Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 2 | ‘ You have n't filled in the bit about union membership , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Runcorn ( 1964 ) , another sizeable township of 28,000 population , followed for Merseyside and in the same year Washington largely filled in the gap between South Tyneside and Sunderland . |
| 4 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 5 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 6 | Poshekhonov said that he had found the way to laugh , he had picked up the spear of ridicule . |
| 7 | Timber which has been properly kiln-seasoned ( which needs expensive kilns and close supervision ) is in no way worse than ‘ naturally ’ seasoned timber and indeed is rather less likely to have picked up the infections of rot during the seasoning process . |
| 8 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive in a hotel . |
| 9 | I believe many people increasingly want their news when it is convenient for them — when they get in from work , when they 've picked up the children from school , when they take a break from their work , or finish a meeting , when they arrive at a hotel . |
| 10 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 11 | And we have speeded up the benefits of revaluation for those businesses who gain from it . |
| 12 | The reforms have speeded up the pace of resource management ( now being rolled out to all acute units ) , made medical audit compulsory and strengthened managers ' formal powers over clinicians . |
| 13 | This has speeded up the flow of information on companies to the regions . |
| 14 | Young children may well appreciate this before they have sorted out the relation between connective , mode , and temporal order . |
| 15 | The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate . |
| 16 | According to press reports the guerrillas claimed to have carried out the attack in support of a state-wide bandh ( political strike ) backing the implementation of the Mandal Commission report . |
| 17 | An alternative explanation for Abu Nidal involvement was the suggestion that his group might have carried out the killings on behalf of the Iraqi regime ; this version depended on the suggestion that Abu Iyad , while publicly backing the PLO 's pro-Iraqi line , was expressing reservations about it to Arafat in private . |
| 18 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 19 | for centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience . |
| 20 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 21 | First of these was our Himalayan hill-walk , albeit seen fro the comfort of Undercroft chairs , in the cheerful company of Bill Mitchell . |
| 22 | But attribution could only be meaningful if trade union representatives on company boards everywhere and always accepted wholeheartedly the duties of ownership along with the rights , so changing the role of the unions fundamentally and abandoning any pretence to industrial democracy . |
| 23 | Gleizes and Metzinger stressed that Cubist painting had no specifically decorative function , and that it did not attain its full meaning only when hung on the wall at eye level . |
| 24 | Hastily he redirected his attention towards the circular screen that he had hung on the wall in place of an oil painting of some horned , scaly jungle monster . |
| 25 | We will take your pledge to the Earth Summit where it will be hung on the Tree of Life itself . |
| 26 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 27 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 28 | Lastly , in January 1988 , when Mendoros arrived in Britain — having turned down the carrot of promotion — the economy was booming . |
| 29 | Cumberland was for the moment needed in England and after , to everyone 's relief , the discredited Field Marshal Wade had turned down the post of Commander-in-Chief in Scotland it was , on 24 December , accepted by Lieut-General Henry Hawley , known from his record as a disciplinarian as ‘ Hangman Hawley ’ . |
| 30 | At a New Alresford Parish Council meeting last week , it was announced that Winchester city planners have turned down the application for change of use on the grounds of noise , odours and increased vehicle movement in a largely residential area . |