Example sentences of "[verb] open the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chattering excitedly the children tried to open the other part of the building but it was still padlocked securely , they could see a little through various cracks but there seemed to be nothing of interest in that part . |
| 2 | Michele moved to open the outer door , and asked levelly , ‘ Shall we go ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll need to open the new jar of coffee , ’ Fen told her . |
| 4 | The Organización Nacional de Ciegos ( Once ) has opened the largest museum in the world of art by and for the visually impaired . |
| 5 | Hurrying towards the square miles of deafening battering that had been provided to smash open the British Line for their benefit . |
| 6 | They went through the Shambles where the butchers , ankle-deep in blood and gore , slit open the swollen bellies of cows , pigs and sheep . |
| 7 | In fact the mode of behaviour required has little to do with performing other than keeping open the normal communication channels between people as players do in a game . |
| 8 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 9 | A bespectacled , smartly dressed man was struggling to open the front passenger door of his parked car , while clutching a large paper bag of purchases from the all-night drug store he had just left . |
| 10 | Iwerks Entertainment Inc , a Burbank , California company that includes Sun Microsystems Inc among its backers , says it plans to open movie park entertainment centres that will combine large-screen formats , simulation and virtual reality technologies to create a futuristic cinematic city : it plans to open the first Cinetropolis in August at the Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard , Connecticut , and has also signed an agreement with the Japanese trading firm Itochu Corp to launch a network of Cinetropolises throughout the Far East and Asia ; Cinetropolis will be a virtual city of cinemas featuring five separate sites : an Iwerks Video 360 circular theatre an Iwerks 870 giant screen theatre , an Iwerks Virtual Reality simulation theatre , and a live performance theatre , all built around a street scene featuring bars , restaurants , retail stores and promotional marketing space . |
| 11 | Sue Spiller , design director of Slix , feels this would blast open the creative possibilities : ‘ We could have swimsuits with long sleeves , polo-necks , even legs . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd opened the smashed engine compartment , and was pointing to where the battery was n't . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Father told me you 'd opened the new girls ’ school , so I simply had to come to meet the new schoolteacher . |
| 14 | Before she could stop him , he 'd opened the back door and ushered her through . |
| 15 | Pushing open the heavy door , she began to climb the stairs to the second floor , admiring the way in which the stained-glass windows on each hall-landing cast triangles of coloured light on to the worn stone steps . |
| 16 | Both men flipped open the thin leather wallets they carried . |
| 17 | Everything was a blank between their arrival and the moment in which she had thrust open the Little Vestry door . |
| 18 | His hard knuckles ripped open the soft flesh over Luke 's eye . |
| 19 | Push open the imposing wood door of the Brunello apartments and you enter a home from home of traditional Venetian style . |
| 20 | At the Model school burglars ransacked the music centre after forcing open the main door . |
| 21 | Pulling open the heavy door , she lifted the receiver and dialled the number of her office , then spoke quickly and earnestly with her boss . |
| 22 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 23 | The school caretaker , an eccentric Scotsman with a handlebar moustache , ill-advisedly took matters into his own hands by breaking open the offending bottle with a large brick . |
| 24 | They foregrounded the importance of women for national regeneration , thus forcing a connection between public and private and breaking open the separate spheres ideology . |
| 25 | ‘ By the way , I found this on piper 's Drive yesterday evening , ’ slamming open the back doors of the pickup . |
| 26 | Kicking open the living-room door , his mouth still firmly attached to hers , he sat in the armchair , her slim form cradled on his lap . |
| 27 | With his hands so painful , the effort of holding open the springy collar enough to slide it from round his neck made him sweat . |
| 28 | On hearing the report of the Judge Rapporteur and the views of the Advocate General , the Court of Justice decided to open the oral procedure without any preparatory inquiry . |
| 29 | Well if they do they 'll have to open the bloody gate . |
| 30 | Flinging open the front door , she yelled to his retreating back , ‘ I am not arrogant ! |