Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun pl] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no need to nail the shelves down , as they ca n't move sideways because of the spacers . |
| 2 | And they have worked out how to channel the eggs out of the nests so as to keep them clean . |
| 3 | Afterwards she helped to clear the table and to carry the pots through into a lean-to kitchen , the room in which they had eaten being the best parlour . |
| 4 | More than £20 million of this would be made available to carry the measures through in Scotland , according to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang . |
| 5 | There is no need to go to extremes and choose bolts that are about 15cm ( 6in ) long as they will be very unwieldy and can cause considerable problems when you want to carry the presses about . |
| 6 | And when we had a down near the banks dyke and it was fenced round and we used to carry the hens down there at night in a sack on your back . |
| 7 | I mean having to come upstairs before you even get into the house is n't very good either , cos I mean with kids you 've got to carry the pushchairs up and everything and carry kids up and carry all your shopping up , it 's not , it 's not very practical having them upstairs . |
| 8 | AS an avid fan of South African rugby , I was delighted to see the 'Boks back playing officially in the international scene . |
| 9 | They made friends with the families who stayed and who bought milk and eggs from them , and they said more than once how good it was to see the lights on across the river again . |
| 10 | ‘ They all want to see the Conservatives back in power . ’ |
| 11 | Without an away win since April , Leeds were continually harassed could ill afford to spurn gilt edge changes like that and Watford continued to harass the champions out of their stride in midfield . |
| 12 | I do n't know if the ranger 's put any seed down or what , but they all seem to like , they all seem to like the smells round here |
| 13 | When they 're about 3 months old , staff will start the tricky procedure of trying to reintroduce the cubs back into the wild . |
| 14 | Two hundred soldiers , assisted by thousands of transmigrasi , were to round the elephants up over a 390 sq . |
| 15 | They had a hammer to drive the nails in . |
| 16 | The typewriter had been made in Delhi many years ago , copied from an English Underwood and reproduced in every detail except for the vital spring to drive the keys back . |
| 17 | Other than irritating wooo-wooo , the predominant noise was a ceaseless 140-beats-per-minute boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi-boom-chi which seems to drive the skaters on to a higher and wilder plateaux of whirling and circling . |
| 18 | Occasionally the Dwarfs will try to drive the Goblins out , or the Goblins will find some tunnel which leads them into the Dwarf tunnels , and the two races battle it out beneath the mountains . |
| 19 | If that failed , a group of ships and boats would have to be used in an effort to drive the whales out into the Pentland Firth . |
| 20 | Beyond the gutter shouting children pursued the polished carriages that rattled towards the rue de la Blanchisserie , but the coachmen were experts with their long whips which snapped sharply back to drive the urchins off . |
| 21 | Even if the Prussian Colonisation Commission had failed to drive the Poles out entirely , many of the old Slav survivors of the original settlement of Pomerania had been drawn into the German language orbit . |
| 22 | William de Casingham fled to the denser Weald with a thousand men , emerging to harry the French until the Earl Marshal could muster enough support to drive the invaders out in 1217 . |
| 23 | Unable to drive the Syrians out of Lebanon , he merely succeeded in extended the civil war into Christian East Beirut . |
| 24 | A large container for housing the spider ( see opposite , Making the cage ) ; two small containers , one with a lid , such as small jam jars or pickle jars — one is to catch the spiders in , the other is to hold water for the twigs ; a shallow container such as the plastic lid of a food pack , to hold the water supply ; some fresh leafy twigs ; some well-branched leafless twigs ; soil ; a metre or two of iron wire , about 1 mm diameter ; pieces of black cardboard ; Copydex or similar adhesive . |
| 25 | He 'll have to try the shoes on . |
| 26 | So , but where I know it is a bit difficult with clothes because a market stall erm you do n't , you do n't normally get a chance to try the clothes on erm and you 're never absolutely sure are these clothes , is this garment going to fit or not ? |
| 27 | well they have erm people from salons come in to try the products out in the if you go and |
| 28 | He 'll have to try the trousers on . |
| 29 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , said a store detective spotted Melia going into a cubicle to try the jeans on . |
| 30 | On other occasions , where the search must be specified with a number of interacting concepts and other parameters , it will be necessary to write the concepts down . |