Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
2 When you sit down in the examination room with the usual small table in front of you , the situation should be familiar and comfortable from the long practice you have carried out .
3 We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve .
4 Rub down of the port intake area was underway when this shot was taken .
5 Next remove all the old putty from both parts of the joint and give the metal surfaces a good rub down with a wire brush and , if necessary , abrasive paper before applying two coats of bitumastic paint .
6 Before starting the repair , remove all debris and loose rust and rub down with a wire brush and abrasive paper
7 From this vantage you peer down into the crater lake , its surface green with the fresh growth of ‘ totora ’ , a reed otherwise known only in the Andes .
8 P. P. Sometimes , when we were going in at night , when it was wet , we would try and put a mac on and slip down to A Division parade room — hang the mac up quick and dive into your coat .
9 Slip along to the mortuary office , would you , Sergeant , and see if you can get some cardboard boxes for the cartridges , and wrapping paper and string for the clothes , while I let the doctor know that the body is ready for him . "
10 Nip down to the Marriage Guidance Council ?
11 " Just nip down to the dining room and put the tiniest whisky , only up to here , " she held three of Nicandra 's fingers against the glass , rolling empty on the eiderdown " very nice , too .
12 Carve through with a power axe , and quickly ! ’ he bellowed .
13 In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink .
14 Again , send off for the school prospectus and find out the school 's aims and objectives .
15 The dust build up on the fan housing is dust which has already passed through the unit — and the disk drives !
16 In the case of policemen at Easton , this sport is situationally constrained by the common-sense knowledge they build up of the court room setting and its players .
17 These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones .
18 IN A WARM UP TO THE EVENING Standard newspaper 's five a side football competition , a team from Guinness Brewing GB called the Harp Beaters was entered into the preliminary competition on the day before the main tournament .
19 I report back to the hotel room , defeated .
20 I also think that having to report back would assist with dealing with the many , many people who have complained about the state of our footpaths network but individual complaints and with user groups and we 're off to see representatives out of County Council , they 're not here today but they 're off to hear it at our Committee meetings and I do think that having an officially report back to the Environment Committee would assist in meeting their requirements would be good P R. Thank you .
21 Keyence 's salesmen report back to the research department on what new machines their customers would find useful .
22 When safely across the river , remembering of course to unclip your lifeline , take off the safety helmet , undo your life jacket , and slip out of the survival suit , the route passes beneath the splendid waterfall and starts to climb up to An Gearanach , not marked by name on the ordnance survey map .
23 Half way down he heard a commotion below and quickened his heavy step in time to see , as he turned the last bend in the staircase , a slight figure slip out through the iron gate at the main entrance .
24 If you have any choice in the matter , try to do this on the south-facing side , and as the bud will grow out to the south , rows should lie east-west , so that the shoots grow out into the row space , and not into each other .
25 Shell out for a nest egg
26 What they want out of a gang fight is a nice big bruise … that they can show around during the week . ’
27 I 'm watching Chris and Dave fool around at a disc presentation ceremony , a routine they 're well versed in by now , and talking kilt tartans to Matt Cameron from Soundgarden , who were due to play here with Guns N' Roses the following night but the gig 's been cancelled .
28 Based on an 8km circuit of the Can and Chelmer , teams could opt to race 40 or 80km and change over at the race centre as often as they liked .
29 If they do not and you are at first-floor level , climb on to the window sill and let yourself hang feet first , facing the wall , before letting go to lessen the height of your fall .
30 For the grass , colour royal icing green and spread on to the cake drum , making little tufts with a palette knife .
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