Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] and [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 A computer simulation based upon the hydrological should be able to allow many aspects of river basin behaviour to be considered simultaneously and also enable the simulation of the hydrological response of different basins .
2 Documentation involved will be completed sensitively and swiftly to minimise the later recurrence of stress and anxiety .
3 In the last 200 years the irrigation system has been extended to increase the number of crops grown annually and especially to increase the cultivation of cotton which is a major export crop .
4 One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family .
5 Some have done well and now own the businesses in which they were once employed or have opened their own .
6 Millichip refused to be drawn further and then fudged the issue by saying : ‘ This does not mean there is a question mark over the manager but we have to examine the situation . ’
7 Budgets are important because they are used indirectly and directly to fix the levels and distribution of taxes .
8 Undoubtedly Kingston 's favourite verb , it is used again and again to describe the alacrity with which his heroes rush into adventure : by contrast , their enemies often scamper as well , but away from danger rather than towards it , thus implying the superiority of the British race which is taken for granted in the yarns of the last century .
9 Some of them have been invited again and again to meet the London ambulance service for a briefing other than that which they get from the trade union .
10 The broomstick bounded forward and soon left the rooks behind .
11 READERS with longer memories will recall that Crystal Palace were dubbed The Team Of The Eighties by some people who should have known better and promptly began the decade with a 0-0 draw against Norwich .
12 Dashes of the dark emerald colour , called night green , No. 155 , and a lighter apple green No. 170 , were then placed here and there to represent the few remaining leaves .
13 The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes .
14 Delicately Louisa had tried again and again to create the opportunity , but she had been allowed no room .
15 On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident .
16 He had only ever been discovered once and still bore the scars on his wrist from the Alsatian 's razor-sharp-teeth .
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