Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not , in any way , to take away from the fine documentation of every tournament played in 1991 , many of which were penned by British tennis journalists , who continue to be the most travelled in the world . |
| 2 | Controls on illegal trade in animals and plants will effectively disappear with the introduction of the European single market at the start of 1993 . |
| 3 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 4 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 5 | For a minute more , the boy went on gazing at the Harewoman . |
| 6 | That is a document which is effectively given for the protection of the Vendor . |
| 7 | He 'd gladly wade into the attack . |
| 8 | His exceptional talent was eventually recognized by the editor , E. V. Knox [ q.v. ] , who placed him under an exclusive contract , an almost unprecedented arrangement . |
| 9 | So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery . |
| 10 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 11 | I was giddy with the heat and a little flown with the wine . |
| 12 | The larger falcons are among the birds of prey most favoured for the sport of falconry . |
| 13 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 14 | There could be no doubt that the Burgundian was the leading ruler in Gaul between 511 and 516 , and he may well have been the barbarian king most favoured by the court of Constantinople . |
| 15 | MP for 20 years , when he successfully fought against the closure of Shildon wagon works . |
| 16 | The distal humerus and proximal tibia and femur are preferentially preserved in the predator assemblages where the greatest breakage overall occurs , while the species that do little damage to the bone cluster near the origin . |
| 17 | where you turn right to go into the nursery |
| 18 | Put all ingredients into a saucepan and slowly bring to the boil . |
| 19 | Meanwhile put vermouth , glace de viande and mustard in a small saucepan , slowly bring to the boil , add cream , boil again , take off heat . |
| 20 | Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour . |
| 21 | When present , the impurities cause concrete made from mining spoil , ‘ mundic , ’ to crumble in damp conditions as trace elements slowly combine with the cement to reduce the lattice structure to a mush . |
| 22 | Bearing in mind that it will be mostly hidden by the curtain that will fall around it , and that it may also have to support a wire umbrella frame , a 3 inch ( 7.5cm ) diameter or square stake is not too big . |
| 23 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 24 | He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation . |
| 25 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 26 | This duly arrived and the five hour Test Programme has just been successfully completed at the farm strip at Weston Underwood where Midge is presently ‘ stationed ’ She has company too — her stable mate is a Tiger Moth : G-AMHF . |
| 27 | Spencer Stuart 's success rate — proportion of assignments successfully completed to the client 's satisfaction within the specified time — has been independently estimated at 80% , much higher than many rival firms . |
| 28 | But Pauline Woolgrove , chief sterling trader , looked up from the dealing tickets for the several hundred million pound deals her desk had successfully completed during the night . |
| 29 | A Japanese plan to invest TT$37,000,000 in a bagasse processing plant was successfully completed after the coup , and cruise ships once again began arriving after order had been restored . |
| 30 | If pensioners , with potentially the most to lose in the rationing process , do not participate in discussions about rationing who should ? |