Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's concern throughout the late 1940s was to stimulate building to make up the deficiencies in housing stock arising from bomb damage and the wartime standstill in house building . |
| 2 | While crackling flames eat up the beams |
| 3 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 4 | Then Judge Shindler called back the 11 other jurors and said he had no choice but to discharge them too and order a retrial . |
| 5 | From having the best midfield in the league it now seems to have gone distinctly limp — what price now Batty ( nice to see Battyburn keeping up the chase ) . |
| 6 | The controversy led AID to turn down the project . |
| 7 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 2 Select a patient who has difficulty breathing in the post-operative period . |
| 10 | The trust contemplates many benefits for patients , including continuing the systematic assessments and the reductions in institutional accommodation , and has plans to break up the large wards and to increase the staff-patient ratio . |
| 11 | She hurried back down the stairs to find Will mopping up the remains of his soup from the stone-flagged kitchen floor . |
| 12 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 13 | The old masters merely dammed streams and created lakes to break up the landscape or else reflect its beauty . |
| 14 | Trading vessels went down the canal every week to Grimsby and Hull and every month to London . |
| 15 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 16 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 17 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 18 | Christopher Hill has emphasised how Milton explicitly has Samson bring down the temple on ‘ Lords , ladies , captains , counsellors , or priests , /Their choice nobility and flower ’ ( 11.1653–4 ) allowing the vulgar [ i.e. the common people ] ‘ who stood without ’ to escape . |
| 19 | SEVERAL old and tried tunes opened up the year . |
| 20 | In 1965 Lloyd went back to being Student 's editor , and Jim Haynes headed south to set up the London Traverse Company at the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre in Holborn . |
| 21 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 22 | EVENTS / Conkering heroes take on the world |
| 23 | Place names change over the years , in some cases quite substantially , and Watkins warned against too easy an acceptance of a name at face value . |
| 24 | He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food . |
| 25 | Jill thought a moment then announced her decision , which was that she agreed to keep the secret provided Jennifer riddled out the cinders every morning from then on , instead of taking it in turns . |
| 26 | This is the same set of attitudes which causes people to clear out the unwanted gear out of their lofts to send to Ethiopia rather than enabling the Ethiopians to get the best training possible as irrigation engineers , doctors and agricultural scientists and economists . |
| 27 | Workers really did n't need Marx to figure out the consequences of this inequality in the distribution of power . |
| 28 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 29 | Then I went below and got a handkerchief and helped Hands tie up the great bleeding wound in his leg . |
| 30 | It is also possible to obtain cover to pay off the mortgage on the diagnosis of certain critical illnesses . |