Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has three heated public glasshouses and a small propagation unit which concentrates mainly but not exclusively on bringing on plants for amenity planting . |
| 2 | As UPSs go , the AccuCard is a modest example — there 's not enough battery for you to carry on computing without mains power . |
| 3 | The Bill would make it illegal to carry on business with tax havens . |
| 4 | Nothing arising out of UK membership of the EC , however , requires that the prohibition against the formation of partnerships with foreign lawyers to carry on business within England and Wales be relaxed . |
| 5 | The campaign reaches its climactic phase with astrologers warning both Mr Kinnock and Mr Major of trouble on Tuesday and Wednesday , with a lot hanging on Mercury on Thursday . |
| 6 | With just a few basic materials , I now have paintings hanging on walls in relatives homes . |
| 7 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 8 | Now come on sit down Dawn for Christ sake . |
| 9 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 10 | But their aim was as errant as his own , and the hail of bullets ricocheted off the top half of the door to whine viciously into the ceiling of the room , bringing down chunks of plaster in a choking dust cloud . |
| 11 | Committees for negotiations on teachers ' pay were set up by this Act , which also laid down procedures for arbitration where agreement could not be reached . |
| 12 | Modern deposits are not , it seems , laid down layer upon layer over a wide area . |
| 13 | Mary Bunn , hitting the keys harder and harder for Jesus , lifted herself off the stool and brought her bum down with a crash as she laid down chord after chord . |
| 14 | The declaration also laid down guidelines on peace and disarmament issues , development , the environmental challenge , the realization of full political and economic democracy , culture and society , and the role of women and men in society . |
| 15 | The silence continued long , while Harry picked up and laid down tool after tool , smoothed a finger-nail along the chisels , hefted the mallets , turning and twisting like a caged animal with the fury of his longing and the rigidity of his pride . |
| 16 | The Government are committed , when possible , to continue to drive down burdens on industry and rates of tax . |
| 17 | Purely on the strength of a chance remark by my retailer , who thought the symptoms could have been caused by metal toxicity , the tank was stripped down piece by piece . |
| 18 | Still sucking in lungfuls of air and wincing at the detonating roar of Duvall 's automatic pistol , Cardiff began to haul himself to his feet again by one arm , his gun hand hanging limp . |
| 19 | The scheme will use up LWT 's £50m of cash and bring in £72.5m of borrowings . |
| 20 | There are prototyping packages available which will set up screen layouts and bring in blocks of code for validating and presenting data . |
| 21 | I like to keep the background dark , and just bring in elements of sky and buildings and use the Norman to highlight the model . ’ |
| 22 | It is also the centre of a men-only pilgrimage in February , when local farmers bring in handfuls of hair cut from the tails of their animals and burn them before the sanctuary as an offering to St Blaise , as the patron saint of stock-breeders . |
| 23 | They replaced hundreds of divots , flattened hundreds of bumps , filled in scores of ruts , and pounded the turf until their backs ached and their hands burned . |
| 24 | He was an enigma , a challenge , a man-shaped outline of a jigsaw puzzle , to be filled in piece by piece until a complete portrait could be seen . |
| 25 | We have never been more varied than now , thanks to the BBDO merger [ bringing in brands like Pepsi-Cola and Gillette ] . ’ |
| 26 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 27 | Mr Lawes was praised for bringing in experts from Suffolk County Council 's archaeological department , who were astonished to find thousands of coins , sets of spoons , pepper pots and other valuables from the fifth century . |
| 28 | It is not that students will get turned off by being given unconnected dollops of philosophy and sociology , and it is not that bringing in specialists in philosophy and sociology will lead to an incoherent curriculum , although both are true . |
| 29 | He took a venturesome approach to the standard operas , bringing in directors like Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , and initiated a vigorous policy of commissioning new works . |
| 30 | Disney has a good record on bringing in projects on time , and there is a great deal of faith in the Eurodisney management . |