Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had to lengthen our stirrup leather and sit down and ride out the horses . |
| 2 | Dr Koenig says as long as both partners sit down and talk out the decision , there should be no long-term ill-effects on the marriage . |
| 3 | Press on and trim around the edges . |
| 4 | They are biological catalysts — other words they trigger off or speed up a process such as the break down of waste in an aquarium . |
| 5 | The two coppers ease off and rip up the carpet . |
| 6 | The S1 and S2 buttons on the GK-2 controller can be used to reassign the footswitches to hold , pitch up or pitch down an octave , control signal modulation or to start or stop the in-built sequencer ( of which more later ) . |
| 7 | These initially hair-like fibres seek out and feed off the cellulose in the wood which is digested by the fungus to leave a dry , desiccated and fragile shell of wood-fibre or lignin which , in the absence of the cementitious cellulose , can not continue to perform any structural role required of the timber . |
| 8 | I climb out and pick up the wood arrow , |
| 9 | The Egyptians gather in a line , thinking more of the cats than of putting out the flames , but the cats dart through or leap over the men and spring into the fire . |
| 10 | The organizer tells a story and , when a couple 's word is mentioned , they jump up and run down the outside of the teams , back to the other end jumping over the legs and then back to their seats . |
| 11 | Those guys did n't stop the car , jump out and pick up a parcel . |
| 12 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 13 | Just fill in and send off the Free Trial Card . |
| 14 | Now I get up and walk around the kitchen table a couple of times , do a dozen stretch-and-bend exercises , then pour myself some more coffee and flop back in my chair . |
| 15 | What seem to be the earliest human figures on Geometric vases are less precisely geometrised than these , and later they fill out and loosen up a little ; but from beginning to end of the period they are thin silhouettes conceptually conceived . |
| 16 | Roll out and cut out a small door shape , and secure on to the bottom of the helter-skelter with a little water . |
| 17 | It was instinct — the natural reaction of a predatory male — that made Ibn Fayoud smile back and press down the automatic window beside him . |
| 18 | Now go on and coop up the fowls and do n't bother me any more with your obstinacy . ’ |
| 19 | Turn off the water , drain down and bale out the cistern to give it a good clean . |
| 20 | Go in and sit down a sec . |
| 21 | Their Game Genie gadget allows players to change the rules , speed up or slow down the action . |
| 22 | They have two guinea pigs now and we also all go out and look around the countryside to find interesting nature things . |
| 23 | They point out that setting up a screening system that is as accurate as the UK one is very difficult . |
| 24 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 25 | they always say , they always turn round and say well the bank is not su supp supposed to divulge how much money you 've got in the bank now , now how did they have any |
| 26 | Family breakdown is common and there are a large number of single parent families , with the result that many grandparents share in or take over the upbringing of their grandchildren and behave as parents to them . |
| 27 | In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father . |
| 28 | If so , provide an opening yourself and as the opponent goes for it , rock back and punch over the top . |
| 29 | Why do a , er , an old lady come in and fill up an ice cream tub , do you mean an old ice cream tub ? |
| 30 | Settle down and live off the back catalogue : I do n't know , I do n't think I 'd just stop . |