Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to form [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , in these last few days , he had watched its golden leaves fluttering down to form a glowing carpet at its foot , as the autumn winds tossed the great boughs this way and that . |
| 2 | Er they tend to be more sophisticated and slimmer and nice looking , but we have quite a few craftsmen around now , no blacksmiths as such , but even in the old days er you had rather cheaper versions made with wooden handles and just a nice piece of light Tinwooey bent over to form the board , the mould board and that . |
| 3 | The soldiers bent over to form the arches but they were no good as they kept moving all over the place and there seemed to be no rules or sense of order to the game . |
| 4 | Nationalisation saw the basic pattern retained , although the Scottish elements of the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern Railways were hived off to form a Scottish Region , and the North East based on York also became a separate region . |
| 5 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 6 | Build up to form a frame for the russet chrysanthemums |
| 7 | If we consider sources of stress as ‘ stressors ’ which build up to form a number of pressures , then it becomes possible to identify where stress is coming from and what it can ultimately lead us to . |
| 8 | The floaty , translucent , viscose jacket costs £195 ; the gathered skirt , with its lycra waistband which can be rolled up to form a strapless dress , is £169 , and the long overtop costs £105 . |
| 9 | Suppose that rectangular Cartesian coordinates are drawn to cover a rectangular sheet of paper and it is then rolled up to form a cylinder . |
| 10 | German companies rallied round to form a holding company just to buy Daimler shares . |
| 11 | The other buses were either spread out in their running time or cut down to form the evening frequency which was less than what it was during the peak time and so I , you know , I 'd , I 'd left it at then , when I went in the forces then , he carried on . |
| 12 | Tip in the rubble or ballast and tamp down to form a firm base , leaving sufficient depth for mortar and slabs |
| 13 | Its flat-coiled shell was not completely filled with flesh as is that of a snail , but had a hinder end walled off to form a gas chamber . |
| 14 | Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev . |
| 15 | A child may be able to count the five ducks but have to recount if they are moved round to form a different pattern . |
| 16 | Some-times the ‘ spiritual people ’ have reacted against the institutional church of their day , and broken off to form a ‘ pure church ’ consisting of themselves and likeminded friends and before long this new church has usually become as encrusted with barnacles as the one from which they broke away . |
| 17 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 18 | The edge of the toga was drawn up to form a loop of cloth ( umbo ) by the waist . |
| 19 | The undersides link up to form an arch while the uppersides are cut to appear as pierced circles . |
| 20 | Market-leading local insurers , known for their commitment to SWISS LIFE 's high standards , link up to form the world 's largest and most efficient insurance Network . |
| 21 | If the flow rate should increase for any reason , the lava may burst out over the levees , flooding out to form a new branch of the main flow , and this ‘ break out ’ will itself rapidly become established between levees . |
| 22 | If you run It backward you will see the pieces suddenly gather themselves together off the floor and jump back to form a whole cup on the table . |
| 23 | Layers of spheres in the square formation can build up to form the body-centred cubic structure . |
| 24 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 25 | The real damage , when a fish shows these tufts , is taking place within its body tissues , which are being digested down to form a nutrient , enabling the branched filaments to spread . |
| 26 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |
| 27 | The is the point where the cliff swings round to form the dramatic and much less amenable territory of the south face — home to a number of spectacular routes . |
| 28 | The stalk is constricted from the basal region which is pressed out to form a disc . |
| 29 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 30 | ( c ) Stones , bedded on mortar , are then laid down to form the watercourse . |