Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 2 | And as discussion moves on to include the other major activities within English — critical discrimination and classroom talk — it becomes clear that the central difficulties remain . |
| 3 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
| 4 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 5 | He had been dropped off a hard chance when just twelve were needed , but went on to hit the winning four off Botham , and his eight wickets and two useful knocks earned him the Man of the Match award . |
| 6 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 7 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
| 8 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 9 | The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots . |
| 10 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 11 | Todorov then goes on to establish the primary categories of his narrative grammar , and they are proper noun , adjective and verb . |
| 12 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 13 | Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated . |
| 14 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 15 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 16 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 17 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 18 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
| 19 | And there you see again in early B R days , er the er the station master 's house , and er er and the station itself , over here , the goods shed over there , the various track works coming across , the er line up to round here , and as I say the various sidings that were put in to accommodate the additional er colliery and other traffic . |
| 20 | The effects must be charming , to see the dark green elm with the lighter shades of the lime and beech or the yellowish green planes with the silver-leaved abele , the Chestnut , the poplar , the acacia , the horse-chestnut , cum multis aliis , when fanned by a gentle breeze , then how beautiful the contrast , how delightfully the light and shade fall in to diversify the sylvan scene . |
| 21 | down to mouth the muffled voices |
| 22 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 23 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 24 | Only when the tenants brought the local newspaper down to see the dead rats and disrepair was the council moved to begin some repairs and rebuild the roof , but not before telling the press what it thought of its tenants . |
| 25 | There were signs that Iraq was withdrawing the military support it had sent in to bolster the Lebanese Army against the Syrians , and the reasons for this could be established more discreetly in Beirut than in Baghdad . |
| 26 | It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Neither stars nor cloud shadows marked the darkness stretching overhead and on down to meet the equal gloom of the ocean . |
| 29 | Her foot connected hard with Benton 's right shin and he yelped in pain , reaching down to massage the throbbing limb . |
| 30 | when , when I went in to work the other day , Pete says I do n't know about that , that Kenwood stuff |