Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They sowed exotic grasses for their animals , built up the herds during the good years , when it rained , but then ( at least in some cases ) found that the grass was overgrazed in the drought years , when it failed to grow . |
| 32 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 33 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 34 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 35 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 36 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
| 37 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 38 | Tiny figures with wands of fire were milling about the canalside , hopping from boat to boat , their shadows leaping up the faces of the buildings on the other bank as the fleeting light caught them and threw them about . |
| 39 | Nor was it always clear on what basis the Principal Education Officer and Chief Inspector on occasions referred back the proposals of the project team . |
| 40 | But the popes of this Council , Julius II and Leo X , bore out the fears of the conciliarists . |
| 41 | 13 May — A Movement Accompaniment Day run by and , which will also include an opportunity to try out the machines in the Fitness Centre . |
| 42 | By way of reply , Connor walked across the room , drew back the bolts on the street door and flung it open . |
| 43 | In fact Labour governments ( in 1965 and 68 ) have been at pains to prove that they are just as good at keeping out the blacks as the Tories . |
| 44 | Spelling out the pitfalls at the conference , Ronald Cowles , who left British Coal last year , said major new mining developments would be opposed by residents and conservation groups and new businesses would be subject to stringent planning , environment and health and safety controls . |
| 45 | He reached into his desk drawer and drew out the copies of the contract , a trifle battered by yesterday 's violence , and tossed them across the desk towards her . |
| 46 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 47 | By singling out the Romans as the nation with which the Greeks had the greatest natural affinity , they pushed Celts and Carthaginians into a different category . |
| 48 | As Sir Bryan had predicted , the weather had sorted out the men from the boys and difficult pin placings had not been needed to tame the pros . |
| 49 | Finding out about test-tube fusion quickly becomes a cloak and dagger venture as desperate scientists and others resort to spying to find out the secrets in the Utah lab . |
| 50 | It is important to find out the regulations in the local authority concerned . |
| 51 | Make sure the quantity in the can or bottle is the same if you want to find out the units in the can or bottle you are drinking . |
| 52 | Someone had brought the adjustable lectern and set it up perfectly but not bothered to find out the heights of the speakers . |
| 53 | That is , according to false memory syndrome theorists , somehow the process of therapy , the process of disclosure , the process of interviewing people to find out the details of the abuse , somehow that constructs the abuse itself , somehow that 's erm the thing that 's that 's causing the memories . |
| 54 | Many passengers specially request to sit in the row of seats immediately behind the pilot , and you can see them checking out the instruments with the guide published in the airline 's in-flight magazine . |
| 55 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 56 | We are not going to enquire into the details how such beams can be produced ( it belongs to the subject of physical electronics ) ; we shall accept the fact that the beam exists and will try to work out the forces on the outermost electrons . |
| 57 | Pupils are not simply presented with rules ; instead they are required to think about the new language and are guided to work out the rules of the language themselves . |
| 58 | And having measured the alkalinity you can simply convert back to work out the concentrations of the carbonate and bicarbonate ions and from that you can calculate the P H using that relationship . |
| 59 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 60 | Even so eccentric a character as D. V. Karakozov , who attempted to assassinate Alexander II in 1866 , had gained direct experience while serving as an assistant to one of the peace arbiters appointed to work out the details of the Emancipation settlement . |