Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the Generalísimo 's unprecedented attentions to the visitor were no more , but also no less , than a lavish propaganda exercise designed as a show of political strength to conceal or shore up the underlying economic weakness and isolation of the regime . |
| 2 | They do nothing to break up the food into easily swallowed gobbets or to tease out the hard inedible bits . |
| 3 | In his free time he was happy to watch cartoons and videos on TV or wander around the various royal apartments , chatting to kitchen staff or watching Diana perform her ballet exercises at Kensington Palace . |
| 4 | The curtains were still pulled and he placed one of the packages of groceries on the table , holding the other to his side as he went across the room and whipped back the heavy green curtains . |
| 5 | They came instead upon another of Whipple 's scouting parties , under Lieutenant S.M. Rains , and wiped out the entire twelve-man detachment . |
| 6 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 7 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 8 | I could then walk much faster and push up the average daily mileage . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman ignores the fact that I head a Government who have cut interest rates seven times in the past 12 months , halved inflation in a year and built up the best industrial relations in half a century . |
| 10 | Snipe do n't sing , they only drum their wings , she remembered , as she cut through the thread-like neck , and holding the bird 's head by its absurdly long beak , crunched through the white skull and sucked out the strange delicious brains within it . |
| 11 | Impetus and the driving weight told , and the wedge , only a little misshapen now , crashed through and bore down the few extra yards upon the waiting English . |
| 12 | So much for security , Ruth mused as she leapt back into the jeep and drove up the long gravelly drive ; I could be a burglar for all he knew . |
| 13 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
| 14 | IT WAS once said of Peter Shilton , by a frustrated forward who had failed to beat him in a one-on-one situation , that ‘ he just spreads his arms and fills up the whole bloody goal ’ . |
| 15 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 16 | Or maybe he had seen the onset of labour in the way she had acted earlier , when he and Kāli untwisted the bales of hay for the night and spread out the fresh pine-needle bedding . |
| 17 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 18 | She re-read his covering note again , picking up and turning over the other enclosed letter in her hands . |
| 19 | She started in the bathroom , where she washed down years of dust from walls and ceiling , scoured the toilet so that it sparkled , and dug out the thick dusty webs behind the pipes and wash-basin , disturbing a colony of frantic spiders . |
| 20 | It had taken only a little practice to discover how to lie there , flat on her back , and slowly , with great care , peel away the roof beam and open back the two vast panes of glass . |
| 21 | Now several people in the audience were on their feet and waving in an attempt to attract the attention of Gerrard , who left the dais and walked up the narrow central aisle , holding a hand microphone high in the air . |
| 22 | She went to the Underground , sat on the train planning what she was going to do , and walked up the big rich tree-lined road where Theresa and Anthony had their home . |
| 23 | She rubbed her cheek against his chest and breathed in the clean male scent of him . |
| 24 | Spurred on by a new hope , she ran across the road and scrambled up the smooth grassy side of the hillock . |
| 25 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
| 26 | For westerners this may seem odd : in karate , you will see people in starched white uniforms fighting each other and letting out the odd blood-curdling scream . |
| 27 | The structural adjustment policies of the government , designed to reduce the budget deficit and the country 's debt and to build up the depleted foreign exchange reserves were supported by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 28 | You simply use the Walking Diet , put your foot down , and clock up the necessary aerobic miles to get you back to your goal weight . |
| 29 | I 'm concerned that we give our three children the right education and lay down the best possible plans for the future . |
| 30 | Place the cloth on the plastic film and turn out the still warm cake on to it . |