Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Robert 's son , also a banker and MP , who in the early 1830s set about dressing up the newly named Bridehead , making a lake beside it and a complete ‘ model village ’ at Little Bredy . |
| 2 | Then , riding on , he stiffly dismounted , avoiding the kicking of disabled horses , and stooped to pick up the now trampled and muddied Lion Rampant standard of Scotland . |
| 3 | ( Melastomataceae ) , while in the Malay Peninsula , raindrops run down the longitudinally dehisced capsules of Didymocarpus spp . |
| 4 | Its provisions included : enforcing a 20 percent reduction in Californian carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 , with a 40 percent reduction by 2010 ; protecting the earth 's ozone shield by speeding up the internationally agreed phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons and other damaging chemicals ; banning offshore drilling for oil in state waters ; saving the ancient redwood forests ; and requiring that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't understand , ’ she said , sinking back into her chair and gathering up the hastily discarded slice of bread . |
| 6 | Eric Tait ( left ) , the current director of European operations , takes on the newly created role of international executive director reporting to the chairman , while Frank Hughes serves his second interim term as chairman . |
| 7 | Another recent open winner , Harry Williams ' Derby hope Pond Pavarotti , whose victory at Brough Park last week helped Sunderland win second place in the inter-track competition , setting a new sectional record of 3.71 seconds , takes on the well known Yorkshire-based open racer Mandys Supreme , which is trained by the unattached Derek Tidswell . |
| 8 | Hazel and Blackberry turned and scuttled up the nearest run as though he had been a ferret . |
| 9 | If students do not take up the publicly provided loans that are available for them , they are neglecting an important element of the student support system . |
| 10 | When war broke out the best known suffragettes turned overnight from militant confrontation with the male establishment to enthusiastic participation in the crusade against Prussianism . |
| 11 | As a result , the Marines experienced no resistance as they jogged down the hurriedly lashed gangplanks , and spread out across the docks . |
| 12 | They even dug up graveyards , dragging out the freshly interred bodies . |
| 13 | It 's about a decade since the launch of the Karrimor K-SB3 , which brought about the so called lightweight boot revolution , and the last ten years have been the ideas evolve in a very effective manner . |
| 14 | The most fundamental reason was evidently that Hitler was proving incapable of bringing about the fervently desired end to the war , either victoriously or even through a creditable compromise peace . |
| 15 | Spying out the unevenly crossed legs , he steered his tiny shoe towards Murphy 's table . |
| 16 | Standard machines measure 600 mm ( 23⅝in ) deep by 595 mm ( 23⅜in ) wide , to fit between units and can be stacked one above the other , but , unless you have a separate utility room , that does not leave much space nearby for storing laundry supplies and accessories or setting down the just cleaned laundry . |
| 17 | Despite this , he promised that his government would neither challenge press freedom nor take over the privately owned Times of Zambia . |
| 18 | He turned his head away and picked up the newly arrived cognac . |