Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 2 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 3 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 4 | I phoned up the bank this morning . |
| 5 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 6 | Jumble up the shades cottage-garden style or choose a cool colour such as cream that will show up on dark wintry days . |
| 7 | We would not have known it was here , unless we had carried out the exercise last night . |
| 8 | This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup . |
| 9 | The home side 's West Indian professional George Ferris made the visitors struggle knocking back the stumps four times and taking five for 75 but Darlington won by four wickets . |
| 10 | Encapsulated in their nose-to-tail cars , stranded drivers read papers , picked their noses and talked to themselves , resigned to the rush-hour wait along the Chiswick High Road . |
| 11 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 12 | Returning to the Maison Caressa at Nice , he persuaded the factory which had turned down the project fifteen years earlier to manufacture " a certain quantity " of 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato according to his own specification . |
| 13 | Fears in the financial markets that government policy towards the pound was in disarray also drove down the currency 3.05 cents against the dollar to $1.5775 . |
| 14 | I turn right , and walk along the balcony that way , so I do n't pass in front of Jancey 's window . |
| 15 | They cut off the electricity last week . |
| 16 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 17 | After all , British taxpayers are picking up the £60 million bill and we ought to be told a lot more about why it happened and why so much damage was caused . |
| 18 | GGT 's string of new business wins continued this week with the agency picking up the Cussons personal care account . |
| 19 | As you improve , start to bring the action into your everyday life , such as when bringing the milk out from the fridge or when picking up the post each morning . |
| 20 | We were just picking up the malai national programme . |
| 21 | He says up the A one left at Catterick . |
| 22 | When they found her , on an estate in Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent another £68,000 — snapping up the house next door . |
| 23 | One of the big British cable-makers — BICC , GEC or STC — looks likely to pick up the £20 million order . |
| 24 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 25 | You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week . |
| 26 | John is quite a character and loves his role which includes shouting out the news four times a day . |
| 27 | How would you like to lead out the Merseyside Select XI at Goodison Park a week tomorrow when they take on the pride of Manchester in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial game ? |
| 28 | Daniel Digby , provost of the G-Mek Orbital , has issued a formal denial to allegations by Ayatollah Bakhtiar that fugitive graphic novelist Neil Gaiman has been in hiding in the facility , and has requested that the Pan-Islamic congress stand down the Inter-Satellite Ballistic Missiles currently targeted on them . |
| 29 | Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf , the successful commander of the allied forces in the war against Iraq , handed over the US Central Command to his successor , Lt.-Gen. |
| 30 | Ulster Branch president Nigel McCullough handed over the Harp Intermediate League trophy to first XI captain Ronnie Smith amid jubilant scenes at the club 's annual dinner in Portballintrae last night . |