Example sentences of "[verb] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman . |
| 2 | Autumn had given the trees that extra golden lustre and the leaves that had already fallen lay round about the mourners , feet like a russet carpet . |
| 3 | The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way . |
| 4 | To play shuffle the cards and place face down in the centre of the |
| 5 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 6 | He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open . |
| 7 | I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath . |
| 8 | Will the Frys lay into me , send Vern off into the night , tell me I need my head examining making friends with that sort of boy ? |
| 9 | Yes I think that 's the sort of thing when you 're a defender the goalkeeper s the goalkeeper 's almost on it but if you 're not sure you get rid of the thing and then say turn round to the keeper sorry pall but I 'm playing safe . |
| 10 | He tried to pull Caspar back down the slope . |
| 11 | Tap ENTER only at the end of the last line . |
| 12 | Tell him it 's the sort of thing no woman would want let out of the bag . |
| 13 | He is an isolated figure in the Government because he is the first Minister whom I have heard speak highly of the work of the Cambridge school . |
| 14 | But put say like in the Body Shop and get a couple of animal soaps . |
| 15 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 16 | When we have a complete account of the brain , we are assured , consciousness will be intellectually transparent and the mind will assume its rightful place as just another part of ( physical ) nature , obedient to the laws that hold sway elsewhere in the material universe . |
| 17 | Birds are prominent on the tundra , especially in summer when migrant waders and waterfowl pour in from the south ; only a few species are year-round residents . |
| 18 | ‘ There can be no doubt that the obscenely violent films and videos now transmitted contribute greatly to the climate of violence for which a terrible price is now being paid , even the life of a two-year-old child , ’ she said . |
| 19 | I 'd come in in the middle of something . |
| 20 | He says Come down to the surgery in the morning . |
| 21 | When I cleaned it up , I found it to be in really good condition and one of the nicest I have ever seen come out of the river . |
| 22 | Tommy is pressed face up against the wall , arms handcuffed behind his back . |
| 23 | This card may be placed face up at the table edge or with the unit to indicate that it is affected . |
| 24 | And there , as he ( Tethra ) lay face down in the lee of an upturned boat , … he let his thinking catch up with him . |
| 25 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
| 26 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 27 | Poorly organised as were the French medical services , demand far outstripped supply almost throughout the war , but several times at Verdun the system threatened to break down altogether . |
| 28 | The methods used vary enormously with the type and depth of soil , the climate , and the crop to be grown . |
| 29 | Lie face down on the floor with your feet together and your hands shoulder width apart . |
| 30 | Lie face down on the floor with your hands touching in the small of the back and your legs straight out and together . |