Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got in I found the house was empty and the fire nearly out . |
| 2 | ‘ But we chose the highest quality file servers , because if one of those goes down you lose the whole network . ’ |
| 3 | Every time the Government bring in something to protect the rich , the burden is passed to the rest of us . |
| 4 | Tristram Beresford , for example , writes in We Plough the Fields that : The awkward and uncertain hours ( especially for livestock workers ) , the isolation and the lack of amenities are , it is true , drawbacks to recruitment which agriculture must overcome . |
| 5 | I walked up to him , me and Shelley , me and Shelley give it crossing the road to go to him , me and Shelley as we 're walking through he crossed the road before we got to him . |
| 6 | As soon as Louise had rung off she removed the cushion and opened the chest . |
| 7 | The last time I phoned up I said the bicycle that was hidden in the bushes . |
| 8 | Driving back she scanned the fields , the forestry , the ditches at the sides of the road , anything but Leon Kennedy . |
| 9 | By a purely reflex process , centred in the spinal cord itself , and with no conscious reference to the forebrain , the message is carried back which enables the penis to become erect . |
| 10 | The council 's Brian Whalen wants to find out what produces the fantastic display which dances across the arctic and subarctic skies . |
| 11 | Police are trying to find out what caused the car to go out of control , cross the road and overturn down the steep embankment at just after 1pm . |
| 12 | The spokesman said an investigation would begin today to find out what caused the fire . |
| 13 | Chris uses the ‘ Interpet Book of Fish Health ’ to find out what causes the complaint — and then looks the problem and suggested treatment up in ‘ Helping Yourself with Natural Remedies ’ by Terry Willard — which is actually aimed at humans . |
| 14 | You need to find out what sets the stage for an act of defiance — what happens before the disobedience , and what are the circumstances in which it occurs . |
| 15 | Dr David Hockin , working with Dr John Eaton and Dr Ken O'Hara at the University of Liverpool , is trying to find out what effects the carp have on the communities of animals and plants living in our waterways . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that any one method would suit all patients and therefore it is best to discuss with the patient alternative approaches to find out which seems the most likely to succeed . |
| 17 | We shall need to find out who used the room last yesterday evening and whether he noticed the smear on the basin . |
| 18 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 19 | ‘ I was rather chuffed — then I found out it meant the fat one , ’ reveals Sir Harry . |
| 20 | If suggested improvements are not carried out we have the right to suspend cover on the plant concerned until the Engineer Surveyor is satisfied with its condition . |
| 21 | After spending five days trying to work out what to tell the world about the changing of the match ball by the referee at lunch on Sunday , they finally issued a statement — which said nothing . |
| 22 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 23 | When that help was given ‘ the Spirit of the Lord caught up Philip ’ , just like Ezekiel long before him , and ‘ Philip was found at Azotus , and passing on he preached the gospel ’ ( Acts 8:26,39,40 ) . |
| 24 | It contains the sentence : ‘ Looking down you see the bloody head of a harpoon protruding from your stomach . |
| 25 | Looking down he saw the final fearful act of that day . |
| 26 | When the girls came down they found the room already warm , the fire lit , the kettle steaming . |
| 27 | Round off to the nearest full width , bearing in mind that although most headings are adjustable ( excluding pinch and cartridge tapes ) , by rounding down you risk the curtains looking skimped . |
| 28 | Some snakes play dead by inverting themselves and lying limply on the ground , but if they are turned over they spoil the effect by quickly inverting themselves again . |
| 29 | I take her to school , I come back , and my husband shoots off he minds the other two for me while I go to the school . |
| 30 | Then , when I was grown up I saw the film The Sinking of the Titanic and it brought back the terror . |