Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] the [noun sg] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets . |
| 2 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 3 | Cook the din-dins , put the cat out , clear up the junk on the great man 's desk , and hope my lord throws me a kind word from time to time . |
| 4 | I really I really do wish it was that simple and I wish that when I pick up The Star on a Thursday or one of the other local papers that I did n't read in it the twenty cars that 's broken into and and all the other problems and I say to myself now why did that happen . |
| 5 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 6 | If you would like to come , please fill in the form on the last page of this news . |
| 7 | Please fill in the questionnaire on the following page : questions 1 to 9 tell us what you are already doing ; questions 10 to 14 are your chance to let us know what you want from Amnesty . |
| 8 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 9 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 10 | Huy watched him cross the little square in front of his house and disappear around the corner on the way back to the palace compound . |
| 11 | On trips into London after we 'd finally moved to Wales , I would raid skips and bring back the booty on the car roof-rack . |
| 12 | Roll out the pastry on a floured surface and use to line a 23cm/9in flan tin that is at least 2.5cm/1in deep . |
| 13 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large rectangle and use to cover the entire cake , smoothing over the corners and keeping a ‘ sloping ’ effect on the roof . |
| 14 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large circle and use to cover the cake , tucking the edges underneath and smoothing over the curve . |
| 15 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a large circle ( about 25cm/10inches ) . |
| 16 | Roll out the marzipan on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour into a large rectangle and use to cover the base , smoothing into the hollow and over the corners , and trimming away excess from around the bottom . |
| 17 | Roll out the dough on a floured surface to a 5mm/¼in thickness and stamp or cut out festive shapes ( see equipment , page 92 ) . |
| 18 | Thinly roll out the icing on a surface dusted with icing sugar . |
| 19 | No , but when you switch on the telly on a Saturday afternoon there 's football , football , football ! |
| 20 | And er , see , my father , when they used to start the rounds , they used to start , go down the Fen on a Tuesday , er the man what worked for him over the road George worked for him there , a chap named George and my father used to go round Wicken , that 's three miles away from here . |
| 21 | Turn right and follow the road for a third of a mile to the roundabout , continue for 200yds and go over the stile on the right . |
| 22 | Go right and fall down , go left and push the crate right onto the button , go left to a wall , duck down and crawl under it , go left and fall down , go right , fall down and collect the main tape deck , go right , then up on the platforms , right , down , and collect the battery , push the crate left and go up on the lift , go left to a button , then jump two platforms to your right , and then onto the platform to your left , push the crate down onto the button and fall down , go up on the lift , then right to the next lift , go up the passage on the lift and ledge , and then go left along the top . |
| 23 | You fire up the engine on the starter button and the mechanic waves you out into the pit lane and you realize that the overall purpose of a racing car 's design is that you should feel a pure sense of yourself in propulsion . |
| 24 | Try out the programme on a sample of appropriate students to test the reliability of the sequence . |
| 25 | Try out the microscope on a piece of newspaper . |
| 26 | Go left to the block marked 5 , and carry on the gem on the right-hand side of the screen . |
| 27 | Cross over the stile on the left and follow the path down , over the stream and down a slope . |
| 28 | The lightstick lasts for up to six hours sometimes longer you tee up the ball on every shot so that you ca n't hit the light stick out when this game is played the flags are all lit up with bigger lightsticks . |
| 29 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 30 | Others divide up the bookfund on a departmental basis and leave the librarian only a minimal allocation to balance up departmental orders . |