Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 2 | I believe that Wales is much better placed to ride out the worldwide recession than it has been and I can give the hon. Gentleman this pledge : I and my ministerial colleagues will continue to do everything that we can to attract investment to Wales . |
| 3 | Hurrying to make up time , Manville had cut himself shaving , and the cluttered bathroom medicine cabinet had stubbornly refused to yield up the secret whereabouts of the styptic pencil . |
| 4 | She thought of Jonathan , but decided that she must have been too angry and hurt , because she could only manage to summon up the blurriest of images of him . |
| 5 | But if it is cold , a monarch can not work up the energy to fly and can only manage to crawl up the nearest sage brush . |
| 6 | The pursuit and creation of stars , for example , occupies a large part of the story that A Scott Berg has to tell : Goldwyn was constantly trying to sign up the human properties who would ensure the success of his pictures . |
| 7 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 8 | You only had to pay back the five per cent minimum each month . |
| 9 | ‘ We have to look to the future and I am sure that the unitary authorities will not want to pick up the massive debt charges on the castle , ’ he said . |
| 10 | A small battery-powered fan whirled the smoke away and generally tried to stir up the humid air which played such havoc with Ellen 's precious books in their orange-crate shelves . |
| 11 | Although advocates of the main parties are allowed to cross-examine other parties ' witnesses and the advocates are frequently barristers or solicitors , hearings are not as formal as a court of law and great effort is generally made to bring out the real substance of the layman 's arguments . |
| 12 | It is an exciting place to play golf , with plenty of water and long sandy wastes just waiting to gobble up the wayward shots . |
| 13 | He was laboriously attempting to sort out the financial details of the scheme he had put to Christian . |
| 14 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 15 | Chapter 8 can not claim to clear up the confusing array of approaches but it will offer some guidance , though with the definition of a national curriculum the role for the school in this is unclear . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're not going to get back the passing trade , ’ she explained . |
| 17 | But according to several Washington commentators and analysts , in sending senior aides to China , Mr Bush may have signalled that the Administration gave priority to continuity in relations over moral outrage , and thus helped to shore up the repressive Beijing regime . |
| 18 | ‘ You must all stay for supper , ’ you gaily cry ( not wishing to break up the unexpected party ) , and fling open the store cupboard . |
| 19 | Quite simply , refugee children , however gifted , were not encouraged to rise up the economic and social hierarchy . |
| 20 | The first , Parentline , allows parents to use their own homes as security for children who want to move , but can not afford to pay off the original loan first . |
| 21 | Even now British American Tobacco is desperately trying to fight off the predatory raid of James Goldsmith , Rothschild et al . |
| 22 | There was unrest in some twenty-six English and Welsh towns on 20 October , the day of George 's coronation , by which time the new monarch had already begun to turn out the old Tory ministers and replace them by Whigs . |
| 23 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 24 | THE US Secretary of State , Mr Jim Baker , yesterday sought to fend off the growing criticism of the new US initiative towards Beijing , arguing that the priorities were to prevent China from retreating further into isolation , and to show support for moderates in the government . |
| 25 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 26 | tyme out of mynde , when any deere of the said forrest … have commen into the said manor of Hackness … the Rangers , and other officers of the said forrest … have always used to fetch out the same with their houndes and to rechase them into the said Forrest . |
| 27 | SERB Premier Milan Panic yesterday vowed to shut down the Yugoslav torture camps within 30 days . |
| 28 | We always like to tie up the loose ends in this court . ’ |
| 29 | TAPPA ZUKIE 'S label always seems to bring out the best in Dennis Brown , and this gentle lilt through the miseries of ghetto life is Dennis ' best for a while . |
| 30 | The former Soviet republics are still trying to sort out the relative powers of executive and assembly . |