Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound of the door being opened made her instinctively push the child aside from her . |
| 2 | He needs to know what a ghastly little prick the boy was . |
| 3 | Right bring the tin round here and I 'll find you a pencil right , now bring your Snow White thing round , that 's the best one to use , right |
| 4 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 5 | Right push the door up , push the door up if you 've got pencils , good girl |
| 6 | This , in turn , can be traced to ageist values within society generally , which permeate social and political thinking and thereby influence the extent to which older people as a group are viewed as less important , less in need , or just less interesting than other groups of people ( e.g. Hughes and Mtezuka , 1992 ) . |
| 7 | Try to visualise the meaning of historical writing and thereby make the past come to life . |
| 8 | I thank the Secretary of State for his statement , and I bitterly regret the circumstances that made it necessary . |
| 9 | The House will be aware that Ulster Unionist Members bitterly regret the need for the Secretary of State 's statement . |
| 10 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 11 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 12 | The new rules coming in tomorrow effectively mean the end of the full extent normal rule for people earning £12 or less in a week . |
| 13 | The scheme Branson was outlining would , Birbeck knew , effectively mean the end of the record industry as he , and anybody else , recognised it . |
| 14 | Ensuring that the connector is exactly perpendicular to the ribbon cable place the whole assembly into a vice and slowly squeeze the parts together . |
| 15 | Slowly squeeze the icing on to each cookie , making any pattern you like . |
| 16 | To be sure , there was a time when the Party had hoped to recruit large numbers of keen and politically sophisticated young members , and thereby change the YCs from a social club into a political movement . |
| 17 | Lying on your tummy with elbows pointing outwards , slowly raise the head and shoulders off the floor without straining . |
| 18 | Slowly raise the dumb-bell vertically as high as possible without jerking or rocking , keeping it close to the body . |
| 19 | One-arm dumb-bell rowing — slowly raise the dumb-bell without jerking or rocking , keeping it close to the body |
| 20 | Slowly raise the arms apart until they are horizontal ( keep the elbows slightly bent ) . |
| 21 | However , if those who successfully gain the top , with or without the burden of living-room furniture , feel blessed with the exhilaration and wonder of their surroundings then I am happy for them , and glad they are able to share an emotion I regularly enjoy on the hills . |
| 22 | Both cultures , however , have recently spawned new restaurants in London which thankfully drag the eating-out experience from the outmoded , plastic-flexing Eighties into the less-affluent Nineties . |
| 23 | By going on loading the crystal in shear we can repeat the process indefinitely and eventually squeeze the dislocation out of the far side of the crystal ( Figure 5c ) . |
| 24 | The appropriate response , however , is not to alter the law so as to allow euthanasia , and thereby arguably undermine the respect for life enshrined both in the law and medical training . |
| 25 | Instead they relied on forcing dry wedges of wood into existing cracks in the stone and pouring water on the wood to make it swell and eventually crack the stone . |
| 26 | Find-spots rather favour the arrangement in fig. 124 , but the characterisation seems to fit better if they are made partners of the other men . |
| 27 | When we speak of our economic growth on the basis of market relations ( this is the ‘ meaning ’ of NEP from a certain angle ) , we thereby disprove the thesis of the opposition of socialist accumulation ( even ) to the law of value . |
| 28 | Many of these fundamentally change the systems and organisational requirements of local government particularly in the delivery of an education service . |
| 29 | It is at present impossible to make chronological sense of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs : even the most determined visitors eventually lose the thread and are forced to retrace their steps . |
| 30 | Unstated was the belief that the American Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in the downfall and death of Lumumba who had appealed to the USSR , and thereby upset the United States and also Britain ( Macmillan wrote ‘ our long-term interests would best be served by … a Congo Government … largely depending on American rather than Russian aid and support ’ ) . |