Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] [adv prt] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marco made an elaborate performance of helping Tabitha out of the net . |
| 13 | ( 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Using a single prong transfer tool , lift the two long strands of weaving yarn on to the selected needles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First , there may be a case for shifting the evidential burden of establishing consent on to the shoulders of the defence in certain cases , such as where there is evidence of injury inflicted by the defendant , where weapons are used or where sexual intercourse takes place in the context of the commission of another grave offence . |
| 21 | Robert had made the mistake of looking Hasan up in the work in question , at the end of which he had almost decided to call in an exorcist with some experience in the Islamic field . |
| 22 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 23 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 24 | City streets have also provided Matthew Carr with material , though now he has abandoned his old habit of pulling people in off the pavement , ‘ as it can be taken the wrong way ’ . |
| 25 | So not a very successful project in terms of getting people out into the community but people are due to move at the end of this calendar year and I have no doubt that the project will be very successful thereafter . |
| 26 | Their command driven report writers provide a quick and flexible way of getting information out of the system . |
| 27 | Stuart Hyslop , of DTC , said he wanted to make it very clear that neither bus company was complaining about the idea of slowing traffic down on the estate . |
| 28 | Moreover , it has the advantage of providing data down to the level of the individual enumeration district covering roughly 500 inhabitants , which , even if too small for certain purposes , can be treated as a building block for areas specially defined by the user ( Rhind , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year |
| 30 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year . |