Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 2 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 3 | Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running . |
| 4 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 5 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 6 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 7 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 8 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
| 9 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 10 | There were even police standing in the wings ready to cart everybody off to the nearest station should the forbidden line be recited . |
| 11 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 12 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 13 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 14 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |
| 15 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 16 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 17 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 18 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 19 | They might fear you , hate you , and try to exorcise you back into the fifth dimension , but they accept you for what you are . |
| 20 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 21 | He was trying to win her back from the greedy black hole — to release her from its iron grip and return her to the safety of the study . |
| 22 | Someone had laid out knee-high duckboards to cross the snow , and Lucenzo shot out an imperious hand to help her on to the low platform . |
| 23 | Eager for the haven of her hotel room , Luce allowed Michele to help her on to the deserted fondamenta . |
| 24 | When he had dumped their two canvas bags on the ground , he reached up again to help her down from the high train . |
| 25 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 26 | It 's back in its box now , but it 's still pretty big — so I have to stick it in with the dirty washing . |
| 27 | Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated . |
| 28 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 29 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 30 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |