Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 2 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 3 | Three hundred and forty years later , in 1918 , the National Education Association and the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools , in the United States , approved the so-called Certain Standards ( named after the chairman of its working party , Carl Caspar Certain ) which laid down the first standard specifications for a secondary school library . |
| 4 | She uncurled her legs , determinedly smoothed down the neat white culottes , and stood up . |
| 5 | Methodism had broken down the old geographical barriers so that now nearly all areas had their Nonconformists . |
| 6 | Get rid of the pensioners : bring in the fit young props reared on body-fat callipers , VO2 max and three Weetabix for breakfast . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
| 8 | While Piłsudski was to accuse the KPP of undoing his own hard work as military leader and of trying to dismember Poland by ‘ Trojan horse methods ’ , Moscow decided to rein in the free-thinking Polish socialists . |
| 9 | An austerity programme begun in September 1988 was beginning to bite , raising fears that Peking would try to rein in the independent-minded southern provinces . |
| 10 | Behind the beautifully restored façades of the buildings with their smart paint and gabled roofs there was evidence of a rich and varied culture , Gina observed , walking down the crowded cobbled pathway where restaurants and cafés spilled out towards the water 's edge . |
| 11 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 12 | Those lips , which had so recently roved over Jaq 's body , now sucked in the slithery tough stuff of the hydra with the same seeming hunger . |
| 13 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 14 | Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English . |
| 15 | writes down the immediate short term objective which has to be achieved ; |
| 16 | Make a second list of other pieces you think you would like when you can afford them , say over the next five years or so . |
| 17 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 18 | Peel off the tough outer skin of the silk squash , or top and tail the courgettes . |
| 19 | A different approach is to inhibit the hormone which starts off the female sexual cycle . |
| 20 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 21 | The Junkers , predictably , wanted none of this and their interests in the government , civil service and the military persuaded the government to continue shoring up the ailing Ost-Elbian estate system through continued tariff protection , artificially high grain prices and a policy of grants and loans . |
| 22 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 23 | The drawing , along with various sketches of joints and fixings was sent to the church architects whose only alteration was to square up the curved top member to line up with the bottom panels . |
| 24 | Accordingly , in the autumn of 1870 , under the new title " Tragedy and the Freethinkers " , he drew up the first main plan whose scope , in both space and time , went substantially beyond Greece . |
| 25 | In an article entitled ‘ Quand le Symbolisme fut mort ’ which appeared in Nord-Sud in 1917 , Paul Dermée attempted to sum up the new aesthetic trends . |
| 26 | She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story . |
| 27 | Then I went below and got a handkerchief and helped Hands tie up the great bleeding wound in his leg . |
| 28 | Keeping up the good old traditions . |
| 29 | Today , Doddy heads up the 400-strong PTGI company , an agency which makes available Guinness throughout the country , from small road-side stalls to large supermarkets , from luxury hotels to more downmarket bars . |
| 30 | He moved up the tricky little wall ( the technical crux ) to the roof , and draped a thick sling over the huge pointed spike known as the Cheeseblock . |