Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the two of you are standing and balanced together , pivot slowly around towards the toilet or bed , making sure that the person 's knees are prevented from bending . |
| 2 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |
| 3 | leer lopsidedly out of the window |
| 4 | A vile joke — he could as well sprout wings and fly straight up to the sun as find that sum ! |
| 5 | To overcome this problem one enterprising manufacturer now produces narrow contoured baskets which fit snugly on to the shelves of all popular designs . |
| 6 | Hands still clenched into defensive fists , she watched him jump lithely on board the launch , fire the engine , manoeuvre expertly out into the creek . |
| 7 | I walk right up to the end of the platform . |
| 8 | I do n't want to go near them , so I walk right up against the shops , sort of leaning right against the windows so they wo n't get me . |
| 9 | Walk straight on to the Slavata Palace . |
| 10 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 11 | I leaned against her wall and gasped for air , and my arms and legs felt like lead weights , like when you climb up out of the baths and all the water 's draining off you . |
| 12 | When I climb back up to the pueblo there 's a meeting in progress . |
| 13 | When she finished her task , she watched him climb out on to the parapet . |
| 14 | We heard raised voices from the main hall but Benjamin insisted that we first walk out on to the porchway and take the morning air . |
| 15 | Some weep publicly ; others walk high up into the stands and sob quietly . |
| 16 | Sit cross-legged on the floor and ease forward out of the hips . |
| 17 | The non-subjective reader saw Laz ( in the third person ) bump into the pillar and stumble blindly on across the lobby of the Butcher Building , clutching his skull . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , ‘ the earoles ’ are the ‘ respectable ’ students who obey the rules , get the better jobs but remain low down in the schoolchildren 's own counter-culture . |
| 19 | Because they had been confused and upset early on in the campaign they found it hard to relax and trust us . |
| 20 | Cycling was the backbone of the Meet right up to the start of the Fifties , but then , says Alan Wilcox , the motor car came within the reach of the working man and that led to the decline of cycling clubs . |
| 21 | Not all of them are strictly mid-ocean — some of them run right up to the continents — but together they form a world-wide network of mountain belts far higher ( above ocean floor level ) and more extensive than any on dry land . |
| 22 | Looking like huge , animated pine-cones , these unusual animals are covered in large , overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long , prehensile tail . |
| 23 | Unless low income-earners can achieve , at a stroke , a very large rise in earnings and jump right out of the trap , it is virtually impossible for them significantly to improve their situation . |
| 24 | Well it 's not because as I say , they actually park right on to the roundabout . |
| 25 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 26 | He put his hand round his neck , made a strange sound , and fell face down on to the floor . |
| 27 | There he pulled off his white turban and let his long black hair coil over his shoulder and drop down on to the ground . |
| 28 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 29 | Run away on to the streets ? |
| 30 | ‘ I know people who travel way out of the area to dig for worms and they end up having their vehicles smashed by other anglers . |