Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 2 | I dance round the kitchen table , twirling the hat on my hand , so that the ribbons fly out behind it . |
| 3 | Yeah , does that mean er whenever I send out the application fee of two hundred and fifty pounds some months ago , er did we get that back or do we get it back ? |
| 4 | I walk round the room sort of smiling and sometimes waving or stopping to talk to someone . |
| 5 | I let down the tow rope . |
| 6 | I let off the snow hook , Rayo heads for the tree , Kaisa leaps out of the way , Sunniva follows her round and it 's back to knitting in seconds . |
| 7 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 8 | I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot . |
| 9 | I pass over the Stone Bridge virtually every day and the view is one of the utmost squalor . |
| 10 | I 've got mine back on , but it wo n't be long when I get out the bus mind , but |
| 11 | However , as soon as I drive off the temperature gauge falls to cold and the fuel gauge reads about half what is in the tank . |
| 12 | From the rattles and clunks it 's difficult to tell what 's happening , but I switch on the cassette recorder in case . |
| 13 | But if you 'd wait until I switch on the hall light … ’ |
| 14 | Sitting on my unused bed , swigging room service orange juice , I switch on the Rosenbloom show . |
| 15 | Do you mind if I turn down the gas fire ? ’ |
| 16 | I turn out the reading light , and the grill glows warmly . |
| 17 | Yes , you 've got to have a certain degree of structure in it and that happens I think through the parish council in a number of the key areas , but you have got to retain a degree of flexibility , otherwise you will just stifle initiative , you 'll stifle growing issues that happen . |
| 18 | as I puzzle over the Manchester street-plan , |
| 19 | And I play on the mountains and I slide down the slag heap . ’ |
| 20 | It was n't the only operation that went into the shredder at that time — you could figure that for yourself So Arnie went to London and closed it off wiped our prints off everything and I shut down the Langley end . |
| 21 | I reach over the palletwood fence and pour water from the long spout into his half-empty ice cream tub , then straighten and stare at the huge , inert body , my mind searching for an excuse to proceed beyond the shed . |
| 22 | A new room for the study of the 7,000-or-so drawings and 27,000 prints which make up the Courtauld collection will make these works widely available for the first time . |
| 23 | Senior representatives of Lothian Regional Council , Edinburgh District Council and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited , which make up the Edinburgh Partnership , will join to explain why Edinburgh should be the location for the gallery . |
| 24 | To understand the nature of state power , it is necessary first of all to distinguish , and then to relate , the various elements which make up the state system . |
| 25 | The two hydrogen atoms and the one oxygen atom which make up the water molecule form strong covalent bonds ( Figure 7 , p.102 ) . |
| 26 | A technique using ordinary sausage skins is being employed to restore the 700 parchment rolls of documents dating from 1275 which make up the Wakefield Manor Court archive , now owned by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society . |
| 27 | The suggested group contributions are shown in table 8.3 and the solubility parameter for a polymer can be estimated from the sum of the various molar attraction constants F for the groups which make up the repeat unit i.e. |
| 28 | In this case , it is the PACKAGE binary itself , not the source modules which make up the package binary , which is required . |
| 29 | Because programs can store any segment of any letter , this process is far less laborious than it once was , though it still took around three months for the nine fonts which make up the Ecotype family . |
| 30 | The companies which make up the P&O Group operate in a wide variety of fields on a world-wide basis . |