Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kicks the dent out . |
| 2 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 3 | Firstly , a research programme should possess a degree of coherence that involves the mapping out of a definite programme for future research . |
| 4 | This direct editing involves the recording in of video inserts and/or audio dubs . |
| 5 | Moreover , not having a job strikes at that aspect of citizenship which involves the carrying out of social duties , one of which is to earn a living for oneself and one 's family . |
| 6 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 7 | The first and best known of these , which may conveniently be referred to as ‘ horizontal ’ devolution , involves the setting up of a machinery of government exercising jurisdiction over a particular geographical area and having powers , within that area of a semi-autonomous nature . |
| 8 | With the latter , the only permissible interaction involves the filtering out , by one component , of alternatives proposed by other components , so in hierarchical terms , no component determines what is produced by any other component beneath it . |
| 9 | He snatches the bag back . |
| 10 | Hearn rides the conveyor back uphill . |
| 11 | The jet lines up at the tanker 's serving carriage and drives the hose back in to open a valve . |
| 12 | Even if Mr Takeshita drives the budget through in the opposition 's absence , he will still need time for some further bills . |
| 13 | He scribbles the absurdity out . |
| 14 | Pete introduces the records , rants about major record companies and provides a sarcastic , leering commentary of the night 's events , while co-presenter Michaela Strachan whips the crowd up with her boundless high spirits and comperes the competitions ’ Pass The Mic ’ ( an insult to Karaoke , where punters sing along to classic hits until the crowd can stand no more , and shout ’ Pass The Mic ! ’ ) , |
| 15 | Grant drags Doug up and whips the line out of his back , chest and arms . |
| 16 | She reaches over and brushes the hair off of my eyes . |
| 17 | He brushes the forelock out of his own eyes , no less awed . |
| 18 | A beginner starts with about 25 push-ups and then gradually over the following months builds the count up to 100 . |
| 19 | At the moment the beetle squirts the liquid out of its tail , an anti-inhibitor is added to make the mixture explosive once again . |
| 20 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 21 | He is not a coach or a trainer who sits the game out , never plays it , but just as a theoretical tactician . |
| 22 | Apart from increasing the risk of contaminating the work bench , this also slows the work down , leading to longer exposure to the radiation . |
| 23 | Slows the work down , makes it dangerous . ’ |
| 24 | It slows the game down so much when you have people killing the ball , but it 's not the fault of the players , it 's the referees who allow it ’ . |
| 25 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 26 | Other Windows word processors show the text re-aligning in real time , which slows the process down a little . |
| 27 | Councils are poised to try to ban Sunday shopping next weekend if the European Court of Justice refers the debate back to the House of Lords this week . |
| 28 | splits the day up in such |
| 29 | Like her husband she laughs the news out of court ( 18.10–15 ) . |
| 30 | But if the pragmatist judge thinks the matter through , he will in the end reject this technique of " prospective-only " rulemaking , except in very special circumstances . |