Example sentences of "[noun] push [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hastily put to sea in deteriorating weather conditions , the freshening easterly wind pushing up a lumpy swell for which this area is notorious . |
| 2 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 3 | Meredith pushed out the cold bottle and lay listening . |
| 4 | At sea the ship can appear enormous , and even minor landing craft travelling at a brisk trot were a hazard to canoes , for the minor LC 's blunt bow pushed out a small wall of water . |
| 5 | He makes the point that the arrival of these southerners ( and westerners ) has enabled the University of Ulster to push up the minimum entry grades for some courses . |
| 6 | As spring came , with the supreme optimism of Nature , the shattered trees pushed out a new leaf here and there , but soon these too dropped sick and wilting in the poisonous atmosphere . |
| 7 | The return pipe of the power filter can be inserted down the uplift pipe of the undergravel filter where the water flow pushes up the heavy mulm to the surface of the gravel , from where it is hoovered away . |
| 8 | Silence descended for a spell , then Morton pushed over a gilt-edged square of card . |
| 9 | Now let's keep the force the same , say we 've got a Mini engine providing us , just running it steady at three thousand R P M. Pushing out the same amount of force , keep the force the same , this time we put a smaller mass , we 've got a Mini engine and you 've put it on your pushbike . |
| 10 | He also stresses that the new female values encouraged marriage for love rather than for prudential considerations , and maintains that women 's increasing search for sexual fulfilment pushed up the general fertility rate of lower-class marriages in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | In other respects careful management and a firm hand pushed up the royal income . |