Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 4 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , also expressed a preference for consultants who took responsibility for all parts of the search , bringing in the business in the first place and the , closely supervising the research . |
| 5 | I do n't want 'em mowing down the tents in the dark . ’ |
| 6 | But they gloss over the ambiguities in the concept of the subject which underlie these difficulties . |
| 7 | How large were the , were the classes with these influx of all these , di did it boost up the numbers in the ? |
| 8 | Top up the level in the bucket to five gallons with cold water . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 11 | Dreyfus built up the business in the face of fierce competition and the company won a well deserved place in the aniline field , which lasted for over 90 years . |
| 12 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 15 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 16 | 13 May — A Movement Accompaniment Day run by and , which will also include an opportunity to try out the machines in the Fitness Centre . |
| 17 | Her smooth clean hands would one day reach out , one to take Rosa 's face gently by the chin , while the other smoothed her hair , and her eyelids would drop in assent : Mary had gone against the grain , against the world , against custom , thought Rosa , as she dipped in the hook , looped the stitch , drew out the thread in the dark room . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is important to find out the regulations in the local authority concerned . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was walking just ahead of her now , checking out the trail in the darkness . |
| 22 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 23 | Knotting on the matching pareo , she made a mental note to telephone them as soon as she collected her wits enough to work out the time in the UK . |
| 24 | ‘ I have seen other drivers race around the barriers in the past . |
| 25 | ‘ No , ’ said Harry , already in his mind scrambling down the rocks in the dark to Severnside . |
| 26 | Richie Daly had sailed down the Mersey in the same convoy as Gerry and now he was home . |
| 27 | Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients . |
| 28 | However things turn out , try to reflect the mood of the scene by the pace of the cutting of your shots : if the children are quiet and thoughtful , the shots can be held a little longer than if they are lively and excited ( provided that the adult does a good job of filling in the gaps in the action ) . |
| 29 | A multi-form index facility is provided to allow the expert user to move quickly between fields , filling in the data in the desired order . |
| 30 | It said 60 anti-guerrilla units cut down the plants in the indigenous area of Aponte in El Tablon , more than 460km ( 312 miles ) southwest of Bogota , at the weekend . |