Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be no one to carry on the Drennan name , no one to inherit his land . |
| 2 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 3 | Ten years from now I 'm gon na be 52 , and I 'm not going to be able to go down the Hacienda without looking a complete prat . |
| 4 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 5 | The barges used to come down the Leeds and Liverpool canal right down to Tate and Lyle 's , where they had chutes that came down from the building into the barges and the coal was sucked up because the coal was very fine ; and the poor people there — they 'd be on the other side of the canal and one would perhaps get on a barge and throw two or three pieces of coal and then scamper up . |
| 6 | If you were to come down the Cowley Road — I invite you to come down and and come and see the situation , because , you know , if I said okay anyone can smoke or drink in the church or churchyard in Saint Mary and John , the building would be full , not full literally , but we 'd have people all day in there smoking and drinking and there would be nowhere quiet for people to pray . |
| 7 | Oxford United 's new owners are still trying to shake off the Maxwell legacy . |
| 8 | Even if these things can be believed , it would be foolish to write off the Khmers Rouges . |
| 9 | One possibility was " to write off the Shah and proceed on the unpalatable consumption that Mosadeq is the indisputable ruler of Persia and the only bulwark against Communism " In the end , however , the prime minister advisers decided that it was almost prudent for Britain to follow the American line . |
| 10 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 11 | GOSPEL singer Michael Card will play the Assembly Hall in Belfast tonight — and still be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to dash up the Antrim Coast for the North West 200 . |
| 12 | The evening was cold and misty , the fog beginning to creep up the Thames and to sneak into the alleyways on either side of the river . |
| 13 | Thus ‘ the Soviet police ’ tended to conjure up the KGB . |
| 14 | Enough light would spill inwards from the porch as the door closed slowly on its damper , enough at least for him to get to his own door and line up the key ; but when it came to it he hurried too much and was trying to shake out the Yale when the front door put him in darkness . |
| 15 | No it 's bad for you wo n't be half busy to come out the Sunday before Christmas wo n't it ? |
| 16 | But Melody ( 6-4 fav ) , feeling the strain of a gruelling season , failed by three and a half lengths to pull back the Isle of Man-owned winner . |
| 17 | In desperation I phoned all over London to track down the PR firm who organized the lunch . |
| 18 | I 'm trying to track down the Presley hoard . |
| 19 | There was still an urgent need for an international effort to clean up the Gulf and to study the long-term effects of the spills and the burning , the organization said . |
| 20 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 21 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 22 | The Danube Environmental Programme , which aims to clean up the Danube basin , may be frustrated by the enormous amount of pollution coming from Croatia . |
| 23 | He had described as " a fraud " the recent attempts under KGB chairman Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov to clean up the KGB 's public image and stress its role in fighting genuine crime . |
| 24 | On Saturday , more than 15,000 demonstrators ignored an official ban and rain to march through Minsk demanding local authorities do more to clean up the Chernobyl accident . |
| 25 | Now before you do anything , if we set set it to pick up the Panasonic K X P Eleven Twenty Four |
| 26 | Everyone made it back to the rendezvous where they laid up for the day , returning in the evening to pick up the SBS group which had managed to deal with the radio station . |
| 27 | So it was that — ill-equipped , ignoring all warnings , and unable to pick up the BBC World Service on our radio — we confronted El Jocoso without guides and in a thunderstorm . |
| 28 | The Ethiopian government and the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) guerrillas , responding to an Oct. 4 request from 30 international aid agencies , reportedly reached an agreement on Nov. 23 to open up the Red Sea port of Massawa to UN relief vessels . |
| 29 | The EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market . |
| 30 | These measures would help to open up the UDC area , and encourage more people to live and work in the area . |