Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide . |
2 | Bonn can plainly not afford the political price of continuing to shore up the German Democratic Republic with billions of Deutsche Marks unless in return for genuine reform . |
3 | If you feel drained ( despite having carried out the previous visualisations ) , take a shower , if possible , or a bath containing essence of juniper . |
4 | Guppy allegedly boasted of having carried out the perfect crime , the court heard . |
5 | Yet he has allowed the excess creation of credit to continue , and has not used the obvious policy of overfunding to mop up the excess money supply . |
6 | Instead of trying to break up the real shape of the animal , it attempts to make it appear flatter than it is . |
7 | Corbett stopped his horse to watch some labourers in the fields below working to bring in the last of the crops . |
8 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
9 | Nature was seen as a process of strife between divine cosmic powers and demoniacal chaotic powers in which humans were not just spectators but were obliged to play an active part in helping to bring about the required phenomena by acting in full unison with nature . |
10 | ‘ The duty engineer will consult the computer before deciding to call out the gritting teams . ’ |
11 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on March 22 that the UK and Czechoslovakia would co-operate in trying to find out the ultimate destination of the Semtex which had been exported to Libya . |
12 | There is intense perceived pain in contemplating giving up the mood-altering substance or behaviour and making further major changes in these " pictures " of reality . |
13 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
14 | After years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site , Hindu extremists brought the issue to an explosive head this year by threatening to tear down the crumbling mosque and build a temple devoted to Lord Rama . |