Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'm just being traditional in my tastes ; it is probably important to watch the compilation in small doses and not sit through the whole three hours as I did . |
| 2 | Many other industrial projects never got off the ground due to energy shortages , and Ghana has been forced to import power from the Ivory Coast . |
| 3 | The first and smallest , the 600-strong Resettlement Agency , got off the ground last June . |
| 4 | The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon . |
| 5 | We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution ! |
| 6 | These strange survivals from pre-history the golomianka , were no doubt nosing around the wreck of Old Prince Khilkov 's locomotive which had plunged through the ice eighty years ago . |
| 7 | They argued about the hound that evening , and as they argued Stapleton told her about Mrs Lyons . |
| 8 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 9 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 10 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 11 | the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and |
| 12 | Research institutions were asked to provide information about grants and contracts received during the period 1984/85 and 1989/90 . |
| 13 | Well this this of course erm shuts off the freezer that thing . |
| 14 | Millions who applied for the minimum 100 shares in the great water sell-off are likely today to be told their applications are being met in full despite a huge oversubcription to the £5.24billion privatisation . |
| 15 | Normally that would mean they qualified for the world indoor event , but Johnson has the option of appealing to Athletics Canada for one of Canada 's two 60m berths . |
| 16 | round the ten every happens to everyone they work you know ten twelve is the obvious one to go for the go eight nine ten twelve fourteen and then once you do it you do n't realize you 've done it and you do n't stop . |
| 17 | ‘ I explained it was a bit of a flap to go for the train this afternoon . |
| 18 | Backing off the Drive rotary turns off the LED next to it ; this indicates that the GX-7 is in clean mode . |
| 19 | Not realizing that they were pr preaching about the glory that been . |
| 20 | The rate of inflation can be calculated as the percentage annual increase in the Retail Price Index ( RPI ) . |
| 21 | Future village speakers are still to be arranged for the meeting due to be held on February 25 . |
| 22 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 23 | Answer guide : As these houses had been started and completed during the period all these materials are included under the matching principle . |
| 24 | Answer guide : As these houses had been started and completed during the period all these wages are included under the matching principle . |
| 25 | Barclays de Zoete Wedd chief strategist Michael Hughes said : ‘ Even at this last hurdle the Tories have not broken through the magic 40 per cent barrier . |
| 26 | We have stayed within the requirements of our banking covenants for the past eight consecutive quarters . |
| 27 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 28 | If you wish you know but I mean during the week nine times |
| 29 | And if you 've ever been there and taken the trip on the little boat which takes you right in to the base of the falls themselves , you 'll have seen that there 's a hydro electric station which takes power from the water at night , when some of the force is diverted , and instead of the water going over the falls it goes through the hydro electric station . |
| 30 | ‘ I managed to carry through the hijacking 80 per cent . |