Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I have no doubt of course I never I despise the woman so heartily that I never ask any questions about it . |
| 2 | I push the door slowly forwards so it hardly creaks . |
| 3 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 4 | If there is an incongruous response sit in the light to assist lip reading , and repeat the question more slowly and loudly , facing the client , but without shouting or exaggeration . |
| 5 | She says please just get on with it and repair the bridge as soon as possible . |
| 6 | No no I make the decisions as far as finance is concerned . |
| 7 | The trouble is that , after the event , all of these make the situation worse rather than better . |
| 8 | When parents become involved in sibling arguments they have to be very careful not make the situation worse rather than better . |
| 9 | ‘ You make the Scapegoat quite separately and tie it on afterwards ? ’ |
| 10 | Porter points out , nevertheless , that industry structures do change over time , perhaps due to technological or other developments , and that the firm itself may , through its competitive strategy , change the structure either inadvertently or not . |
| 11 | ( 6 ) Note 3 to Rule 10 provides that once a firm intention to make an offer is announced , the target company must on request provide the offeror as soon as possible with all relevant details of its issued shares and , to the extent not issued , its allotted shares , and details of any conversion or subscription rights or any other rights pursuant to which shares might be allotted or issued unconditionally during the offer period . |
| 12 | Modigliani Please send the canvases as soon as possible . |
| 13 | ( xii ) Remove the slide very slowly and air-dry using air which is moisturized by passing through water at 37-C . |
| 14 | They pack tightly together until they cover the stone as closely as tiles on a roof . |
| 15 | Holding on still with one hand , I took a visual line ahead from the north needle to mark into memory the furthest small tree I could see , then put the compass away again and with infinite slowness clawed a way forward by inches and after a while reached the target and held on to it for dear life . |
| 16 | If your Dream is to live in a country cottage , then picture the cottage as vividly as you can . |
| 17 | Focus the mind as precisely as possible on what you want to find and start to walk . |
| 18 | Emily and I let the girls home early and then returned for one last look at the old building . |
| 19 | Whether the alternative candidates confuse the situation more often than they aid it can only be found from adequate testing of the system . |
| 20 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 21 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 22 | As the neck of the pigeon clears the neck of the suit , I grab it , double it back and pinch the bend as hard as I can — remembering you have to be cruel to be kind — scratching my own neck quite badly in the process . |
| 23 | Chop the shallots very finely and arrange around the edge of four serving plates . |
| 24 | 1 Wash the fish thoroughly inside and out and pat dry with kitchen paper . |
| 25 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 26 | However , we would ask that you complete the form as far as possible so that realistic estimates of the total number of tests to be undertaken may be made . |
| 27 | Scrap the thing so far and begin another . |
| 28 | Those giving evidence obviously read the papers more conscientiously than the rest of us , and had short briefing sessions beforehand with the counsel on their side , but did not know what questions they would be asked . |
| 29 | Since I was working from this book I read the introduction more carefully than I had done previously . |
| 30 | I sat up late last night and read the Geste as far as to where Beren and his gnomish allies defeat the patrol of orcs above the sources of the Narog and disguise themselves in the reaf [ Old English : ‘ garments , weapons taken from the slain ’ ] . |