Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thin out the parsley sown in July . |
| 2 | The most important economic , political and cultural-ideological goods that circulate around the globe tend to be owned and/or controlled by small groups in a relatively small number of countries . |
| 3 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
| 4 | His eyes still dart around the room looking for a weapon . |
| 5 | This advantage stems from the fact that the companies and organisations that make up the market tend to be clustered together , for instance on a geographical basis , or by product type . |
| 6 | I pass on the advice given by the Lochcarron police : Do n't panic , the pilots know what they are doing and where they are going . |
| 7 | Attach a ‘ bandage ’ to the arm and drape over the sarcophagus to look as if it is unravelling . |
| 8 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 9 | They get out the plastic to pay for the double-decker load of food . |
| 10 | The Accounting Standards Board ( ASB ) has published for comment an exposure draft of the Foreword to UITF Abstracts explaining the authority , scope and application of the Urgent Issues Task Force ( UITF ) abstracts issued by the ASB which set out the consensus reached by the UITF on particular issues . |
| 11 | If I was of a mind to stop washing and shaving and go live in a bus and drive around the country shitting in farmers ' fields and killing their sheep and being hassled by the pigs and pilloried by the Daily Star and generally being ‘ free ’ , this is the record I would choose to do it to . |
| 12 | You start out with good intentions , helping with the homework , making it fun : you lay out the chocolate drops on the giant musical stave and challenge them to find the note ‘ B ’ and eat it : you run supportively alongside the wobbling bicycle , getting your ankles chewed up by sharp pedals . |
| 13 | Roll out the fondant icing into a large round or square ( depending on the size and shape of the cake to be covered ) , about 10cm ( 4inches ) larger all round to allow for the sides . |
| 14 | And not a snigger is heard as a group of teenage boys sit around the table talking about sex . |
| 15 | Okay erm , if we just turn over the sheet look at distribution of er of the F statistic . |
| 16 | Clean up the pipe threads with a wire brush and reassemble , after wrapping white ptfe tape round the threads in a clockwise direction . |
| 17 | We go round the group deciding on whether he/she is happy or unhappy , old or young , what they do , how they feel . |
| 18 | To eliminate these defects we must remove the reference to inference and tighten up the relation specified between the false beliefs and the true justified ones which are not to count as knowledge . |
| 19 | Whether you wish to stay with one particular authority or move around the country working for different types of authorities , the prospects for promotion are excellent . |
| 20 | As the two fighters move around the area looking for an opening in each other 's defence , various manoeuvres to distract and break the opponent 's concentration can be employed . |
| 21 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 22 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 23 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 24 | You either hear this truth or you crawl along the ground looking for worms . |
| 25 | Check out the wrist scars from the operations . |
| 26 | a ) Work out the length marked with a ? . |