Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time it was popular to suggest that reversals in the earth 's magnetic field , which we know to have been sudden , may have temporarily broken down the protective shield provided by the van Allen Belt against cosmic rays and so stimulated evolution by way of genetic mutation . |
| 2 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 3 | But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive . |
| 4 | Television offered either live coverage or by editing down the best moments presented a particularly dramatic version of events . |
| 5 | I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach . |
| 6 | But we were barely half-way before clouds crept down the high peaks to threaten us with rain or sleet . |
| 7 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 8 | The ‘ needles ’ that send out the negative ions clog up in time , reducing efficiency , so they also need regular cleaning ( use a cotton bud ) . |
| 9 | ( c ) Agreed price It is necessary to find out the precise price negotiated between the parties . |
| 10 | He tells us how he cried and cried when he found out the Almighty Mozzer had slung his hook and f—ed off home for a veggieburger . |
| 11 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 12 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |
| 13 | However , Cohen also carried out the same experiment using non-letter characters from a typewriter and obtained no consistent effect of set size in either visual half field . |
| 14 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 15 | Having established the position of the downpipe , some mathematics will be required to work out the correct height to fix the brackets . |
| 16 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 17 | You have to work out the right questions to find out what you want to know , see ? " |
| 18 | To do this enter +B1*B3*12 into B5 to calculate the total amount of money paid in and +B4-B5 into B6 to work out the total interest received . |
| 19 | In the light of the foregoing , an invitation to spell out the legal rules governing the treatment of the terminally ill must be regarded with some trepidation . |
| 20 | It is absolutely essential to ensure that , so long as the possibility of control or influence over the Russian republics remains , steps are taken to bring about a strategic arms reduction . |
| 21 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 22 | A great deal of pressure is then put on the social worker to act in the way the majority want , and not spend time listening to what the client wants . |
| 23 | ‘ Giles , Giles , ’ cried Liz , ‘ do n't shout so , it 's nearly the New Year , we ca n't bring in the New Year howling like wolves . ’ |
| 24 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 25 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 26 | Walk along the landscaped towpath to see the seven locks , two aqueducts , four bridges and canal basins at Aberdulais and Resolven . |
| 27 | But however different these patterns may be , key ideas will be repeated in each , and by the time you have written down the key words referring to your topic from half a dozen texts , you will be halfway to having the skeleton articulated . |
| 28 | A special unit set up to track down the missing money has now traced around three hundred million pounds — but there could still be a long legal battle to get some of it returned . |
| 29 | ‘ We hope over the five years to make a significant impact into solving the area 's many problems , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 30 | Inside , the surgeons , surrounded by dustbins filled with lopped-off limbs , did the best they could to patch up the ghastly wounds caused by the huge shell splinters . |