Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After travelling back south by barge , the pair have driven down to Tasmania to carry on the circumnavigation where they left off . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 3 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 4 | The Captain filled in the space where Maxwell might have thought he had to apologize , and then asked him quickly : ‘ What did you do in the north of Italy in January ? |
| 5 | Then she remembered her night-gown was torn down the front where Faith Caskie had ripped it . |
| 6 | It may help you to write down the reasons why you want the test . |
| 7 | He would track down the boardroom where the orders were issued , and he would declare all-out war on whichever Japcorp or state authority had been behind the singe . |
| 8 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 9 | Er , now thinking of the experience of recording your conversations using the personal stereo and filling in the booklet how do you find this in general ? |
| 10 | After a while , though , when I 'd turned down the side-street where the house was I hoped ) , there were no more sounds to frighten me , and as a result of course I grew much more afraid of the stuffed , dripping silence . |
| 11 | Stop over the point where it goes down ? ’ |
| 12 | He 'd never once forgotten to lock up the hens when she 'd asked him . |
| 13 | prop up the line where our sheets are flagging . |
| 14 | When the paper was removed it lifted up the wax-ground where the pencil had been and exposed the metal . |
| 15 | It was Mellor , as junior Home Office Minister , who was left by Mrs Thatcher to pick up the pieces when the last government went badly over the top in its determination to reshape television by deregulation , irrespective of quality . |
| 16 | A particular type of credit and money-management education is that needed for the people who unfortunately have to pick up the pieces when consumers get into difficulties over credit use : consumer and community advisers , citizens ' advice bureaux staff , social workers , even probation officers . |
| 17 | GPs also complain , quite rightly , that hospital staff making , for example , discharge plans for a group of patients to a new home or hostel sometimes neglect to discuss the plans with the primary care team — normally the local general practice together with its team of doctors , nurses and other specialists — yet expect the GPs to pick up the pieces when something goes wrong . |
| 18 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 19 | and picking out the winners when the going gets rough at Ascot . |
| 20 | I will be writing to you again , once Anglo-Welsh have sent out their formal offer document , to set out the reasons why you should reject the offer . |
| 21 | So ten years later and the man comes back , the ma they cos they 've never come and checked on them they just sling the food through a but open up the cell where the man had Samantha Fox and millions of little kids come running out , all different ages and sizes , millions of them . |
| 22 | The doctor will work out the date when your baby is due . |
| 23 | When in arrears he learns ‘ to sniff out the places where you can catch violators when you 're running behind ’ ( Skolnick , 1966:55 ) |
| 24 | He is one of Thatcher Tubes ' longest-serving employees , having worked originally for the electrical contracts who wired up the machines when the plant started in 1984 . |
| 25 | Julia deliberately turned to him to explain the significance of Comfort 's private jokes and fill in the background whenever she mentioned the name of one of their friends whom David could not know . |
| 26 | It is important however that the manager should set down the areas where responsibility for decisions is vested in the surveyor in order that any uncertainty regarding delegated authority is kept to an absolute minimum . |
| 27 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 28 | That is subordinate to the business of routing out the cancer where it occurs . |
| 29 | I could make out the spot where my dad had stood that night . |
| 30 | When news of the accident got out the hospital where sixteen of the children were being treated was flooded with calls from anxious parents . |