Example sentences of "[be] clean [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 2 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 3 | The next , more difficult step will be to clean up the mess . |
| 4 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 5 | The intention of the IB is clear ; it is to clean up the game at all levels particularly the shop window of the internationals . |
| 6 | The effect of removing noise is to clean up the image while the effect of removing local variability is to smooth the boundaries and emphasize the regional pattern present in the image . |
| 7 | it 's a very sad day for me with my last test flight , I started here in nineteen eighty three and my first job was to clean up the station after the air show |
| 8 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 9 | And he had this this erm casting of a plane you know he was cleaning up the edges gave the game away of course then . |
| 10 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 11 | I was cleaning out the room there the other day and he must be training , he must be weightlifting or something up in the bedroom but he 's a health health book , a big thick health book and there 's bodies , you know , the human body |