Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 2 | The herds of antelope cluster together a little more tightly ; vultures and storks alight in the tops of trees to roost ; baboons clamber up into the branches where they will be safe from prowling leopards . |
| 3 | Hurry up with the scissors Pauly . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's like just walk all over the students again . |
| 5 | What we try do and is actually sort of focus in on the branches so that so , to try and get try and get all the strains together . |
| 6 | As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied . |
| 7 | Not round Havers , wh they park where those , those sort of shops are they they park all around the corners so that you have to go out round them . |
| 8 | After Kensaleyre , this beautiful road , a territory of hawks , runs by Loch Snizort Beag , and from the calm grassy uplands , well-to-do houses look down on the waters where the opportunities for boats seem infinite . |
| 9 | Stand upright with the feet approximately 46cm ( 18in ) apart and pointing out slightly . |
| 10 | You may find it helpful to read these items first , and then go back and look carefully at the explanations underneath . |
| 11 | Look carefully at the angles opposite . |
| 12 | ‘ All towns look the same nowadays until you look up at the buildings above and the scenery beyond , ’ he grunted . |
| 13 | Oh , and Kate — get on to the engineers again , will you ? |
| 14 | Someone get on to the police immediately ! ’ |
| 15 | Get on to the police straightaway . ’ |
| 16 | Get down to the shops now for the bargain of the century ! 99% |
| 17 | STROKE victim Bishop Edward Daly told the Belfast Telegraph : ‘ I just wake up in the mornings now and say ‘ Thank you God , for another day ’ . ’ |
| 18 | So there 's no water shortage as such , sometimes you get the water problems when you get out in the sticks somewhere you 'll , you , you do have problems , but all fire officers are trained to search their areas and have special cards er which they 've done their research on , where the water supplies are , like ponds and lakes and so on , and that information is readily available when they turn out these areas so that a fire crew going out there , your nearest water supply is a pond at and certain area and they 've got that you see . |
| 19 | But our Key Person policy compensated us , which kept our backers and creditors happy , and eventually we managed to recruit new people , reorganise and get back on the rails again . ’ |
| 20 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 21 | Fell from a second-floor window smack down on the flagstones not a yard from where you 're standing . |
| 22 | Hey — go down to the woods today and you 're sure of a fairly stupendous surprise . |
| 23 | If you go down to the woods today , make sure it 's not the Forest Of Dean . |
| 24 | But if you go down to the woods today you wo n't get a big surprise , because as boars have a tendency to charge at people they 're being kept in by an electric fence . |
| 25 | If you go down to the woods today , prepare for a big surprise . |
| 26 | If you go down to the woods today |
| 27 | If this happened the lighthouse-keeper would tell the warden , who would muster as many ‘ hands ’ as were available , and go up to the headlands where the lighthouses stood . |
| 28 | I go out to the shops about once a week , just to get absolute essentials . |
| 29 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 30 | I think perhaps for the holidays then . |