Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tricoteuses of the press who set off to crisscross the country with Mr Major in his campaign plane and bus , many packed lunches ago , accompanied a diffident , decent figure presented in a soft-sell promotional film as a man with whom ordinary people could identify . |
| 2 | Tiller waited until her younger sister was capable of putting over a song and dance , and then sent them off touring the country as a double act . |
| 3 | In his latest film scintillatingly entitled ‘ Dave ’ , he plays a duel role as US president and an ordinary Joe — or should I say Dave — picked out to help the country in crisis . |
| 4 | Hugh goes on to describe the country : |
| 5 | JUST last week , General Manuel Noriega , already the supreme ruler of Panama , had himself named head of government and ‘ maximum leader for national liberation ’ by his personally appointed legislature , which went on to pronounce the country to be in a ‘ state of war ’ with the United States . |
| 6 | Here was the most loved owner in British racing , the most adored individual in British society , about to win the country 's greatest steeplechase — a fitting reward for all that she had put into the sport . |
| 7 | By the way , while I think of it , Anne was just about to leave the country when you rang , but she says when she gets back in September you 're to give her a call . ’ |
| 8 | Thinking Senor Gomorro was about to leave the country without returning to Suffolk they got in touch with colleagues in Oxfordshire . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , there were signs last night that the Interior Ministry is about to recognise the country 's biggest opposition group , New Forum . |
| 10 | In 1849 it was natural that peasant politics in Moravia should take the form of a rumour that the Hungarian revolutionary leader Kossuth was the son of the ‘ peasant emperor ’ Joseph II , close kin of the ancient king Svatopluk , and about to invade the country at the head of a great army . |
| 11 | The high reputation and influence of Anatolian rugs declined rapidly after the First World War , when the creator of modern Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , set about purging the country of Armenians and Greeks . |