Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure whether practical , i.e. using a soldering iron , construction projects , are within Practical PC 's scope and readership but if readers are interested why not write in and sway the editorial decisions ! |
| 3 | ‘ You know well enough , James — you must have thought — once the government is resolved , and we have talked ourselves hoarse and there is no ink left in the country — then the dragoons will come in and cart the young men away as though we have done nothing . |
| 4 | The financiers may be willing to step in and provide the requisite guarantees , though at a cost . |
| 5 | Was their purpose to debar wheeled vehicles from a congested part of the village , or to slow down and reduce the destructive effects of runoff during torrential rainstorms ? |
| 6 | Let the hall fall down and let the so-called experts quarrel elsewhere . |
| 7 | Anxiety is like a smouldering fire , a wind can come along and ignite the glowing embers . |
| 8 | We will enable tenants to apply for Housing Action Trusts to take over and improve the worst estates . |
| 9 | The Council had been insisted upon by the Benelux countries which , notwithstanding their strong commitment to the cause of integration , wanted a body whose purpose would be to watch over and defend the national interests of the smaller participants . |
| 10 | Fenella was trying to be very patient , because it was not in the least unreasonable of Caspar to want to go on and leave the Dark Workshops as far behind them as possible . |
| 11 | Carolyn Henderson finds out how pint-sized performers can take on and beat the big boys . |
| 12 | Everyone is happy to jump-to and work hard on a new factory opening or a big product launch , but they are not so eager to rush off and fulfil the everyday requests which come in from the media . |
| 13 | At small stations , we have to get off and use the regular phones on the ground , like the passengers do at longer stops . ’ |
| 14 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 15 | Most modern , written , constitutions seek not merely to set up and define the main organs of the state and to distribute public power amongst them , but also to state a range of constitutional guarantees for the subject , frequently limiting the power of organs of the state to this extent . |
| 16 | This is a time when entertainers should shut up and allow the black leaders of the community to take a stand and make a change . |
| 17 | Yes , he seems to pop up and get the important goals when they 're needed and you know , none was more important than today really . |
| 18 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 19 | ‘ If I had that kind of money I would try to go out and buy the best players available — I would pay the price needed as Kenny has done . |
| 20 | Crocodiles are being preserved in some parts of the world by farming them , because that means that it is not so worthwhile to go out and kill the wild ones . |
| 21 | With this new approach we are able to sit back and enjoy the delightful escapades of young kittens at play without any moral posturing . |
| 22 | So I was quite happy to sit back and let the other guests talk when they came on . |
| 23 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 24 | First , if specific librarians and information scientists are unable or unwilling ( or both ) to learn about and understand the detailed situations within which the information that they handle will eventually be used , then they should restrict themselves to the more general situation-independent value-adding processes . |
| 25 | One of the local pickers , Evan Roberts , said they could not stand by and watch the rival pickers take their living away . |