Example sentences of "[to-vb] holes in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy mechanical equipment was being used to punch holes in the structure that has divided the city for 28 years . |
| 2 | Men of genius — Dante , Leonardo , Milton , Blake , Turner , Wagner , for example — have attempted to punch holes in the box or to replace it by a stack of boxes . |
| 3 | AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists is using rockets to shoot holes in the aurora borealis in an attempt to ‘ turn off ’ the arctic Northern Lights . |
| 4 | It is almost impossible to pick holes in the Essex claim to be the best county side especially for three and four-day cricket . |
| 5 | ( a ) It 's a great opportunity to pick holes in the way the class is conducted . |
| 6 | President Clinton authorized the F B I 's tanks to bash holes in the walls , spray C S gas and fire in gas canisters . |
| 7 | No neither do I , just trying to wear holes in the carpet or something are we ? |
| 8 | Use a masonry drill to drill holes in the wall , and add wall plugs of the appropriate size |
| 9 | If you 're going to use screws , you 'll need to drill holes in the mirror ( unless it comes pre-drilled ) . |
| 10 | It pays to drill holes in the battens , for the nails which hold the panel to the posts , to avoid splitting . |
| 11 | You 'd have to drill holes in the wall . |
| 12 | And they needed to buy Dai Huang 's new hard bricks , because some malicious spirit had come one dark night to kick holes in the backs of the other , smaller kilns . |
| 13 | If you 're using delicate stems you may first have to make holes in the Oasis with a knitting needle . |
| 14 | Use a cocktail stick to make holes in the belt . |
| 15 | Carpenter bees use their saw-jaws to cut holes in the sides of flowers to get at the nectaries . |
| 16 | Then our mothers would be prevailed upon to loan metal meat skewers with which to bore holes in the centres of the conkers . |