Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I want to buy up all of the city , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 32 | Unix System Laboratories Inc is now alleging that Berkeley Software Design Inc , the start-up it 's suing for copyright infringement and misappropriating trade secrets ( UX No 392 , 396 , 413 ) , plagiarised Unix line-for-line in portions of its BSD/386 operating system and attempted to cover up some of the copying . |
| 33 | ( a ) some poems by Emily Dickinson , which you analyse ; ( b ) a bibliography ( list of books and articles ) , to find out what has been written by and on this poet ; ( c ) one or more critical articles on Emily Dickinson ; ( d ) a biography of the writer ; ( e ) a dictionary of symbolism , to look up some of the symbols she uses ; ( f ) a concordance to the works of Emily Dickinson ( this is a list of all the words she used , and where she used them ) . |
| 34 | Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns . |
| 35 | In non-metropolitan England , the nine largest former county boroughs , all with populations above 200,000 , began ‘ a campaign within two months of the new authorities taking over , to win back some of the powers they had lost to the counties ’ ( Alexander 1982b:64 ) . |
| 36 | To find the time of day , use a slip of white paper to blank out three of the discs . |
| 37 | Not the greatest of air travellers , the policeman had accepted Duncan 's offer to sit up front in the cockpit . |
| 38 | I am making the assumption that Kirov will be able to fill in some of the blanks once we come up with a workable number … probably no more than three . |
| 39 | Alvey had wanted the government to put up three-quarters of the total . |
| 40 | And I 've managed to do up two of the buttons at the back , but I ca n't reach the top two . |
| 41 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 42 | Nor is it suggested that the smallholder should revert to primitive subsistence living , although he may need to give up some of the consumer society 's more expensive luxuries . |
| 43 | Since universities had become relatively autonomous in 1863 , the authorities ' general attitude towards education seemed to indicate a readiness on their part to give up some of the prerogatives of the central bureaucracy . |
| 44 | Deciding to use up some of the time writing letters , Julia wondered how married women without either little children or work managed to fill their empty hours . |
| 45 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |
| 46 | The purpose of this chapter is to fill out certain of the areas of the study of crime which have been discussed or referred to in earlier chapters , and to provide readings or extracts from original sociological work in this field . |
| 47 | However , the governors were unwilling to leave out any of the head 's recommendations and they decided to treat them all as priorities . |
| 48 | Since I did love my father and regretted that our busy lives had separated us , the chance to look after him , to give back some of the love he had given me , was in many ways terrifically satisfying . |
| 49 | But Keith Fletcher , nursing a 2-0 defeat in his first Test series as England manager , was at pains to point out one of the root causes of the problems faced by Gooch 's side : the lack of dry , turning pitches in the County Championship . |
| 50 | Furthermore , water running down the outside of the Pertex helps to draw out some of the water that penetrated through to the Parameta.a The rest stays there and evaporates in the wind or trickles down between the layers . |
| 51 | In this chapter I have been concerned to draw out some of the implications for socialist politics of the analysis of capitalist property relations given earlier . |
| 52 | ‘ I used to carry out some of the jokes on my family , ’ says Jenny after serving one customer with a packet of exploding cigarettes . ’ |
| 53 | This new version of the file allows users to carry out some of the tasks normally done by File Manager without having to switch applications . |
| 54 | He saved his friend and I do n't know whether he managed to run down any of the gang . |
| 55 | An eleven foot rod may be too long in many instances and these are not the venues to lumber along loaded to the gunnels with tackle and bait . |
| 56 | When the aircraft reached its required altitude , somewhere over France , a rear crew member was asked by the Captain to switch off one of the pressurisation systems . |
| 57 | He shot a glance at Ellen , making sure that she had understood him as well as Thessy , then he looked at his watch and shouted for Bellybutton to start up one of the workboats . |
| 58 | Similarly , it becomes necessary to read back some of the concerns of the later 1970s about levels of spending into the reports which fed into the 1972 legislation ( for example , p. 243 ) . |
| 59 | For some reason it seemed to kick down some of the barrier of strangeness between them . |
| 60 | At the North of Australia are tropical rain forests which are very difficult for large communities to live in due to the heat , humidity and being unable to expand without the destruction of trees . |