Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protesters have vowed to carry on the demonstrations despite the fact the tour has been given tacit approval by the African National Congress . |
| 2 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 3 | But for the interested amateur the travel companies offer trips which include opportunities to follow the grey whales of the San Ignacio Lagoon , view tigers in India , search for orchids and birds of paradise in Papua New Guinea , or track down the gorillas in the Mountains of the Moon . |
| 4 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 5 | AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease . |
| 6 | With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice . |
| 7 | The wind has varied for them between 20 and 40 knots and it has , in the main , blown from the west , allowing them sleigh rides down the faces of the big waves . |
| 8 | Most experts agree that restoring the balance would entail a massive engineering project drawing down the levels of the reservoirs to below that of the dams to enable young fish to reach the sea quicker . |
| 9 | No more than forty-nine names on a paper , or the Deputy-Lieutenants will infer a gathering of illegal size and bring in the soldiers under the Riot Act . |
| 10 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 11 | Sometimes actually bringing in the agencies of the law may be like pouring oil on a fire rather than pouring water on a fire . |
| 12 | Barefooted and bare-armed , she was bringing in the cows from the fields for milling . |
| 13 | No longer did they have to go down the backstairs during the night , and into the yard and across it to where the three outdoor lavatories stood . |
| 14 | I do n't want 'em mowing down the tents in the dark . ’ |
| 15 | Byrne argues that the greater disparities in income result from a combination of a laissez faire approach to the wages of the more highly paid and a deliberate policy of ‘ driving down the wages of the lower paid ’ . |
| 16 | He broke eye-contact , lifting his glass to his mouth , throwing his head back and tossing down the contents of the glass with one smooth action . |
| 17 | Vultures fly down the ceilings into the depths of the tombs . |
| 18 | In Bright Angel the heat is intense and cacti with red and yellow flowers grow along the sides of the trail among great sheared-off blocks of stone . |
| 19 | For example , you are often asked to write down the numbers of the questions answered in the order in which they are attempted . |
| 20 | Between them , they can track down the whereabouts of the caller . |
| 21 | The rioters killed many deer , and threatened to pull down the palings of the park , so that the Earl of Holland , as Chief Justice of the Forest , obtained authority for the sheriff of Berkshire to raise the power of the county to apprehend the rioters . |
| 22 | As Tory MPs mull over the changes during the ten-day Whitsun recess , they are still likely to feel buffeted rather than reassured . |
| 23 | But they gloss over the ambiguities in the concept of the subject which underlie these difficulties . |
| 24 | In what he called ‘ a new architecture for a new era ’ , Mr Baker outlined closer co-operation between Western Europe and the US which would bind the West closer together while at the same time ‘ opening up the doors to the East ’ . |
| 25 | Three words to sum up the feelings of the Hereford fans on Saturday . |
| 26 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 27 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 28 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 29 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 30 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |