Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price .
2 Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness .
3 However , Cohen also carried out the same experiment using non-letter characters from a typewriter and obtained no consistent effect of set size in either visual half field .
4 Now , if you look at Example 2 , you 'll see that I 've written out the same scale pattern in thirds .
5 She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold .
6 Checked out the same file yesterday .
7 Such a claim can of course be brought in the same action by which the recognition of the automatic hiring and the awarding of the relevant salary is sought .
8 As against this , Pye seems to have worked hard , or got others to do so , in preparing the revenue and expenditure balances and averages of 1635 ( covering the years from 1631 ) and of 1636–9 ; and he appears to have set about the same process for the reconstructed administration of 1641 .
9 Surely it is the fact all the other counties have gone down the same road that has persuaded Yorkshire that , in order to compete on equal terms , they must follow suit .
10 Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out .
11 Funds can be switched on the same day from one currency to another by use of a personal identification number ( PIN ) , free of charge save for the foreign exchange commission of 0.1% , minimum £5 , maximum £20 .
12 It was announced on May 9 that the government of Byelarus had taken over the former Soviet troops in the Byelorussian Military District .
13 If my son and my daughter have n't taken up the same interest in art that I have , I see no reason that they should have , and I see no reason to tell them they ought to study this or they ought to do that .
14 Next day , as Ginger was ridden down the same road , he saw that the bins were still there .
15 Former White Hart Lane chairman Irving Scholar claims Venables often singled out the former England international for criticism over his defending and once tried to sell him .
16 The Yalta agreement of February 1945 had already enshrined the right of the Soviets to retain their forward positions in Eastern Europe and the Potsdam conference later that year further divided up the former Third Reich .
17 However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands .
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