Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the success in managing to circumvent , persuade or buy off the opposition to nuclear power plants , France has also established a formula for building PWRs quicker than anyone else . |
| 2 | It would prevent more tragedies like Michael Watson 's and bring back the skill to the game . |
| 3 | The following graph gives a general idea of how quickly the real value of those customers ' accounts erode if they are not collected and slip down the scale to customer 5 . |
| 4 | It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway . |
| 5 | Several times they had to step down from the train and walk along the track to the nearest station ; on this particular evening the passengers were all wanting to get home and any delay was not welcome . |
| 6 | And as he climbed into the car and started the chilled engine , he had to make a very strong effort indeed to close the door on the compartment of his mind where Marjorie belonged and open wide the door to careful logical thinking about the project and this newest complication . |
| 7 | Instead , Merleau-Ponty proposed an open dialectic which would concede Marxism 's equivocalness , and give up the claim to the dialectical logic of History as a process of objective truth . |
| 8 | From the start , pick up a crate and kill the policeman , continue right , dodging the dog on the way , climb the ladder to where the mugger prowls , dodge him and grab the ‘ ? ’ ( 50 points ) and the records , climb upwards , collecting records on the way , kill the workman with the crate and thus gain access to the roof of the building , avoid climbing the crane ( there 's nothing of interest there ) , climb up the ladder and kill the policeman , run right and jump off the edge to the end of the building . |
| 9 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 10 | The proper procedure would be to make contact with the local force , and turn over the situation to them . |
| 11 | ‘ I am fully committed to implement the Panama Canal treaties and turn over the canal to Panama in the year 2000 … |
| 12 | If you persisted in trying to talk to her , she would heave herself out of her chair and turn up the volume to a decibel level that made your ears ache . |
| 13 | There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) . |
| 14 | Estimate groundspeed and work out the time to the threshold . |
| 15 | Now I think this came around , about , because you get the , the people , the women who want to wear fashionable clothes , it 's getting broader and broader and we 're sort of expanding downwards as it were , so you get women who have enough money to buy the material , to buy patterns , who have the skill to make dresses , but have n't the money to actually get a dressmaker to do it for them . |