Example sentences of "[verb] press " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eyeshadows are a tricky one to be able to do in store — there must be 100 different browns alone , they 'd need to be mixed as a loose powder and sold pressed … ’ |
| 2 | CAPILLARY REFILL TEST : This involves pressing your thumb onto the horse 's gum . |
| 3 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 4 | Surely you realize that when the button is illuminated someone has pressed it ? ’ |
| 5 | The UK Government has pressed beneficiaries of UK development aid to respect human rights , but the death penalty has not been raised in the negotiations . |
| 6 | The dark rim around the bright mound is artefactual : the coverslip has pressed the top of the mound down into the plane of optical section and thereby pushed down the epidermis around the foot of the mound below that plane . |
| 7 | — The nerves like dull burns where the sheet has pressed — |
| 8 | The bar also has pressed ribbing to make it non-slip and can be supplied either left or right handed . |
| 9 | In these circumstances the Soviet Union has pressed more recently for a more limited regime for the Gulf involving restrictions on the naval presence of the Great Powers in the region . |
| 10 | The Association has pressed for a clear-cut answer on this issue and has not received it . |
| 11 | His modest apology for tardiness in producing this volume is unnecessary in any terms , considering the magnitude of his task , and when in addition one realises that he has pressed on with the completion of the work during his convalescence from a serious illness , it is clear that his apology should be replaced by the public 's commendation . |
| 12 | Sahlins has pressed this argument particularly hard , criticising what he calls ‘ vulgar sociology ’ which suggests ‘ a one-to-one parallel between the character of human biological propensities and the properties of human social systems ’ . |
| 13 | The codex secretariat has pressed governments to encourage more consumer groups to attend . |
| 14 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 15 | The Government refused to accord the privately owned press the right to claim absolute freedom of expression , since this right could be used against the majority who were voiceless . |
| 16 | However , as a very occasional desperation measure if a flower or leaf is useless because it has inadvertently been creased or folded , I have been known to try pressing it with an iron on the lowest setting . |
| 17 | If you press this one , if you press record it wo n't because there 's a tape in but if you just press press record automatic and you press record and the play button but you ca n't press just the record button . |
| 18 | The only comfortable position was standing up because then the fluid drained away and stopped pressing against his lungs . |
| 19 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 20 | Decisions relating to press freedom |
| 21 | Gorbachev , in his response to the results , nonetheless claimed that they had received a mandate for the ‘ renewal and strengthening of the union state ’ and promised to press ahead with the conclusion of the union treaty and a new constitution . |
| 22 | Deng 's campaign was given prominent support by a large number of provincial governors attending the session , many of whom promised to press ahead with economic reforms regardless of central policies . |
| 23 | Because you 're secretly dying to press that delightful body up against me and find out how it feels ? ’ |
| 24 | Some sellers of British Gas shares , prior to delivery of allotment letters , who had responded to press advertisements of the share-dealer Walter L Jacob & Co Ltd which has now been wound up , were told to send Jacob a cheque for half the proceeds . |
| 25 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 26 | I think colleagues on this side will seek to press the minister even further on the latest developments in France and indeed what influence we can have to make sure that if we pass these orders today , they do become the basis of the European elections . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , members who were not part of the £116m Outhwaite out-of-court settlement have voted to press their claims for compensation through the 1992 Outhwaite Names Association . |
| 28 | Martin will need to press ahead with the new football stadia report . |
| 29 | But he wants to press on with others despite American misgivings : full implementation of UN sanctions , UN policing of the border between Serbia and Bosnia , peacekeepers for havens in Bosnia and the setting up of a war-crimes court . |
| 30 | Before he answers , and in order to assist all hon. Members , perhaps he will say whether , like me , he wants to press the Bill to a vote at the end of Third Reading ? |