Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Through lively , lashing , conscientiously structured songs like ‘ Cartoon World ’ , ‘ Boy Girl ’ , ‘ Out Of Control ’ , ‘ Trevor ’ , ‘ Twilight ’ , ‘ The Dream Is Over ’ , ‘ Another Day ’ , ‘ Shadows in Tall Trees ’ , potently splicing the wiggly world and the real world , U2 desperately point out the absurdity and danger of the happiness we 're continually told we enjoy/envy/suffer/ca n't do without .
2 He remembered the morning he had watched Bert proudly hang up the brand new sign .
3 Shrewsbury have got to make sure as much as possible when they do win the ball in the they do n't just smash long balls up , because as l as soon as they do that and as long as they keep doing that , Blackburn just pick up the ball again and keep coming at them , they 've got to try like they did just a few minutes ago , try and play themselves out of defence with nice low passes .
4 Jenny Maxwell and Dawn Gill both take up the challenge of the presumed cultural and political neutrality of mathematics and , by means of an examination of the common ( and therefore frequently invisible ) setting for mathematical problems , bring to light many ( contentious ) presumptions about acceptable , appropriate and valued uses for mathematics .
5 This work behind them , Peach and Horne then set about the description of the North:West Highlands .
6 He attributes his success in holding Basildon to the front page of Thursday 's Sun — ‘ If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ’ — and in being treated as something of a hero within sections of the Conservative Party .
7 Silas and Matt then set up the barbecue , and Lucy was able to open the two food hampers , her eyes widening at the variety they contained .
8 The memoirs of great inter-war players like Dixie Dean , Tommy Lawton , and Stanley Matthews politely skate over the issue , but a Manchester United player in the 1920s recalled a telling incident involving the club captain , Frank Barson .
9 We can , moreover , hear the urbane inflection of the voice where Nicholas and Alison briefly take up the fabliau narrative within the narrative , spinning the yarn of John 's foolishness : The joke is enhanced by their attribution of the elegant French phrase , par compaignye , to this " " lewed " " character .
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