Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 2 | The directory will then be made available to students , trainees , and researchers who are better placed to carry out the studies . |
| 3 | This simple but effective method of steam generation eliminates the need for a boiler so helping to cut down the incidence of scaling while also reducing water consumption by up to 80 per cent . |
| 4 | Knocker suddenly stopped mopping down the bar and looked at Yanto . |
| 5 | Er they 're still proper funerals but they basically bulk buying so the cost will be Typically about |
| 6 | He has only come to appreciate properly the importance of loving discipline and the need for obedience since he and Maggie have had children themselves . |
| 7 | Four Ministers apparently tried to cover up the truth by hiding under a cloak of secrecy . |
| 8 | The defendant contended that he thought that he was a good enough shot to hit only the bottles . |
| 9 | Thus , governments are endlessly seeking to shore up the erosion of the national idea which a world economy inflicts upon them . |
| 10 | She switched on the wall light over the table rather than the bright central strip , hoping it would look coaler ; but it only seemed to bring up the shadows . |
| 11 | I would very much like to pick up the ball and run with it as to whether this policy is necessary or not . |
| 12 | We will want to be able to build high capacity systems so going to take on the class of applications that have traditionally been associated with a mainframe . |
| 13 | The idea is that the various farm based tourist attractions get together to help bring in the visitors . |
| 14 | MANCHESTER UNITED yesterday settled into an uneasy peace after a face-saving operation by which Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton mutually agreed to tear up the contract that would have sold the club to Knighton . |
| 15 | But they know that many regard them as bearded , half-educated lefties , who only teach to fill in the gaps between long holidays in sunnier climes . |
| 16 | A minute later , as they left Mariánské Láznë behind , Fabia suddenly started to wonder why the blazes she was being so assertive . |
| 17 | For starters , we only decided to break down the barriers and go for overseas imports last year because we needed an out-and-out fast bowler to make any impact on the championship . |
| 18 | The investors , with the help of their solicitors , will obviously wish to consider carefully the effect of such arrangements , and may wish to renegotiate the terms . |
| 19 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 20 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 21 | the quality concepts are understood , the benefits are widely enough known to convince even the sceptics about the importance of using the framework . |
| 22 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 23 | ‘ Only wanted to know where the girl was . ’ |
| 24 | And those local wine and cheese mornings and the open air Shakespeare and the woolly ties and the pot pourri and the comfrey-scented face creams and all those coffee table books about life in Edwardian country houses well , it does all tend to bring out the boor in at least one member . |
| 25 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 26 | Why do people on holiday suddenly start taking up the kind of violent exercise they would n't even contemplate normally ? ’ sighed Jim . |
| 27 | It was impossible , in any case , to bath her , because they were only allowed to let out the bathwater on a falling tide . |
| 28 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 29 | So do send off the guarantee registration card ; the manufacturer usually asks for the return of the card as a term of his guarantee . |
| 30 | Your roll of wire will be worth an exploratory dig , tools become toys to be kicked around and chewed , and your jumper which you foolishly left hanging on the fence is now going to suffer a life-threatening crisis . |