Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 2 | In turn , the owner is blaming her local council for not paying out the full amount of housing benefits to her tenants . |
| 3 | Even if this were n't so , there would probably be good economic reasons for not keeping up the maximum pulse rate all the time . |
| 4 | Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out . |
| 5 | The reduction process consists of gradually filtering out the dependent constituents at successive levels until what is left is the most important grouping peak or the prolongational arrival which completes the argument of the entire text . |
| 6 | That was certainly the prevalent mood when England , confident of again sorting out the beleaguered Irish , and at least making the French work for the Five Nations Cup , took the field at Lansdowne Road with a side apparently brimful with Lions for New Zealand . |
| 7 | Leave to dry overnight before gently bending back the waxed paper and lifting off the piped outlines with a palette knife . |
| 8 | Light : Bright light from above to bring about the deep mauve or reddish colour . |
| 9 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 10 | It was clear enough for Gareth to just make out the gaunt shapes of the drilling platforms on the north-eastern horizon . |
| 11 | This wacky space-chick might not be everybody 's dream girl-who-fell-to-earth but at least it should allow Basinger to finally shake off the bruised sex-kitten image she 's been saddled with ever since Mickey Rourke emptied his weekly grocery shopping all over her body in the designer sex-romp 9/2 Weeks . |
| 12 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 13 | Once the task manager is visible all you can select Tile or Cascade to instantly tidy up the all of the application windows currently open . |
| 14 | ( The reader is advised to temporarily cover up the remaining nodes . ) |
| 15 | 5.1 to also lays down the permitted hours for off-sale premises . |
| 16 | What was needed was ‘ to radically wipe out the major differences between towns and villages ’ in order ‘ to more powerfully homogenize our socialist society , to create a single worker people ’ . |
| 17 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 18 | ( For details on how to drain down the central heating system , see Chapter 13 . ) |
| 19 | The changes , after four hours of argument among ministers on how to prop up the eight-month-old government , was a rapid response to the turmoil created by the resignation of the finance and health ministers last Friday . |
| 20 | It is hoped delegates attending the franchising events will also attend the second seminar , as these will provide an effective overview on how to bring in the various sections of the Practice Management Standards at firm level . |
| 21 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 22 | A mortar attack 30 minutes earlier forced frightened staff to hurriedly fill in the two tiny holes and run for cover . |
| 23 | One girl stopped the others to ask advice about how to write down the ghostly sound of a door opening . |
| 24 | Before tracing the developments of public spending control at the centre , it is worth briefly setting out the contrasting ways in which other academics have sought to analyse it in order to make my own theoretical framework explicit . |
| 25 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 26 | Hyacinth , quieter now , glanced around the room in embarrassment and her mother at once shooed out the smaller children . |
| 27 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 28 | He finished , face raised and eyes closed , and at once gave out the final psalm . |
| 29 | Better sacks have bound seams which do at least slow down the leaking process . |
| 30 | If quick decisions are needed , say during the sales , then at least work out the approximate size of the spaces you have in mind and look out for pieces of furniture that will best fit into them . |