Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles .
2 Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning .
3 It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III .
4 If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box .
5 5 From a crouched stance , the student snakes out the lower arm in a tiger claw towards the groin area , to grab and rip .
6 she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please .
7 Perhaps as a final word , I might be per better to echo the chief planning inspector Stephen who at this year 's T C P summer school , said , Neither statute or policy rule out the practical application of common sense in unusual or exceptional circumstances .
8 The horse puts its head high in the air , muzzle uppermost , and curls back the upper lip and sniffs long and noisily through its squashed nostrils .
9 All you 've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one .
10 At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand .
11 All of us were checking new bands out the whole time .
12 I could tilt your opinion back the other way with other evidence : about the feminization of poverty , about women 's loss of land , the ravages of the debt crisis — of any crisis — on the most vulnerable : on the women and their children .
13 Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately .
14 It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side .
15 and he meet me at Presto and we 'll get your stuff and we 'll get our stuff out the same time erm
16 But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy .
17 Course eventually the , I mean , there was er there was Sergeant who was a butcher out the High Street there was Alf was a barber out of the High Street there was er Frank , Frank he was another butcher out of the High Street there was er miners er teachers , I mean there was quite a mixture of occupations in , in the , in the Home Guard .
18 He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son .
19 Money out the same time .
20 Psychoanalysis also describes the unconscious as a bisexual or polymorphously sexual force , and maps out the social production and containment of conscious and unconscious sexualities around sexual difference .
21 There was also anger over the perceived dearth of true student representatives on the NSF , and over its control of the media .
22 where 's he 's kidnapped her , it 's hundred mile from Barnsley so I think he belongs Barnsley out the bloody area .
23 all the bloody corpses out the bloody graveyard .
24 To flesh out the red sandstone skeleton — to recreate within the cusped ribs of the cadaver the durbars of Shah Jehan — I again opened Dr Jaffery 's copy of Bernier .
25 There is , too , some uncertainty as to how much support his present strategy receives from the Foreign Office ; apparently , not all of its advisers back the brash approach .
26 As she left the cabin she took one of the oilskin jackets out the hanging locker .
27 I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort .
28 And why is Ellie dragging her suitcase out the front door ?
29 Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft .
30 More specifically , they were to support the Conservative party as being the most likely to tum back the revolutionary tide .
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