Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog refused to budge , so , instructing the two older girls to hold tight to the younger , I heaved up the 196lb of stubborn fur and staggered to the railing I went down to extricate my struggling son and carried him upwards followed by shrieking pleas of , ‘ Daddy , do n't leave us ’ and ‘ I want a carry ’ , from the frantic tadpole in charge of two red-faced little girls who were now starting to show signs of stain and filling tear-ducts . |
| 2 | I remmed out the graphics . |
| 3 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 4 | ( a ) which sets out the data you assembled during your research in sufficient detail to allow your reader to understand the analysis that is to follow ; and ( b ) which refers your reader to more detailed research data in the appendices to your report . |
| 5 | The news sent shivers through financial markets which marked down the lira to five-month lows around 960 to the mark while bonds also lost ground . |
| 6 | Complaints to Strasbourg under the Convention can be used to force the Government to change administrative practices which shut out the media , and even to oblige it to legislate to give the media specific legal rights necessary to obtain access to information . |
| 7 | When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down . |
| 8 | You bring lots of people in at junior management and through a series of apprenticeships you cream off the people who get to the top . |
| 9 | ‘ If you add up the people who voted for him and those who voted against him and those who did n't vote , you have to decide if that is a vote of confidence in him or not . ’ |
| 10 | There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams . |
| 11 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 12 | Makers Aristoc , who wheeled out the £3.99 Bodytoners in London yesterday , reckon they 're top gear under figure-hugging clothes . |
| 13 | Can we work out the e.m.f. with the aid of the concepts of flux linkage or flux cutting ? |
| 14 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 15 | Well when we clean out the er thing with the big fishing net for the pond but it 's a small one when we clean out the fish tank . |
| 16 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 17 | We hand out the works a little more surreptitiously . |
| 18 | Whoever takes on the trout farm will have their work cut out . |
| 19 | Together they make up the species called Felis sylvestris . |
| 20 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 21 | Mark asked , as he handed over the fish and chips . |
| 22 | He pulled down the people on both sides of him . |
| 23 | He took over the £60,000-a-year plum job only three weeks ago . |
| 24 | He put down the pair of pliers he was holding and picked up a heavy adjustable spanner . |
| 25 | Scott the collie has his work cut out as he rounds up the sheep at Camp Farm . |
| 26 | He wrote up the names of all trainees on the white board , and at the end of the day , he wrote up the sales scores of each one . |
| 27 | He held out the dice and I put it in the shaker . |
| 28 | He picked up the dice , and showed me six sides . |
| 29 | The local authority must therefore prove ( 1 ) that notice in accordance with section 10(1) was served on the person having control of the house to execute works , ( 2 ) that he failed within the time specified to execute them , ( 3 ) that the local authority have themselves carried out the works specified in the notice and ( 4 ) that they have incurred expenses in so doing . |
| 30 | That 's what sorted out the sheep and the goats . |