Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door . |
| 2 | Bronson will return to the role of Paul Kersey to take on the Mafia in the latest sequel to the vigilante saga . |
| 3 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
| 4 | The temptation to stay in town for a curry or a Schwarzenegger film , or both , can seriously disrupt that urge to carry on the journey up the 277 summits . |
| 5 | Fortunately , Britain takes on the presidency of the European Community on July 1 so the Prime Minister could convene a conference to rethink the Maastricht conclusions . |
| 6 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 7 | If my information is helpful to Eliot , who apparently has the energy to carry on the struggle against the new overlords , then he is welcome to it . |
| 8 | He said decisions were likely to be taken on the treaty in the New Year . |
| 9 | Although some doctors carry on the tradition of the medical profession in refusing to accept these ‘ outsiders ’ , more are now realising that osteopaths and chiropractors can relieve pain . |
| 10 | In 1988 T.R. Shipping took on the responsibility for the Rheintainer Line Agency in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | If this fails to hold the situation then review the case and see if there have been any changes or new information come to light that would enable you to select a more similar remedy which could carry on the work of the first remedy . |
| 12 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
| 13 | I sha n't take on the marchioness without the right weapons . " |
| 14 | In other words , whilst women , as it were , merely conducted the animal-like repetitive tasks of carrying on the reproduction of the human race , men , by one supreme symbolic act , imposed themselves upon nature and enacted a cultural rebirth . |
| 15 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 16 | A major chain of small grocery shops has taken on the might of the big wholesalers in a battle over the right to sell newspapers . |
| 17 | Such was the confidence of the little girl they used to call ‘ Shorty ’ at school that she was now considering taking on the might of the English legal system . |
| 18 | In their hands , structural anthropology and semiology took on the study of the structural form of meaningful systems . |
| 19 | There were excited exclamations at the sight of the returned Emily and they flocked round her desk to welcome her back and pass on the gossip of the preceding week . |
| 20 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 21 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |
| 22 | But religious language not only provided a link between different political constituencies , it offered a set of concepts , a rhetoric of resistance and a strength of moral certainty powerful enough to take on the weight of the medical and political establishment . |
| 23 | We have not only taken on the status of the older generation , we are beginning to look and behave that way too . |
| 24 | Or perhaps the teacher takes on the role of the Pied Piper and tells the class ( still as townspeople ) that they can write letters to their children ( out of role the teacher could suggest these might be in code ) ; the drama might focus on negotiations between the townspeople and the Pied Piper . |
| 25 | Well I do n't think you can expect the County Council and the structure plan authority to have an idea of where the allocations are going because that would be taking on the role of the local plan preparation authority . |
| 26 | Go left to the block marked 5 , and carry on the gem on the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 27 | ALAN SHEARER will this season take on the burden of the highest-priced player in Britain — and it could break him . |
| 28 | The sites where tree clumps now exist may have particular etheric qualities which encourage the growth of particular species or groups of species , so the natural and created landscape gradually takes on the form of the underlying pattern of energies . |
| 29 | Many were surprised when he and Sir Thomas Lee ( who later admitted to receiving money from the lord treasurer , Thomas , first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh , q.v. ) supported the government in February 1673 in its request for £1.2 million in order to carry on the war with the Dutch . |
| 30 | Just in time , she remembered to switch on the radio for the eight-thirty news on LBC . |