Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the people coming in to shuffle through the little magazines , Zen Buddhism , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Nuttall , New Departures , Circuit , four letter words , and Indian music . |
| 2 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 3 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 4 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 5 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
| 6 | He went on looking at the disgusting bits . |
| 7 | ( Hu Yaobang and his family , for example , were allowed to carry on living in the privileged conditions of Zhongnanhai and Fang Lizhi was still allowed to travel abroad . ) |
| 8 | How much reflecting goes on depends upon the reflective capabilities of the child and also on the strength and direction of the beam which we , the adults , determine . |
| 9 | Having touched on the difficulties of the past year Mr Vernon went on to look at the remarkable successes : |
| 10 | Are we better off searching for the hidden opportunities or spotting the obvious ones early enough ? |
| 11 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 12 | Had B lost on the question of law in the Court of Appeal , it is practically inconceivable that the court would not have gone on to deal with the remaining points of appeal . |
| 13 | Local people , who never wanted the event to be held are angry that they could end up paying for the three-day police operation . |
| 14 | While volunteers could be relied upon to make life as comfortable for them as possible , there 's concern about whether the professional agencies are geared up to help with the deeper anxieties . |
| 15 | It was envisaged that teachers ' centres would be set up based on the three colleges and that these would combine in-service course work with active experimentation on new approaches . |
| 16 | Most people end up relying upon the colourful packets , tins and jars of commercial baby foods , which at least promise lots of vitamins and no longer have added salt , sugar , colours or artificial flavours . |
| 17 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 18 | Her long ginger hair tumbled to the floor ; her short white skirt rode up to hint at the delicious curves of her tender derriere . |
| 19 | I was allowed up to chatter with the older men about the good old days on Le Manche , when my grandfather had not only held serious philosophical and religious conversation with les pecheures over his loud hailer , but had also been in to Boulogne harbour as thanksgiving for a market or two in Hastings at needy times . |
| 20 | City Hall has clung to its paternalist traditions — which go far beyond the municipal norm in America — and has wound up enmeshed in the social problems of a city of 7.3m people in constant turmoil . |
| 21 | The photograph was taken in 1987 and shows and up and coming local athlete who went on to compete in the Olympic Games . |
| 22 | One or two sentences at your discretion to introduce the first prize winners who will go on to compete in the national finals in London on 16 March 1991 at the Natural History Museum . |
| 23 | The wage agreement produced some drift back to work in the following days , but the strike held steady in the Kuzbass , Donbass and Vorkuta . |
| 24 | Quickly an apartment block rose six storeys high around it , almost removing it from sight : passers-by could just make it out looking through the unglazed windows of the unfinished ground-floor flats . |
| 25 | She leant her painted face back to look at the two men standing at the sideboard , and it said much for George Banks who , turning to the old lady , said , ‘ I feel you would always be welcome in whatever company you choose , ma'am . ’ |
| 26 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 27 | Searchers were called out to look for the overdue hikers , and spotting their torches in the distance Alistair used his camera flash to attract their attention . |
| 28 | He did , however , come back to ride in the later races . |
| 29 | In the West African republic of Liberia where eighty five per cent of the population have been displaced , children , some as young as eight are being placed in secure compounds to prevent them from going back to fight for the waring factions . |
| 30 | Remember that even if the precinct appears brightly lit to the eye , your camcorder will probably be working flat out to expose for the wide shots . |