Example sentences of "[noun] clear [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 2 | When a mis-fire occurred it was the practice to clear out the hole down to the powder , insert the pricker , and again stem the hole . |
| 3 | Does the Minister agree that he and his colleagues are responsible , first , for refusing to take action to clear up the fiasco on the issue of computer records being used , secondly for refusing to abolish the 20 per cent . |
| 4 | Request to consider action to clear up the patch at the top of Baberton Loan on the Lanark Road . |
| 5 | Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past … |
| 6 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | Pondering these matters , she went through to the front room to clear up the mess . |
| 8 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 9 | A few minutes after Amiss had gone Sunil cleared up the fragments of cheese and biscuits , deposited them neatly in the waste-paper basket , picked up a couple of books and some blank paper and descended to the next storey . |
| 10 | Let us begin with his efforts to clear up the confusion of questions 2 and 3 . |
| 11 | Try drinking lots of water instead : not eating at all for a day to clear out the system ( unless you are a diabetic or have some other dietary problem ) ; having a warm bath and a nap ; going for a long walk . |
| 12 | Then back to the kitchen to clear up the mess before Dad got back off the night shift . |
| 13 | A J-C-B digger was brought in , but it still took more than three hours to clear up the mess . |
| 14 | He should have the grace to admit that he was wrong and the grace to clear up the muddle that has existed in his ranks since his colleague the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden ( Mr. Galbraith ) recently announced that he was going to abolish fund holding . |
| 15 | The Duke of Westminster cleared out the attics and sheds at his stately home near Chester to create more space . |
| 16 | For some time a rumour had persisted that Horemheb , in his moves to clear up the corruption which had flourished like rampant weed during the years in which the city had fallen into neglect , had more than once attempted to close it ; but that the interests which protected it were still too powerful for him to dispense with . |
| 17 | We need an election and a Labour Government to clear up the mess . |
| 18 | Mothers cleared up the remnants of picnics . |
| 19 | When he saw Scott 's interest in the history of the valley he arranged for men to clear out the rubbish which had accumulated in Hermitage castle so that the visitors could inspect the dungeon . |
| 20 | Gazzer belted his forehead with the flat of his hand to clear out the nightmares . |
| 21 | Two weeks later , Coleman arrived in Gibraltar to clear out the funds standing to his credit at Barclays Bank . |
| 22 | Under pressure to clear up the confusion surrounding the direction of its Distributed Management Environment , Open Software Foundation DME technology manager Kathryn De Nitto says the group will make a statement within two weeks which should answer some of the questions on many lips . |
| 23 | Under pressure to clear up the confusion surrounding the direction of its Distributed Management Environment , Open Software Foundation DME technology manager Kathryn De Nitto says the group will make a statement within two weeks which should answer some of the questions on many lips . |
| 24 | In 1816 – 18 the second Marquess of Bute had the courtyard cleared of vegetation and rubble , and in 1871 – 79 the third Marquess cleared out the moat and engaged the architect William Burges to carry out restoration of the masonry . |
| 25 | Much later , I came back in to help Wu clear up the debris and to take the puppies out for a walk . |
| 26 | I helped my dad clear up the house — he 's very good at that . |
| 27 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 28 | When the Kenyan government called in a former Scotland Yard detective to clear up the murder of the foreign minister in 1990 , he fingered the former energy minister and confidant of the president . |
| 29 | But Lancashire manager David Hughes cleared up the situation later , saying : ‘ It was a complete accident . |
| 30 | But Lancashire manager David Hughes cleared up the situation later , saying : ‘ It was a complete accident . |