Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the fireman attended to a brew , the driver sought out the R.S.F. in his lair , and enquired the loco number ‘ 4913 ’ came the reply . |
| 2 | Selecting the right personnel to carry out the PR function . |
| 3 | I remembered Mr Broadhurst-that-was mopping up the Sally Lunns but that was a mere warm-up exercise compared to this . |
| 4 | Twice I forked out for cable car rides up the Stock Mountain where there are more langlauf tracks and ample space to make your own . |
| 5 | The IRB professes to be the body administering world rugby , but the need for the existence of FIRA points out the IRB 's failure to take a truly world view of the game . |
| 6 | He 's just adjusting his outfit as he 's in the car driving up the Tadcaster road and he looks with horror . |
| 7 | We were leaving England and as the boat sailed down the Solent past the Needles everyone was mustered on deck to be informed that the King had died . |
| 8 | He had described as " a fraud " the recent attempts under KGB chairman Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov to clean up the KGB 's public image and stress its role in fighting genuine crime . |
| 9 | Temporarily withdrawing in an attempt to draw out the IRA , they returned to occupy the area for a further 36 hours ( Farrell , 1980:273 ) . |
| 10 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 11 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 12 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 13 | The next morning , alone in the small sitting-room , Molly took out the Piero della Francesca book , as a scholar might take a work from the shelves to check a reference . |
| 14 | When Paul Devereux took over The Ley Hunter in 1976 , it was widely assumed that some form of energy existed at ancient sites , but there had been virtually no research to back these ideas up . |
| 15 | Anguita had resigned as general co-ordinator of the IU on Nov. 27 , after opposing some PCE members and members of other parties within the alliance who had argued that parties making up the IU should dissolve to form one party . |
| 16 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 17 | This is Digital Equipment 's attempt to take on the Intel Pentium chip . |
| 18 | On the Sunday morning after the opening , Dustin spread out The New York Times on the sidewalk , and saw a half-page picture of himself illustrating a long article by Walter Kerr , the most esteemed American critic of the day , then only doing weekend pieces . |
| 19 | He heard a burst of gunfire and saw a car disappearing down the Glen Road . |
| 20 | NICK FALDO picked up the Ritz Club Golfer of the Year award and the Vardon Trophy , given to the European Tour 's leading money-winner , at the Tour 's annual dinner in London last night . |
| 21 | Her family and former schoolfriends in Crosby set up the Vicki Bayliss Neuroblastoma Research Fund in her memory and tomorrow her mother , Judy , will join the 850 runners who have applied to take part in the 11th Crosby 10 . |
| 22 | Thus re-established Gehlen returned to Germany on the winning side to head up the CIA 's new Cold War against Russia . |
| 23 | The technical training department set up the NEBOSH course , which is seen as a logical progression building from the broad base of safety representatives training . |
| 24 | Sir John Rimmer digs up the Presley hoard . |
| 25 | The ordeal is over : the Namibians show off the Sicily Trophy after beating Hong Kong 26–12 in the catania final . |
| 26 | LIFFE was aware of plans to set up the DTB , and moved quickly to pre-empt its business in German long interest rates . |
| 27 | The huge yacht sailed up the Derwent accompanied by hundreds of spectator craft to take the winner 's gun early yesterday evening . |
| 28 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |
| 29 | But the dictator needed British craftsmanship for the fine tools required to operate missiles , so the Iraqis checked out the Midlands engineering firm Matrix Churchill . |
| 30 | The Croats drove out the Serbs from Kupres this week and , according to eye-witnesses , wished them well with a few genocidal strokes . |