Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These lay down the marvellously patterned and polished surface characteristic of cowries . |
| 2 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 3 | The jammers , at a cost of $3.5 million per plane , are designed to identify radars , single out the most dangerous ones and then transmit electronic signals to deceive or interfere with the radars of the hostile air defence weapons . |
| 4 | There 's nothing around the sides of the stage except cold brick walls and if you put anything there you cut down the already poor sight lines even more . |
| 5 | Besides , though sociologists may not legitimately seek to heighten or improve the speech they collect , for purposes of quotation they certainly seek out the most concentrated , the most dramatic instances they can find . |
| 6 | or the team is first to identify the word in any hang on , hang on the only the time the die is rolled to advance the token is when a word is identified within the one minute time limit comma or a team is first to identify the word in any all play situation . |
| 7 | ( Melastomataceae ) , while in the Malay Peninsula , raindrops run down the longitudinally dehisced capsules of Didymocarpus spp . |
| 8 | The ‘ all or nothing ’ fears do not in this case apply and we may be encouraged to re-examine whether there is some give in the apparently uncompromising need for bit-perfect records of program software . |
| 9 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 10 | The only question marks hang over the slightly corny lyrical content of some of his compositions and over whether he 's maybe working a little too closely to the Gavin Friday scheme of things . |
| 11 | We no longer lock up the mentally deranged , although they were locked up until well into the twentieth century ; certainly we do not allow them to be paraded for the general amusement of our population . |
| 12 | The user can then view items of interest and print out the most important ones . |
| 13 | right , you go upstairs , pick up the most expensive article they 've got and then you go downstairs to the customer relations department and say I bought this article yesterday and say , and , and I 'm afraid |
| 14 | The hairs on its furry body are covered with microscopic hooks which pick up the slightly sticky pollen grains as the bee busies around the flower . |
| 15 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
| 16 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 17 | The package tour is particularly appropriate to the personality traits of compliance and sociability which make up the typically British temperament . |
| 18 | Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group . |
| 19 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
| 20 | As they set up the now empty suit with its back to the door , half slumped over a control panel , he settled down behind the curtained entrance of the showers . |
| 21 | Here you turn left and drive up the scenically splendid road to the Col de Marie-Blanque . |
| 22 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 23 | In other words , does English criminal law pick out the most heinous forms of killing as murders and manslaughters , or are the boundaries frozen by tradition ? |
| 24 | So often they have to pay the price of innovations , and those who watch their activities and pick out the most promising , usually devise the most profitably and sustainable systems . |
| 25 | Pour in the very hot water , cover tightly and cook vigorously for 2 minutes . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , some of our best intellects turn out the most miserable specimens of penman-ship conceivable and some of them are almost indecipherable . |
| 27 | The qualities which they attribute to literacy thus take on the more general significance of justifying the vast expense on western education systems . |
| 28 | Note the selection headings for these areas and write down the most important features of the case that occur in each of these sections in a layout that will make the next step easy for you . |
| 29 | The end would come up and , and keep your load level on the ground you see , otherwise if you were a straight jib , they 'd come down and further you come down the further , the lower your load get . |
| 30 | Despite this , he promised that his government would neither challenge press freedom nor take over the privately owned Times of Zambia . |