Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Select a straight board which is wider than the base and use it to tamp down the concrete … |
| 32 | The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back and demanded I pay off the overdraft at once . |
| 33 | A good technique is to have a flip chart or white board , divide it with a line down the middle and ask someone to write up the arguments for and against . |
| 34 | He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him . |
| 35 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 36 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 37 | Phil disappeared for twenty-four hours and had me ringing up the local police station . |
| 38 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 39 | The registers give the impression — in itself plausible — that Henry VII told his Council what he wanted and left it to work out the details . |
| 40 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 41 | ‘ Come with us and help us to beat back the Dark Ireland once again . ’ |
| 42 | Both measured around 6 x 8ft , and stood one propping up the other . |
| 43 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 44 | ‘ Let's go across the top of the hill and see them come out the other end of the tunnel , ’ Peter said to his sisters . |
| 45 | We used to run direct to Kirkwall via and erm it was then that the post office caught hold of us and wanted us to take on the mails . |
| 46 | Because he did n't think his player was coming over , Orville Moody 's caddie had taken Tom Weiskopf 's bag , but when he suddenly heard Orville was flying over , he ditched Tom and suggested I take over the bag . |
| 47 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 48 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 49 | The primary role for researchers should be to work alongside practitioners and help them understand not only what clients are saying but help them think through the nature and impact of their interventions . |
| 50 | But had anyone thought through the relationship between coal and rail ? |
| 51 | He gives us clues as to how to complete the jigsaw , but leaves us to fill in the missing pieces . |
| 52 | For instance aluminium costs 95% less in energy when recycles which cuts down the use of fossil fuels and reduces pollution . |