Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 2 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 3 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 4 | Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat . |
| 5 | He got down off the cart to pick a leaf from a roadside bush , and hoisting himself back into his seat resumed his journey , sucking on the leaf as he started to explain . |
| 6 | It was the home side who took the lead in the twenty sixth minute when Doug Taylor beat Brian House on the right wing , put in a low cross and Pedro Herbert crept in behind the defence to score . |
| 7 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 8 | Dyson let the clutch in with a belated jerk which brought some hard and heavy object tumbling down from the dashboard to hit Bill Waddy on the knee and roll away out of sight beneath the front seats . |
| 9 | First , the esters procaine and centrophenoxine are immediately broken down in the body to release their DEAE and DMAE , which are the active portions of the molecules . |
| 10 | Stepping down off the chair to pick it up , so did I , and I got stuck . |
| 11 | It was a large , grassy paddock , wired in over the top to stop the high-climbing cats from escaping . |
| 12 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 13 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 14 | He was then required to go down to the ranges to practise shooting with the 9 mm pistol . |
| 15 | There is one ray of hope — one member of the rescue team , himself an experienced caver , is a Casualty consultant from Suffolk who has volunteered to go down with the party to provide immediate medical assistance to the injured man . |
| 16 | In mid-afternoon , Joseph rode down from the lines to organise the packing of the lodges , but , Yellow Wolf recalled : ‘ The women , not knowing the warriors were disagreeing , quitting the fight , had no time to pack the camp . |
| 17 | We moved on across the island to see the kittiwakes ' colony and yet more puffins , this time with beakfulls of fish returning to their nesting burrows . |
| 18 | Jonathan Russell , 27 , fell after climbing on to the battlements to take photographs . |
| 19 | But by March that year the Chiefs of Staff were recording a victory for their view of the Middle East , and were arguing that this implied that Britain must hang on to the right to return to bases in Egypt , even in the absence of agreement . |
| 20 | Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution . |
| 21 | Mr Thomas stressed that this is the area that WACC-Asia needs to concentrate on in the months to come . |
| 22 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |
| 23 | That night , walking down to the lodge to do her shift , she was surprised to see Matthew deep in discussion with two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police . |
| 24 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 25 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 26 | Surrounding us on the beach were a large number of French civilians who had come down to the beach to look at the British Tommies . |
| 27 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 28 | He had come down to the island to make sure all was well while his grandfather was in hospital . |
| 29 | The volatility of the Cusqueños coupled with the increasing pressure among them of poor campesinos who had come down from the Andes to seek a better life stood in ironic contrast to the rigid panoply of the state ; a situation brought home to me on Easter Sunday . |
| 30 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |