Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
| 2 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 3 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 4 | I mean only to provide the following answer to the argument from coordination as an argument for conventionalism . |
| 5 | The sky is already a clear , broad blue but it is not yet warm enough to tempt the thin mist from the fields and hedges . |
| 6 | During the Waldheim visit to Munich , Streibl demonstratively invited the Austrian President to sign the golden book of the Bavarian State in the Prinz-Carl palace , where Mussolini liked to stay . |
| 7 | Morgan remembers him as a ‘ breath of fresh air ’ as a manager who single handedly rejuvenated the Scottish team with his incredible ability to motivate players . |
| 8 | Headline also publishes The Healing Garden by Sue Minter , curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden , which introduces the healing , soothing and stimulating benefits of plants , following in the tradition of early monastic gardens ( UK , Canada : Headline ; Australia/New Zealand : Collins , A & R ; US : Charles E Tuttle ) . |
| 9 | Here the fields are small … and the hedges often tall and deep , leafy with trees of all ages as hedgerow saplings grow up to replace the dying giants … . |
| 10 | Shortly before birth the developed infant reverses its position and lies head downwards awaiting the muscular contractions in the mother which will bring about birth . |
| 11 | Cimetidine also inhibited the basal proliferation of MKN45 xenografts . |
| 12 | Shell also said the foreign exchange loss would be more than offset by a tax credit of £149 million from its Japanese subsidiary . |
| 13 | Whatever answer the children provide also creates the fundamental tension behind the drama : " If we do n't manage X , then Y will occur . " |
| 14 | The CME and SIMEX also obtained the exclusive licence to trade Nikkei stock index futures contracts outside Japan , but while this has been fairly successful on SIMEX , it has been less so in Chicago ( 881,000 contracts on SIMEX as against 61000 on the CME in 1990 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’ |
| 16 | Environmental politics on the global scale will be dominated increasingly by the need to feed people , so any climate shift adversely affecting the American grain-belt will be a serious matter . |
| 17 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 18 | Another factor is lower house prices — people in Northern Ireland tend not to have the massive mortgages which crippled so many householders in England . |
| 19 | formed in the wake of the 1972 Stockholm conference , UNEP soon spawned the Global Environment Monitoring System ( GEMS ) as well as an international register of potentially toxic chemicals and a global network of sources to locate and provide technical , scientific and management information on the environment . |
| 20 | The entrepreneurial hero and the worker drone together personify the mythic version of how the American economic system works . |
| 21 | Paige scarcely registered the momentary pain of his possession before spiralling waves of indescribable pleasure took her . |
| 22 | The FRG and the USSR undertake unreservedly to respect the territorial integrity of all states in Europe within their present borders . |
| 23 | Fry deliberately wrote the next part of his essay in a railway refreshment room ( ‘ One must remember that public places of this kind merely reflect the average citizen 's soul , as expressed in his home ’ ) . |
| 24 | We continued into the upper , easier couloir , not realising that most people abseil off to avoid the long haul to the summit . |
| 25 | Some galleries are long , like those at Yew Tree and Monk Coniston , where a great ( or walking ) spinning wheel could be used , the spinner requiring space to draw her thread away from the great wheel and , turning , to reverse the wheel and walk back to wind the spun yarn on the bobbin . |
| 26 | Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev . |
| 27 | This plan will work only if Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB act fast to compensate the retail trade for their losses and obsolete stock . |
| 28 | Passers-by pause here to admire the spectacular view over shanty-town rooftops , across the crater-like basin of the city to the Andean ranges on the other side . |
| 29 | Suffice here to accept the inevitable constraints imposed by language , as noted by Ryle ( 1975 ) , and recognize its limitations especially in the area of aesthetic response . |
| 30 | Some of them could be reversed by making the engine almost stop then run the opposite way . |