Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive .
2 It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief .
3 Vector graphics , on the other hand , are created by defining the start and end points of a line or curve together with the necessary angle and weight or thickness of the line .
4 Japanese security experts say the survivors are demoralised , middle-aged revolutionaries without strong support or influence either in the Middle East or Japan .
5 Every moment of Rainbow 's existence during my time at the Fair has been tracked , recorded , docketed and programmed for easy-edit , so I am able to wipe , play-back , freeze-frame or skim fast over the boring bits .
6 In Kingshams Field , the bank was apparently partly levelled or cut away by the mid third century at least , prior to the construction of a stone building with a courtyard to the south .
7 When included , the inner shape was taken to be a hole or cut out in the total shape .
8 Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities .
9 We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River .
10 Penelope wished now that she had worn a dress or suit instead of the elegant tartan trews , but they had seemed the only way to make Rupert Stonebird notice her .
11 I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand .
12 Women must either follow the male career route and spend little time with their children , or drop out for the vital middle years that filter out the top managers .
13 IF YOU want to know what books are in the library or find out about the latest reports on new topics , you can now do this without leaving the comfort of your office .
14 It is possible to take a difficult route back to the line almost immediately , or go on to the next farm and follow a track there .
15 Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer .
16 ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system .
17 If you want , take to the water with a sunny trip by boat to view the coastline in a more leisurely fashion , or go across to the romantic island of Elba .
18 If you can help please telephone DAD on Darlington or call in at the local office at the Friends Meeting House , 6 Skinnergate , Darlington .
19 The appeal raises important and , to our minds , difficult questions of principle regarding the right of a mortgagor on the taking of a mortgage account to object to the level of costs , charges and expenses which the mortgagee claims to be entitled to charge against or retain out of the mortgaged property .
20 The FIS was also demanding that presidential elections be held simultaneously with or follow shortly after the general election scheduled for June 27 .
21 If terrestrial zodiacs ore the product of our own imagination , we can either dismiss them as pure delusion , or work positively with the same idea , seeing their description and charting as a work of art in its own right .
22 The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money .
23 Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ .
24 By contrast , the G cells are not detectable until 18 weeks of gestation and develop entirely within the anatomical antrum .
25 I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back .
26 Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side .
27 Should you decide to stick to sherry and branch out into the heavier aloroso you will have a thick head tomorrow and we will have an entertaining evening . ’
28 We carried a medical team with vehicles and back up for the medical team .
29 They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd .
30 Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones .
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