Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 2 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 3 | They will crack their heads on the low door frame and be forced to stand bent forwards beneath the slope of the ceiling in attitudes of unsuitable humility . |
| 4 | The parties intended to remain bound even after the independence of Poland . |
| 5 | The works production shops were to remain laid out in the form described for progressive building and repairing , only marginally altering over the years to accommodate new designs and techniques , such as the Stanier all steel body panelling design of the early 1930s . |
| 6 | The local VATman 's refusal to budge clashed directly with the work of Baroness Denton , the government 's small firms minister at the Board of of Trade . |
| 7 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 8 | Celia kept slipping and Liza kept telling herself she was ridiculous to have given in to the child . |
| 9 | It is known that he wished to stay in the Government and would have liked to have pressed on with the reform of prisons . |
| 10 | Fortunately , Luke 's anger seemed to have evaporated along with the steam that surrounded them . |
| 11 | And although followed diligently by Mr Jones along many a fascinating track he seems to have won out in the end and disappeared from view . |
| 12 | BAe 's stockbroker , Hoare Govett , was in the market again yesterday but is not believed to have added significantly to the stake . |
| 13 | I suggest that the Secretary of State take a little time to read our new document , ’ London : a strategy for transport ’ , which might help him and his colleagues to get sorted out on the need for better transport in the capital city . |
| 14 | Beringed hands waved in a frenzy around Miranda 's own boldly streaked , mane-like hair , and Belinda quickly paid and left , realising she had been very lucky to get squeezed in at the salon when so many women wanted to look special for Christmas . |
| 15 | Parti-coloured hose with cap and bells were not worn until the Middle Ages , and , fetching though Jilly 's wimple is , she 's going to get caught up in the blackberry bushes before the day is out . |
| 16 | Such an experience may be demoralising if you 're unlucky to get caught up in the tangle . |
| 17 | PLAYER : It costs little to watch , and little more if you happen to get caught up in the action , if that 's your taste and times being what they are . |
| 18 | Slicker though Swansea were , Harlequins gained more than enough possession through their dominance at the line-out and the innumerable penalties to have expected more from the game — certainly New Zealand 's All Blacks will drive a far harder bargain when they play Swansea on 21 October . |
| 19 | The only problem is whether everything is going to get sucked down in the process . |
| 20 | We used to get mixed up with the fight . |
| 21 | In the main , they both consisted of boys and young men who were rather more reluctant to join in the ritual chanting and singing and were even less keen to get mixed up in the aggro . |
| 22 | The secret is not to get carried away with the yumminess of it all and order too much . |
| 23 | It 's all too easy to get carried away with the business of everyday life , and to put your own requirements tot he bottom of the pile . |
| 24 | MARTIN PIPE was last night refusing to get carried away about the Gold Cup prospects of Rushing Wild . |
| 25 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 26 | Take that form literally and there is only one winner on Saturday as Bonanza Boy is bound to have come on for the outing . |
| 27 | But any ( unmoving ) object placed between the half-silvered mirror and the screen will now occupy a larger area of the image and therefore appear either to have grown larger , as if swelling , or to have come closer to the camera , even though it has not actually moved at all . |
| 28 | In the sixth century they were said to have come originally from the island of Scandza , to have migrated to the Black Sea , and thence to have come into contact with the Roman Empire . |
| 29 | One of the most important results to have come out of the work is the demonstration that similar molecular those in other larger and more conventionally studied organisms . |
| 30 | ‘ He seems to have come out of the race very well , but we 'll know how well by next week , ’ said Francois Boutin . |