Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He 's asked if you could pack some things from his house and bring the suitcase down to Immigration at Grantley Adams Airport at 7.30 this evening . |
2 | Bring the palms back to shoulder height , turn the palms to face down and then , as you breathe out , push the palms down and then let them rest at your sides . |
3 | You know , you get the house straight and send the kids off to school . |
4 | Erm well it depends erm the , the economics of power production are extremely erm er complex and , and t to a certain extent arbitrary erm and erm I mean there , there are various ways that the government can actually get out of this fix because obviously it 's caused a lot of concern to close the , the mines , and one is actually to , to subsidize the mines and put the price on to electricity bills er the other is to subsidize the mines er but pay for it out of the , out of , er out of taxes so it 's a basic , instead of paying for it on your electricity bill , you pay for it on your tax bill , yeah . |
5 | He switched on all the lights downstairs and put the kettle on to boil . |
6 | Gerwyn explains , ‘ You take a block of woodland , and leaving the occasional tree known as a standard , traditionally used for building timber , you cut the rest down to ground level and remove all the waste timber completely . |
7 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
8 | Gillian , left , and Gayle give the thumbs up to city drivers as they wait to cross busy Lime Street |
9 | We have a carefully targeted set of measures to lift confidence and get the country back to work . |
10 | All you got ta do is turn the oven on to heat the meals up . |
11 | After twenty minutes or so , turn the oven down to gas mark 4 , 180°C/325°F and roast for a further twenty minutes per pound . |
12 | The recruitment team can not get the letters out and keep the records up to date at the same time ; and if they employ temporaries , other problems arise : where can they sit ? |
13 | ‘ Switch the engine on to charge . ’ |
14 | Slowly curl the dumb-bells upwards to shoulder height , twisting them gradually during the full movement until the palms are facing you . |
15 | Dumb-bell curls — curl the dumb-bells upwards to shoulder height |
16 | When you were talking about your dredging earlier on , you used to take th the soil that you dredged up in the mud , in your dredger out t employ the hoppers out to sea . |
17 | But mind , once you are down there , you will not be able to return , for three terrible guardians bar the way back to earth ! " |
18 | Take the kite down to ground level and at either side , it will again reach a point where the aerodynamic forces are balanced , and it hovers nose into wind , the spine horizontal and cross-spars vertical . |