Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , both groups wittily peel back the scabs of modern pop until they form into mottled bruises . |
| 2 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 3 | The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church , so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself . |
| 4 | Opulent decors and images only point up the jadedness , and the tale of a deracinated interloper ( Beatrice Dalle ) caught up in family plotting at the chateau turns into a risible cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Homes And Gardens . |
| 5 | When a drover 's or farmer 's beasts went missing , they were liable to find their way into rogues ' hiding-places such as the deep cleft of the Devil 's Beef Tub near the source of the River Tweed above Moffat , where encircling hills seemed , according to Sir Walter Scott , to be ‘ laying their heads together to shut out the daylight from the dark hollow space between them ’ . |
| 6 | His early performances always brought out the vulnerability behind the front , the uncertainty behind the violence , the sense of sliding out of control . |
| 7 | His eyes still dart around the room looking for a weapon . |
| 8 | My ears frantically sought out the cause , |
| 9 | He stood up and bent his knees slightly to take out the stiffness . |
| 10 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 11 | The import of data from molecular and genetic databases also holds out the promise of revitalising classical taxonomy using molecular systematics and DNA-probe analysis . |
| 12 | The other girls had reached the top of the bank now , and they saw her long legs fairly leaping down the slope after the speeding pram . |
| 13 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 14 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 15 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 16 | Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees , and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue . |
| 17 | Some parents just switch off the alarm after the initial wetting , fail to change the bed , and leave the child so that there is no real opportunity for the child to learn . |
| 18 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |
| 19 | Winemakers often argue over the question whether Cabernet Sauvignon is universally liked because it is the best red grape variety in the world , or because it is the main ingredient in claret the world 's most widely available red wine . |
| 20 | Is it connected with the variety of radical movements actually making up the counterculture ? |
| 21 | In the United States , fear of European embroilment and the pro-Nationalist zeal of many American Catholics effectively cancelled out the sympathy felt in liberal circles towards the Republic . |
| 22 | There was litter , shoddiness , people here were no less commercial ( the contrary , they were trying to get in three days enough to balance out the winter ) , no less hasty . |
| 23 | The Construction Ministry estimates that $5.3 billion will be needed over the next five years just to clean up the country 's water supply . |
| 24 | The fizz of 300 sparklers soon lit up the atmosphere , as across the darkened hall wailed the haunting sound of sitar ( played by Sikhs from Britain Sikh Human Rights Movement ) . |
| 25 | The Boards usually carried out the work of laying distribution mains themselves , though sometimes they used independent contractors . |
| 26 | External filters usually hang on the side of the tank — or more commonly these days sit underneath it . |
| 27 | The upper classes rapidly gave up the struggle to maintain social exclusivity at the seaside resorts and fled to the Highlands , the Lakes , and eventually the Continent , to pursue their particular pleasures , unhampered by the proximity of their inferiors . |
| 28 | US troops later blew up the radio transmitter to prevent further broadcasts . |
| 29 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 30 | The application of towers dramatically broke up the monotony , as in Francis Thompson 's Chester General and P. C. Hardwick 's Royal Great Western Hotel , Paddington . |