Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [art] roots " in BNC.
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| 1 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 2 | ‘ Worst of all , being pulled up by the roots — worse for me than for j[ack] ; for Leeborough has always been my base whereas his real home has been Hillsboro [ Mrs Moore 's rented house in Headington , Oxford ] far some years now . |
| 3 | Every winter large objects with large surface as get blown over ( or turn up by the roots ) . |
| 4 | It was hard to be torn up by the roots , to have his books , easels , prints and materials of study dragged from their places . |
| 5 | Political prudence and the dangers of a frontal attack on the Church restrained them to the sale of common lands and the abolition of civil entails , ‘ pulling up by the roots the tree which bears such bitter fruits ’ . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : You must be as flexible as the reed in the fable lest by resisting the tempest like the oak you be torn up by the roots . |
| 7 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 8 | The whole must be torn out by the roots . |
| 9 | Tearing my hair out by the roots . |
| 10 | Next , her long red hair was pulled so hard she felt as if it was going to come out by the roots . |