Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You will load your aeroplanes with T.N.T. , ’ he said , ‘ fly in line-astern to Corps H.Q. , and crash on to the roof of the Corps commander 's chateau , in alphabetical order . ’ |
| 2 | Guests are often late and rarely sit down at the table on time . |
| 3 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 4 | For the first set of songs , I had more to do with that side mainly because I 'm the guitarist , and I sit down with the guitar for 3 or 4 hours every day , so there 's always a riff there . |
| 5 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 6 | 3 Push down with the hand on the elbow , forcing your fingers to travel further down your spine . |
| 7 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 8 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 9 | Many parents and teachers back down in the face of a massive tantrum . |
| 10 | He said the key to SmithKline 's success was its ability to market and sell brands and cash in on the potential of new products . |
| 11 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 12 | The most convenient way to arrange this is to move HIMEM down by the length of the program and load the machine code program in to this protected area . |
| 13 | We wrote to the Secretary of State after you passed that motion so it appears from the correspondence we have back from the Secretary of State that they are bloody minded on this one and they 're going to , he 's going to support , press on with the imposition of V A T and since that time we we see he 's well supported by the cabinet . |
| 14 | The world will applaud , and rightly press on with the lifting of sanctions . |
| 15 | You may also like to cut out a ‘ horizon ’ of white fondant and press on to the base of the cake drum to resemble hills below . |
| 16 | Press on to the end of the cake . |
| 17 | Press on to the front of the hutch for the rabbit 's body . |
| 18 | There was a small-screen TV that some Helsinki taxis fit on to the back of the driving seat . |
| 19 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is appalling that the Opposition whinge on about the failure of this country to export , when we know that what we need from both sides of the House is unanimity to help exporters and not complaints about them ? |
| 20 | The rudder and tiller assembly simply slot on to the back of the boat but the important thing to remember is that the tiller must go underneath the rope force before the rudder is clipped on . |
| 21 | Then again they would just stand there , or squat down in the shade of a sand hill , their eyes fixed on the two endless parallels , following them out until they joined and lost themselves in the bush . |
| 22 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon . |
| 23 | Tap down with the top of the formwork . |
| 24 | Lower the slab in place , then tap down with the handle of a club hammer . |
| 25 | The fifteenth hole is short but dangerous ; its plateau green is ringed by bunkers at the front and sides and the trees press in at the back in a claustrophobic way — a nightmarish hole if you are playing badly . |
| 26 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 27 | The eclipses of December 9 , 1992 , and those on May 21 , June 4 and November 29 in 1993 all home in on the area of profession and your personal hopes and dreams . |
| 28 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 29 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 30 | The chapter will therefore end by taking a look at recent and forthcoming developments in manufacturing to see how these fit in with the idea of generic strategies and their implications for accounting — i.e. not just now , but for the foreseeable future . |