Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's another sort of things now that we do n't hear is when you sit down at the table to eat erm they 're probably the most the hostess would say now would be , Help yourself . |
| 2 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 3 | Start your arrangement around rim and then build up towards the middle to hide the foam |
| 4 | Cut down to the bone to avoid excessive wastage . |
| 5 | The chief executive of Gwynedd County Council , Huw V Thomas , who is acting as co-ordinator following the flood damage in the Aberconwy area , last night praised the 50 Army personnel for the work they put in during the day to help clear up the mess in the Morfa Conwy and Llandudno Junction areas . |
| 6 | Walk through into the courtyard to find remains of the late 16C designs of the Labours of Hercules . |
| 7 | Individual trade unions also reflected this continuous decline throughout the 1920s and early 1930s ; the coal miners ' union declined from 936,653 members in 1921 to 885,789 in 1925 and to 554,015 in 1932 while , for the same dates , respectively , trade union membership in the railway unions fell from 560,875 to 528,764 and 399,184.46 There also appears to have been no let up in the determination to forge a more effective industrial alliance — even though the General Council stopped short of another general strike . |
| 8 | The moment we walk out into the sun to play we all break out into a heavy sweat . |
| 9 | However , the real action is when you jump into the cockpit and zoom off down the runway to strike a blow against the evil Quadaffi . |
| 10 | Alternatively you can turn right along the forest road then go left and drop down off the road to follow a track and waymarkers down to the car park . |
| 11 | CRUISING slowly in the rush hour traffic , you look down at the radio to switch stations and — bang — the car in front stops suddenly and you 've run into it . |
| 12 | Just before leaving , glance up to the left to see the glazed window through which Franz Kafka gazed upon Catholic services in church from his parents ' flat next door . |
| 13 | And er I mean th the o the question you would use for , for this one is tell me , what are your thou what is it , what are your thoughts on pensions , you know , what are your thoughts on retirement , how do you feel about it just open up for the guy to say it 's very important or I 'm not interested , oh that 's interesting why do you say that . |
| 14 | For hollow walls , you can get special plastic boxes with ‘ wings ’ which open up behind the plasterboard to hold the box in place . |
| 15 | Rudston is basically a farming community , but mechanisation and modernisation have resulted in much less employment than of old and the majority of people now travel out of the village to work . |
| 16 | There was little to do all day but climb in the old beeches and look out over the forest to see where the smoke plumes were . |
| 17 | All we will have to do is look out of the window to determine which hypothesis is correct , and therefore deserves elevation to the status of a theory . |
| 18 | The escort races to the arms cabinet to withdraw the team 's weapons , whilst the others run out to the garage to load the last of the equipment . |
| 19 | Other oddities creep in with the attempt to harmonise plurals of French compound words . |
| 20 | Bright and early next morning , I set off down the lane to work , my drawing pad and pens in my jauntily swinging plastic bag . |
| 21 | Once I had unpacked , I set off down the lane to have a look at the Round Tower before dark . |
| 22 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 23 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 24 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 25 | But look up once from that paper , get up from the table to make coffee or stir the fire , even just raise your head to look at the view outside the window , and you may as well give up until tomorrow . |
| 26 | Downstairs smoke-rooms sent the odour of fine Havana leaf up into the street to mingle with the scent of fresh-roasted coffee or the exhaust of an occasional motorcar . |
| 27 | And when I slam out of the hotel to face Darius in the street , I have Rachel right beside me . |
| 28 | It did n't matter which lead mode I selected , when I 'd pulled enough gain out of the system to create the required feel , the volume had all but gone , rendering the sound pretty unusable since it was way below that of my other patches . |
| 29 | I left Reine early , when all the people who live on the outskirts of Paris pour in to the city to work . |
| 30 | Freedom and self-determination for a small country only seem to count when they go along with the freedom to drive large cars and the freedom to consume . |