Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Plastic pins simply pushed in to secure the lower half of the handle to the body of the mower . |
| 32 | Excluding the para-military National Guard , they number only 4,400 , whereas the normal US garrison of about 10,000 men had already been augmented to 13,000 before airborne units parachuted in to secure the international airport and clear the way for further reinforcements . |
| 33 | Neither stars nor cloud shadows marked the darkness stretching overhead and on down to meet the equal gloom of the ocean . |
| 34 | Her foot connected hard with Benton 's right shin and he yelped in pain , reaching down to massage the throbbing limb . |
| 35 | when , when I went in to work the other day , Pete says I do n't know about that , that Kenwood stuff |
| 36 | She bent down to retrieve the best china from the floor , whilst Ray picked up teaspoons with one hand and dabbed at the goat 's milk with the other holding his handkerchief . |
| 37 | The Kestrel brought along to try the new boxes for size liked his new home so much , he did n't want to come out ! |
| 38 | Proposals are that a union vote should be broken down to reflect the divergent views in a union 's membership and apportioned accordingly . |
| 39 | This in turn explains why the infinitive can evoke both the wide range of all possible realizers ( as in To visit the poor is a Christian obligation ) and the narrowing down of this range to one particular spatial support ( for instance , to the speaker as in Oh to be in England … ) . |
| 40 | But despite Roebuck 's tip the Wallaby fullback is sure to be at the top of the list when Dwyer and his fellow selectors sit down to choose the first Test team to play Scotland in June . |
| 41 | The Arches were subsequently cleared of infestation and the public were allowed in to view the prehistoric relics . |
| 42 | WALES chiefs Alan Davies and Robert Norster face a rare new headache tonight as they sit down to pick the first squad of an exciting new season . |
| 43 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 44 | Rioting became common and the British Army had to be called in to replace the overstretched Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 45 | Leeds , though , had good spells and 37-year-old Day , their goalkeeping coach brought in to replace the injured John Lukic , said : ‘ City were n't four goals better than us but the players need a rest . |
| 46 | Wright will have a key role in Vilnius tomorrow as Northern Ireland begin what has been disparagingly described as the ‘ battle of the also-Manager Billy Bingham is unlikely to make many changes from the team which lost 3–1 in Spain last month ; Iain Dowie should come in to replace the injured Philip Gray . |
| 47 | Inhutani II has been brought in to replace the multinational Scott company , which pulled out of the project at the end of 1989 after an intensive campaign by environmental groups , centred around the Women 's Environmental Network and Survival International . |
| 48 | New dealers are then brought in to replace the dishonoured ones . |
| 49 | When a purpose-designed cap was brought in to replace the humble condom , it was reported that the mine-laying frogmen were less than happy , having regarded the prior item as something of a ‘ perk ’ of the job . |
| 50 | He said : ‘ In these exceptional circumstances the moisture content was bound to be much higher than usual , leading to additional costs in drying down to reach the normal intervention standards of 14.45pc . ’ |
| 51 | Meanwhile our three cutters , Active , Safeguard and Swift also came out of hiding , the roar of their engines sounding a death knell for Eloise as they closed in to arrest the white yacht . |
| 52 | It is so easy to do , but if you leave a tin of polish and the duster on the stairs say , while you go up and then have to dash down to answer the front door bell , you can easily slip on them . |
| 53 | Through his binoculars , Campana now watched a counter-attack go in to retake the lost trenches , led by a young lieutenant of his class at St. Cyr , wearing white gloves . |
| 54 | The INLA has also revamped in the past two months and is posing a new threat in North Belfast , where 80 RUC officers have been drafted in to halt the escalating spiral of violence . |
| 55 | Was n't that the time when the Bank of England stepped in to avoid the whole City suffering ? |
| 56 | But between political reform and economic crisis , even Hungary will think hard before giving way to emotion and sending its forces in to help the beleaguered Hungarian Romanians . |
| 57 | EC aid sought in line battle THE European Community could be asked to step in to help the threatened Wensleydale railway . |
| 58 | This creative period was followed by an exploitive period in which many theoretical physicists moved in to apply the new mechanics to a host of significant problems . |
| 59 | More sand has been put in to cover the high water table . ’ |
| 60 | Ward asked , leaning forward and putting his big nose down to sniff the pale liquid . |