when they saw a crowd that was there they were changing gear with the Land Rover and through you know like anybody in the way you 'd be underneath . |
| 29 | We know hardly anything of the details of this ; once again , our ignorance is fundamental . |
| 30 | The West Indian Commission 's report ( like practically everything in the Americas ) should be ready for the Columbus quincentenary parties in 1992 . |