Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner we would gossip , play cards or perhaps walk along the Dee , idly picking up a piece of driftwood here and there along the way . |
| 2 | When development communicators ignore women , they consciously or unconsciously slow down the pace of development and perpetuate the vicious cycles of poverty , illiteracy , starvation and human suffering . |
| 3 | When development communicators ignore women , they consciously or unconsciously slow down the pace of development and perpetuate the vicious cycles of poverty , illiteracy , starvation , and human suffering . |
| 4 | Alternatively , you could decorate the order of service , if one was printed , or even write out the words of one of the hymns used and frame it with a selection of the pressed flowers . |
| 5 | After a few reasonable take-offs and landings , said those dreaded words feared by all trainee pilots , ‘ Do you think you can manage on your own for one circuit ? ’ , and promptly got out of the plane , leaving me to do the usual pre take-off checks , taxi to the beginning of the runway and nervously accelerate down the runway to do a fair take-off . |
| 6 | Perhaps for the first time he felt something akin to Eliza 's feelings , as he watched his boxes and bottles winched aboard ship and slowly disappear over the horizon . |
| 7 | If the risk-free hedge is seen to produce a greater return than the risk-free rate then arbitrage will take place as investors offer to write more calls and so bring down the price of the option . |
| 8 | If the forecasts are believed , they will affect the actions of agents and so take on the role of expectations . |
| 9 | If you use drugs , you will need to consider that drugs can deplete your immune system and so speed up the progression of the illness . |
| 10 | Rather than face up to change , however , politicians , especially in the Conservative Party , campaigned for the use of the tariff to keep out foreign goods and to provide subsidies to British industry and so slow down the process of adjustment . |
| 11 | ‘ If students are going to be landed with a debt at the end of three years , they are going to choose vocational courses so that they can be certain of getting a job when they graduate and so pay off the loan . ’ |
| 12 | As always , remember to practise sl-ow-ly at first and only build up the tempo as and when the part begins to feel comfortable . |
| 13 | We disturb wildlife , pollute air , drop litter and literally wear out the footpaths . |
| 14 | There 's no installation program ; instead you have to create a directory on your hard disk and manually copy over the files . |
| 15 | Highlander provided an educational forum where those who were interested in pursuing the idea of a ‘ participatory research ’ project on land ownership could swap experiences and ideas and together hammer out the details of what was known , what was wanted and how to collect the facts . |
| 16 | ( ii ) Transfer the testis to fresh 2.2% sodium citrate solution contained in a small glass Petri dish and gently pull out the tubules . |
| 17 | Apply cuticle remover all round the nail and gently push down the cuticles with a rubber-tipped hoof stick , a cotton bud , or cotton wool wrapped round an orange stick . |
| 18 | The introduction of the five-point try was announced in Wellington , New Zealand , yesterday by rugby union 's International Board , which has made a series of sweeping rule changes in an attempt to quicken the flow and generally brighten up the game . |
| 19 | We really need to pull some focus on all that percussion and generally tighten up the imaging . |
| 20 | and just use up the P E P . |
| 21 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
| 22 | The Christmas tree decorated only with silver stars cut out and bows made out of paper rope , you cut the paper rope and just tie up the bows . |
| 23 | I wish I could be like you and just give up the Glens for Linfield . |
| 24 | So always start with the minimum amount and gradually build up the tones until you reach the strength that emphasises , rather than overpowers . |
| 25 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 26 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 27 | erm And I hope you 'll enjoy it and also pick up the lessons . |
| 28 | Articles on doctrinal themes such as God , Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit show how the churches have converged in their teachings and also point out the areas of difference that remain . |
| 29 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 30 | Loosen the grub screws and carefully ease out the cables , taking careful note of where they 've come from , and which wires are grouped together . |