Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the current European Communities-European Free Trade Area negotiations [ see p. 37906 ] , the programme avoided ruling out the possibility of an eventual application for EC membership . |
| 2 | These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable . |
| 3 | Now as he comes out of the roundabout he starts overtaking down the offside of those vehicles . |
| 4 | After that , you can expect Leeds mail to come surging down the wires to your computer every day of the week , and aim to join in the talk whenever you can . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Yanto continued , ‘ Selwyn starts pulling out the bucket from under me . |
| 6 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 7 | But Charlton said : ‘ I ca n't consider watering down the team for Lithuania in anticipation of Spain . |
| 8 | It has been self-consciously policy-oriented and has fed directly into the political debate with a series of prescriptions which involve cutting back the activities of the state and changing the nature of democracy in Britain . |
| 9 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 10 | Passey and Melosh suggest taking on the basis of their investigations of crater fields . |
| 11 | The trust should consider appointing out the assets to , say , X 's children so at least they have an argument that they ( X 's children ) can have the losses under TCGA 1992 , s71(2) . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll give 'im a bleedin' thick earole in a minute , ’ Otley would mutter rolling up the sleeves of his frilly , dancing shirt . |
| 13 | Dyson set Morris to work copying out the extracts for the ‘ In Years Gone By ’ column . |
| 14 | We have been offered a pot-pourri of amendments — some favour London , some favour London and the south-east and others suggest carving up the country into all sorts of different regions . |
| 15 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 16 | Not only does Buffon try to relegate the pleasure of watching kittens at play to the level of a childish amusement , but he also suggests that this play is malicious because it involves acting out the killing of prey — the very skill for which mankind domesticated the cat in the first place . |
| 17 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 18 | Indeed , the pattern of research work in the humanities and social sciences is such that perhaps the only generalisation which can be made is that no article or book is written using only the resources of one library , still less the home library of a researcher 's institution . |
| 19 | Fewer birds are involved than in spring , but up to 75 have been seen passing down the Channel in a day , and once 200 ( 19 November 1972 , Selsey Bill ) . |
| 20 | Mr Scott says turning back the clock to when Thornaby had its own town council , salaried professional officers and support services is no longer credible . |
| 21 | The intervention is extraordinary , and to think of it otherwise risks ignoring how the interest of the play lies in the psychological , in the testing of our sympathy and understanding of the Macbeths . |
| 22 | Connon came trotting up the pavement towards her . |
| 23 | And a cinnamon and blue nuthatch had been seen creeping up the trunk of a tree towards its mud-patched nesting hole , giving one lad a splendid chance to try out his new birthday present telescope . |
| 24 | Tactical planning is shorter term and involves deciding how the resources of the organization shall be used to help reach its individual strategic goals . |
| 25 | It simply intends contracting out the printing of its newspaper , which occupies a very small part of the work undertaken by the department . |
| 26 | Fawley power station , which supplies electricity to the National Grid , operated at reduced capacity to avoid sucking up the oil in its water cooling system . |
| 27 | But since the marriage split was announced in March , he has carefully avoided seeking out the company of other women , and has concentrated instead on seeing as much of his children as possible . |
| 28 | Employers wishing to hire foreigners would have to have permission from the local labour exchange , if they wished to avoid paying twice the value of the wage into the employment fund . |
| 29 | ‘ I can remember going down the Speakeasy with The Clash to look for models to give us cocaine and blow jobs . |
| 30 | Then she had to imagine switching on the light in that cupboard under the stairs and taking a couple of steps forward so that she was just inside — but with the door open to the hall and with the knowledge that she only had to take a single large step back to be out there again . |