Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] the [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thursday 's poll will bring down the curtain on the Campaign Sketch . |
| 2 | This time the ascension does not bring down the curtain on the life of Jesus ; instead , the curtain goes up on the life of the Church . |
| 3 | After a while , he said , ‘ Did you give up the job on the Council , then ? ’ |
| 4 | We must keep up the pressure on the lairds , the stream of meetings , so that we are all welded together , we feel our accumulated powers , day in day out . |
| 5 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |
| 6 | The large and thriving congregation was stunned by the Jesuits ’ sudden announcement , in March 1989 , that they were to close and sell off the church on the open market — ‘ for any reasonable use ’ , according the sale particulars . |
| 7 | The need for the Bill , which will tidy up the law on the legality of traffic-calming measures , is easy to see throughout the country . |
| 8 | " He would write up the result on the file later . |
| 9 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |