Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 2 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 3 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 4 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 5 | In fact , my dear , we 've looked out the old bath chair . |
| 6 | I 've done all the New Man stuff . |
| 7 | And I 'm sure you 've seen where the chief constable says he wants more bobbies on the beat , well perhaps this is a way to a to achieving that . |
| 8 | Right let me stop you there because I think you 've got maybe the wrong end of the stick . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think you 've got quite the right idea , Lili , ’ said my mother . |
| 10 | He thinks you 've become quite the little horsewoman . ’ |
| 11 | No , a mere little child , but pressure , yes I mean you 've hit exactly the right word , which makes the game and the big occasions very different . |
| 12 | I 've printed only the successful child of each generation ( i.e. the parent of the next generation ) and one or two of its unsuccessful sisters . |
| 13 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 14 | There 's a pier here which we 've put on the new map erm and this is south promenade . |
| 15 | I 've mentioned already the Secondary Science Curriculum Review . |
| 16 | They 've changed quite the opposite way because er I now know that it can be done and how important advertising is to the even to the local businesses . |
| 17 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 18 | In view of these limitations , and knowing Father 's esteem for conciseness , I have listed here the revised round of duties he will from now on be expected to perform . ’ |
| 19 | Pollution and the removal of riverside hedges have played their part ; but above all , dredging and drainage have ironed out the varied bed conditions of gravel and silt to which the larvae of these and many other insects were so minutely adapted . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , reviews of the whole gamut of recreational traffic models in rural areas , including trip generation models , distribution models , direct demand modelling , traffic assignment models , system simulation ( Miles and Smith , 1977 ) , and gravity models ( Baxter and Ewing , 1981 ) have pointed out the following deficiencies which still need to be remedied by further research on : |
| 21 | Theologically-minded critics have pointed out the Christian precedents to Wordsworth 's view of Nature . |
| 22 | I am in no doubt about that , particularly as I have toured regularly the difficult areas in all parts of the country . |
| 23 | Spokesman Tony Ward said the BAF were ‘ sad for Jason Livingston , ’ but added : ‘ We have carried out the right procedures and we would fight any court case to the bitter end to defend our position . ’ |
| 24 | Only recently , Indian organisations such as the Shuar Federation have persuaded the government to grant legal titles to communal Indian land holdings , and in some cases this has been possible only after foreign volunteers have carried out the necessary land surveys . |
| 25 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |
| 26 | In an improbable , but typical , detour in a review of a book about corsets , she asks : ‘ How has it come about that feminists have picked up the masculine notion that those women who are n't self-confessed feminists do n't known what they 're doing , half the time ? ’ |
| 27 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 28 | But however different these patterns may be , key ideas will be repeated in each , and by the time you have written down the key words referring to your topic from half a dozen texts , you will be halfway to having the skeleton articulated . |
| 29 | Although as we have seen earlier the decorative qualities of gold could be explored by direct hammering , the archaeological record shows that goldsmithing of a sophisticated kind in fact developed in communities which practised copper or bronze metallurgy . |
| 30 | The name Champagne comes from the Latin campagna , signifying open , unforested land : an ambiguous origin for those who have seen only the hilly vineyards of Champagne surmounted by forest . |