Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun] [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 As they tottered through the trees this Wednesday morning , she felt herself shaking from somewhere deep inside .
3 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 .
4 The first and smallest , the 600-strong Resettlement Agency , got off the ground last June .
5 HEARD about the Skoda that 's made of concrete and runs on uranium ?
6 Overall 1586 ( 66% ) were traced through the NHS central registry at Southport , and 693 had died between 1 January 1951 and 31 December 1990 .
7 The new edict is that we will have to wait for the year 2000 to land anywhere in space other than on the Moon .
8 We shall have to wait for the year 2017 to see what the culture-ideology of consumerism makes of the Bolshevik revolution !
9 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 .
10 They argued about the hound that evening , and as they argued Stapleton told her about Mrs Lyons .
11 the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and
12 the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and
13 the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and
14 the total contributions received for the journey concerned do not involve any profit and
15 Research institutions were asked to provide information about grants and contracts received during the period 1984/85 and 1989/90 .
16 distinguish between the Tunguska terminal explosion and energy released by ablation and deceleration during atmospheric entry , with the explosion representing just the last 1% of the bolide 's energy .
17 Well this this of course erm shuts off the freezer that thing .
18 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 .
19 I qualified for the B final .
20 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 .
21 He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal .
22 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 .
23 With reports still circulating that Sun Microsystems Inc will enter the business this year , Tatung Science & Technology Inc looks to be the first Sparc systems builder to go for the X terminal market .
24 I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation .
25 ‘ I explained it was a bit of a flap to go for the train this afternoon .
26 Backing off the Drive rotary turns off the LED next to it ; this indicates that the GX-7 is in clean mode .
27 Woolley checked off the names all the way down her spine .
28 Not realizing that they were pr preaching about the glory that been .
29 The rate of inflation can be calculated as the percentage annual increase in the Retail Price Index ( RPI ) .
30 Russia 's huge wartime losses in both life and material , culminating in those sustained during the Brusilov Offensive , were instrumental in bringing about the Russian Revolution in 1917 .
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