Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac .
2 leap in without looking at the detail of it , I think now the function heads namely you ,
3 Finish off by tying with the hanging loose end , cut away the surplus , and tuck it up into the collar out of sight to leave a neat and tidy tie .
4 I's had quite a hang up about getting to the top of it .
5 So they worry , and look back with longing to the good old , bad old days , when there always seemed to be a kind and sturdy neighbour nearby who was willing to pop in to lend a hand to the elderly and disabled , in the closer-knit communities of their youth .
6 Obviously he was the kind of man who could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory as if it had never happened , and get on with living in the present .
7 London has got to stop being so dependent on Dublin and get on with dealing with the problems of Northern Ireland — only five per cent of which are constitutional . ’
8 Erm then we get down to coming into the twentieth century .
9 Even before ministers get down to arguing over the details , they face a row about whether the proposed company statute can be approved by a majority vote ( as the commission would like ) or must be passed unanimously .
10 She watched him drive off before walking up the path to Sam 's house .
11 Most have their own premises with libraries set up with advise from the London secretariat .
12 Okay so there 's lots of showing somebody , actually demonstrating how something is made then doing it together step by step and as you say follow up with going through the whole stage not just making the plane but actually demonstrating how it works .
13 To wit , that Hastings had inadvertently forsaken the preparatory little step back before moving into the kick which does for him , in terms of rhythm , what the forward press does for a golfer .
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