Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anger that builds up characterizes the general pattern of interaction between the parent and child with the parent being erratic and inconsistent in reaction and the child being aggressive and difficult in order to gain attention and have his or her own way . |
| 2 | The freshmen , on Middlesex , were named after Foinavon , the 100-1 outsider that came through to win the National after most of the runners had fallen . |
| 3 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 4 | What one can be absolutely sure about is that giving up does the other side 's work for them , and ruins all your own possible futures and other people 's as well . |
| 5 | It 's not his spirit that 's doing it , it is the same person that the disciples spoke to when they walked the streets of Palestine , it is the same person that went around healing the sick , it is the same person that was born in the , in the manger at Bethlehem , he is now , after having died , been raised again by the power of the trying God had , he is now ascended back into heaven , in glorified form , and he is there interceding , representing you and me before his father there in heaven . |
| 6 | But you will not find any record that sets out to tell the chronological story to you . |
| 7 | Ulysses opens with the horrifying story of the blinding of the one-eyed Cyclops , told with gusto , and goes on to recount the many other dangers Ulysses faced during his 10-year voyage on the ‘ wine-dark sea ’ , trying to get home after the siege of Troy . |
| 8 | The southern equatorial current is diverted south , past the Solomon Islands , and goes on to bathe the Great Barrier Reef — and , indeed , much of the Australian coastline down past Sydney — in the tropical water of the east Australian current . |
| 9 | This legendary descent begins from the Grands Montets and goes down to join the lower part of the Vallee Blanche . |
| 10 | She tried not to even consider the soft swell of his expressive mouth , and gabbled on to break the tense atmosphere . |
| 11 | On reading such statements , would Ptolemy have seen the error of his ways , instantly recanted and toddled off to join the Copernican revolution ? |
| 12 | Instead of ignoring the Alamo and its small garrison , and pressing on to fight the main Texan army , Santa Anna decided to take the Alamo by storm . |
| 13 | But as she waited an obstinately persistent sound filled her head , drove itself from ear to ear , settled over her eyes and seeped through to fill the whole arena of her cranium . |
| 14 | He suddenly remembered Father Reynard 's corpse and stooped down to examine the leather-heeled boots of the assassins . |
| 15 | On the other hand , practices whose procedures are well organised and geared up to meet the new deadline will surely benefit from the new regime . |
| 16 | She left the cubicle to find a blood test kit , and came back to find the new houseman , Joe Reynolds , ordering head X-rays and a neurologist 's opinion . |
| 17 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 18 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 19 | He put the phone down and turned round to see the whole family looking at him , open-mouthed . |
| 20 | Switch to wavy bullets and go left , get over the blocker and jump up to shoot the fat creature . |
| 21 | Then he attached a rope to it and scuttered down to tie the other end on to the front axle of the Golf . |
| 22 | The whole army was then to advance on London , crossing the Thames to the west at Hampton Court , Kingston , Kew and Putney and moving round to occupy the northern heights of Hampstead and Highgate , to cut off London from relief from that direction . |
| 23 | They dropped their kedge anchor 200 yards offshore and settled down to await the first wave of assault craft . |
| 24 | In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space . |
| 25 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |
| 26 | We sketch briefly the legal definition of casual working and go on to consider the special features of certain business operations within the hotels and catering industry which explain why casual workers are to be found there . |
| 27 | The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party . |
| 28 | Renbourn emerged from the British folk scene in the sixties and went on to form the acclaimed acoustic group Pentangle , and also released a number of albums with Stefan Grossman following the demise of the band . |
| 29 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 30 | However , defending champion Lyons was in top form and went on to take the chequered flag for the second year running . |