Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation .
2 I suggest you whitewash out the pigsties and the cowsheds .
3 Er I suggest you pick up the phone and you give us a call now on , alright ?
4 Fit electric air conditioning and , though we ca n't promise you control over the elements , we can promise you a more comfortable , efficient working environment .
5 ‘ In the meantime I suggest we cut down the cross-referencing .
6 I helped her keep up the house .
7 Yes , you 've got to have a certain degree of structure in it and that happens I think through the parish council in a number of the key areas , but you have got to retain a degree of flexibility , otherwise you will just stifle initiative , you 'll stifle growing issues that happen .
8 Thus as the need for basic sustenance is met we move up the ladder to the next step , which is the satisfaction of the need for safety .
9 She could n't think what had made her blurt out the goading words .
10 He 'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams .
11 That comforting ‘ usual ’ audience are the connoisseurs of all things cool who make up the heaving Dingwall 's audience on any Sunday afternoon .
12 Traditional electron microscopes , which emit beams of electrons and watch them bounce off the surface , can see much smaller details but their pictures usually give only a poor impression of the relief of the surface .
13 In order to overcome the difficulty of the ENP not being able to prescribe tetanus immunisation , a protocol was written and approved which set out the circumstances under which a named ENP could administer a dose prescribed by the consultant .
14 To prevent this happening chemical agents known as sequestrants are used which bind up the residues preventing them from dropping out of solution .
15 ‘ Listen , Dolly , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ would yer like a nice cup of 'ot tea and a slice of apple pie to 'elp yer get over the 'orrors ? ’
16 it 'll only be shorter , it wo n't keep you warm down the bottom , yeah and here on the neck it 's , alright you can tell me the colour of , but it , it is quite
17 Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes .
18 these wee pencil brushes that colouring in bring out different er sort of , you know , knots and you know they bring in the pencil
19 The union section of the college has 40 per cent of the votes and the leaders of five unions , controlling 24 per cent , have publicly declared or privately indicated they will back the Shadow Chancellor .
20 They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed .
21 At the front door , as she watched them go down the garden path , with their jolly waves and their toothpaste smiles , Viola shouted : ‘ And if you see that father of yours again , you can tell him it wo n't do .
22 At intervals along these are found acupuncture points which are stimulated by the insertion of needles , massage or warming with incense so as to balance the elements of yin and yang which make up the ch'i , an imbalance of which is thought to cause disharmony and disease .
23 Between As Cain and Sare you go over the Col Saint-Ignace , a very modest affair of some 500 feet .
24 At the risk of having you bellow down the phone to me that it 's none of my business , I think you made a big mistake .
25 Every time it rains you look out the window to see if it 's going to happen again .
26 Suppose we try out the following definition : a complex thing is something whose constituent parts are arranged in a way that is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone .
27 Now we pay we pick up the tab at the Grand Hotel for those three days in-house .
28 If you ask " What should we do now that there 's a reward been offered for our arrest ? " you should be prepared to accept the response : " Find whoever put up the poster and kill them . "
29 Everyone watched him stride up the aisle towards the door at the back of the auditorium .
30 Carrie watched him go up the steep main street .
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