Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheshire Railtours are planning a rail tour up the WCML to Carlisle and return via the S & C on Saturday 17th April 1993 , cost £20 . |
| 2 | The input/output address of the VidiPC card can be easily changed by setting a jumper switch on the board . |
| 3 | As the Revenue only allow a 10% mark up the tax gains can not exceed 1.5% of the turnover put through the company . |
| 4 | Then , distant beyond the broad bowl full of skeleton walls , she saw the headlights of a car pass on the road to Silcaster , sweeping eerily across the filigree of stonework and grass , and vanishing again at the turn of the highway . |
| 5 | A HOSPITAL has sounded a safety alert over the packaging of oils used in ‘ alternative ’ medicine after two youngsters drank them from bottles . |
| 6 | And always when a funeral come down the school road , there 's blinds would be taken down as well . |
| 7 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 8 | Nor is the powerful Watsonian short of leadership experience , having skippered Watson 's College , Scottish Schools ( notably to a shock win over the England Schools in 1980 ) , Watsonians , Cambridge University , London Scottish , the Anglo Scots , the Barbarians at the Hong Kong Sevens and , also last season , the senior aide in the official Scottish trial when his gifts of inspiration by personal example almost turned the tide . |
| 9 | A nice half-day excursion would be to Monte and Terreiro da Luta , still within the city of Funchal but a bus or a taxi ride up the hillside at the back of the city . |
| 10 | When they were asked afterwards , both Owen and North admitted that they had never imagined ‘ a victory march down the streets of Managua ’ . |
| 11 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
| 12 | We are also arranging a litter pick round the centre of the village on Saturday 3rd April staring at 10.30 a.m. from the Mill Yard . |
| 13 | ‘ But if we could swap jobs for one day my first task would be to address the Free World wearing the Everton strip , then run a Blues flag up the mast at the White House . ’ |
| 14 | After continuing to Paignton , the party changed platforms for a short steam hauled run over the scenic Paignton & Dartmouth Railway , operated by the Dart Valley Railway Company , and a river cruise up the Dart with a difference . |
| 15 | If you selected a word hold down the Shift key and click on the last word of the selection — similarly for paragraphs . |
| 16 | Take a camel ride up the slopes or a coach tour around the summit . |
| 17 | He wore a baggy tracksuit with what looked like a jam stain down the front and egg yolk all down the sleeve . |
| 18 | Using a worksheet draw up the balance sheet and profit and loss account for the business whose transactions are set out below : |
| 19 | Rightly , the decoration is simple and understated ; a single thin black line separating the spruce from the maple binding , a well-proportioned herringbone soundhole rosette , a marquetry stripe down the centre of the back and small pearl dot-markers running up the fingerboard . |
| 20 | Pushing a broom handle up the tube will allow you to push the plunger up to this moulded shoulder and into the tube . |
| 21 | If a teacher at the time of appointment has agreed to play a part in the larger framework and in the long-term plan for a school , the head will after a time weigh up the capacity of the new colleague to add his or her contribution to the larger task . |
| 22 | And a chap come out the offices and say right , you you you . |
| 23 | How could such an affliction strike down the Liverpool manager , a 38-year-old fitness fanatic , who was playing in midfield for Scotland and Liverpool only two years ago ? |