Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 2 | It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief . |
| 3 | When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape . |
| 4 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 5 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 6 | Women must either follow the male career route and spend little time with their children , or drop out for the vital middle years that filter out the top managers . |
| 7 | IF YOU want to know what books are in the library or find out about the latest reports on new topics , you can now do this without leaving the comfort of your office . |
| 8 | It is possible to take a difficult route back to the line almost immediately , or go on to the next farm and follow a track there . |
| 9 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 10 | ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system . |
| 11 | If you can help please telephone DAD on Darlington or call in at the local office at the Friends Meeting House , 6 Skinnergate , Darlington . |
| 12 | The appeal raises important and , to our minds , difficult questions of principle regarding the right of a mortgagor on the taking of a mortgage account to object to the level of costs , charges and expenses which the mortgagee claims to be entitled to charge against or retain out of the mortgaged property . |
| 13 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |
| 14 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 15 | The next chapter considers the specific question of the CNAA 's relationships with its associated institutions , and the policy pressures operating from and towards the Council , and carries that account through to the 1980s . |
| 16 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 17 | It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet . |
| 18 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 19 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 20 | The baby has gone past the sell-by date given by the hospital , but there is not a lot I can do except dig in on the front-line . |
| 21 | It would act , for example , as a general mechanism to wipe out those that end up in the wrong place , say after a cut mixes cells between different layers of skin . |
| 22 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |
| 23 | Is it not time to put an end to the fraud and corruption that go on within the European Community , as evidenced by the continual reports of the European Court of Auditors ? |
| 24 | it 's all these odd ideas that go around in the barbaric south that 's the trouble ! |
| 25 | Classically one or other of these things happens to all the marbles that start out at the same speed ; either they all get over or they all fall back . |
| 26 | Weekend Break , September 16–19 , Falcarragh , Donegal Re-establishing paths that date back to the 1730s . |
| 27 | The accounts of our abnormality that arise out of the theoretical perspectives of individual psychology and of non-materialist social psychology are rejected on the grounds of their incoherency , and their ideological nature is indicated . |
| 28 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 29 | The sun stirs up the winds ; the winds suck up the swells ; the swells pump out waves that trip up against the jutting kerbs of the land . |
| 30 | ‘ There do your kind fly , Slorne , soaring on the winds that rise up from the hot land , circling over their sites as they seek their prey of mammal and carrion , or chase a black-winged kite from off their food … ’ |