Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 2 | Still on the gardening scene , I 've used these for years in place of plant pots for bringing seeds on in the greenhouse . |
| 3 | Watercolour paper is very difficult for using crayons on as the ‘ pits ’ in the paper interrupt the crayon colour . |
| 4 | Another organisation , ‘ Rock Against Terror ’ emerged from a nighttime incident in which musicians from two groups in Moscow were roughly treated by the police for singing songs loudly in the streets . |
| 5 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 6 | Managers get the blame EDUCATION managers in County Durham were blamed yesterday for keeping money away from the schools which need it most . |
| 7 | What thanks is this for keeping vigil outside in the street nearly all night ? |
| 8 | Once you 've done that , you can then start taking really strong action about keeping traffic out of the City , because you 've got the alternative . |
| 9 | I think this is not just a problem in Kent , I think that there has been a erm an undue er move in this direction nationally , er for what ever reasons public policy was very much about keeping people out of the courts , er I suspect that this is er er a policy which is of doubtful philosophical underpinning . |
| 10 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |
| 11 | The rugged David McIvor — at No8 on the Scottish scrum feed but on the flank on France 's — was the one man who showed any real propensity for knocking men back in the tackle . |
| 12 | Indeed , Lindsell regards this as virtually a twelfth business — and one which has also returned to profit after losing money heavily in the past few years . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary is in my opinion entitled and bound to reach his own tariff decision , after having regard both to the judges ' tariff and to the factors such as public confidence in the administration of justice which Lord Scarman mentioned . |
| 14 | Rutland Water , one of the country 's largest reservoirs , where sheep and dogs died after drinking water close to the blue-green algae , is a classic case . |
| 15 | Now Parlour will get the chance to stake his claim after putting Arsenal back on the rails after their bad start to the season by making both goals in the 2-0 win at Liverpool on Sunday . |
| 16 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 17 | Pansy 's chemistry lessons are mainly a question of lobbing stuff out of the cupboard into a crucible and trying to get an explosion going . |
| 18 | Marco made an elaborate performance of helping Tabitha out of the net . |
| 19 | ( 6.8 ) ; A complete velocity profile for the acceleration can be built-up by repeating this process for a range of stepping rates up to the pull-out rate fm . |
| 20 | One of the problems with the MacSharry proposals is that , instead of bringing agriculture closer to the market , they will perpetuate existing excessive levels of support for the majority of farmers . |
| 21 | They 're bringing it in or something or thinking of bringing actions forward into the or whatever . |
| 22 | If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help . |
| 23 | The responsibility for challenging the conventional wisdom which surrounds the concept of needs rests heavily on the shoulders of those teachers aware of the injustice in the present system . |
| 24 | And today 's slippery aerodynamics , whilst improving a vehicle 's penetration through the air , actually divert the flow of cooling air away from the engine bay . |
| 25 | And there is no doubt that some large companies do have a deliberate policy of delaying payments well beyond the agreed credit terms . |
| 26 | Using a single prong transfer tool , lift the two long strands of weaving yarn on to the selected needles . |
| 27 | As for the comment you attributed to me , that Britain has a budding romance with pressurised water reactor , I have always been an advocate of keeping government out of the bedroom and would , therefore , never have allowed such a comment to pass From my lips . |
| 28 | Planting it outside the backdoor was a sure way of keeping witches out of the house , and it was thought never to be struck by lightning ; cutting it brought bad luck , and traditionally it was the wood the Cross of Calvary . |
| 29 | But the problems of keeping microphones out of the picture , of different versions for foreign countries , and of editing the pictures independently of sound , mean such processes have become inevitable . |
| 30 | One evening he clambered down with an armful of tin pipes and funnels , scooped a cupful of fermenting liquid out of the barrel , and disappeared into the lavatory . |