Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , it provided Harold Watkinson with just the precedent that he needed to swing the pendulum back into the centre of the spectrum of war .
2 But Yeo emphasised the guidance was not meant to swing the pendulum back .
3 The temptation to swing the trolley round to face the other way had to be resisted .
4 This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out .
5 The golfer must be in a position to swing the club back .
6 ‘ We think it is time to kill the project off , ’ one official told New Scientist last week .
7 With amateurs there 's no point in paying , they 're likely to kill the victim off anyway , out of fear .
8 That 's right , I do n't think they did have a chance first half and we created maybe eight or nine chances , you know , really good clear chances and really we need to be putting more that one away and we need to kill the game off first half when we 're so superior in that sort of performance , you know .
9 I regard barbaric sport , not only perhaps as fox hunting but also such things as boxing , where two people , two individuals do their best to hit the life out of the other and it is watched by thousands of people .
10 Great care should be taken before attempting to drain the water out of this type of system — the boiler must be let out first .
11 The engineer says he wants to drain the oil out of the catchment tank as there 's no point in doing anything as costly as G. 's suggestion to begin with .
12 But he said when he and his pregnant wife Julie came to claim the furniture back , they were told it had vanished during a burglary in November .
13 Depending on your personal tax position you may still be able to claim the tax back .
14 There are cases where the Policyholder is registered for VAT and is able to claim the VAT back .
15 There can be no doubt in anybody 's eyes that the failure of the H S E to enforce the law along with unscrupulous employers , exploiting low inspection rates , mean that the role played by G M B safety reps and those who provide our backup service , are more important than ever before .
16 Even so , she would still like to mull the thing over with Bridget .
17 You will probably find it easiest to slide the mast in at an angle like this until the collar fits neatly underneath the mast gate .
18 He drove about in a horse and cart and one of his tricks was to whip the horse up into a canter and crouch down behind the seat so people would think it had bolted .
19 Pickering lost the ball on the edge of his own area allowing Gooding to thread the ball through for the unchallenged Maskell to shoot home .
20 Pickering lost the ball on the edge of his own area , allowing Gooding to thread the ball through for Maskell to shoot home .
21 If a company pays a dividend during a ‘ dormant ’ period — ie when it is not within the charge to corporation tax — the Inland Revenue has been known to argue that the company will not be able to carry the ACT back against its prior tax liabilities .
22 you 're , you 're going to carry the milk back James , right let's get these rain covers behind you
23 ‘ I 'm the one who has to carry the guilt around .
24 And the other thing is , I want to carry the computer around with me .
25 He attributed the offence to pressure from his friends to carry the scheme out , when it was thought up .
26 Then Morton helped to carry the equipment in from the growler .
27 It is this phase where there are many failures because the size of task being addressed is large ; normally there has been a formal specification of the work to be done , and the technologist has not the experience nor the qualifications to carry the work through .
28 I resent the inference in your questions that one of us visited that apothecary and secured the poison to carry the murder out . ’
29 In Nina 's stories it is Modigliani who was pushed off the bench , made to carry the beer in for a party .
30 But I find it hard to believe in a second exceptionally heavy wash from a boat in the same morning — one so heavy as to carry the body off again . ’
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