Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 32 | The Carpets may have tumbled from grace with those anxious to keep pace with fashion , fallen victim to a mid-career plunge into the realms of prog rock and put out the odd dodgy single , but they 're currently looking like people whose revived self-belief is entirely justified . |
| 33 | OLDHAM boss Joe Royle is backing his old Norwich City pals to stay the course and pull off the first Premier League title . |
| 34 | Ludovico went straight to the Via Santo Spirito , strode purposefully through the leafy courtyard , and ran up the broad shallow stairs to the top floor . |
| 35 | In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 36 | But doing so required a process of theoretical labour in which the analyst abstracts from a mass of empirical observations in order to detect the underlying order beneath the appearance of bewildering variety , and works out the fundamental causal processes in operation . |
| 37 | Watch in delight as the city 's trendiest inhabitants jetski down Fifth Avenue , or strap on your tanks and check out the exotic undersea life flitting in and out of the ruined buildings where Harlem used to be . |
| 38 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 39 | A majority of the 1916 conference called for action to end the war , immediately provoking Hyndman and his supporters , including Jack Jones ( soon to become Labour MP for Silvertown ) and Thorne to depart and set up the National Socialist Party ( NSP ) . |
| 40 | FRANK BRUNO is urging bitter rival Lennox Lewis to world title glory — and set up the biggest British heavyweight battle of all time . |
| 41 | Irvine had been killed , not preparing for a piss but to carry out the same amorous duties I had . |
| 42 | Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East . |