Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sales conference , held just before the all-important Christmas run-up began , was meant to psych up the sales force for the new line . |
| 2 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 3 | England did not seem to believe that Spanish-based Tab Ramos could juggle it back from the bye-line and when he did , no-one had picked up the 6ft 1ins Kaiserlauten defender as he powered his header past Chris Woods . |
| 4 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 5 | The company has recently carried out the £2m contract to provide brickwork and blockwork for Conder on its Teesside Retail Park scheme . |
| 6 | Manning , 31 , tried out the 150mph car on September 21 , a month before its launch . |
| 7 | It had taken her precious time to track down the people Lori had stayed with , only to discover , when she arrived , that Lori had flown off to Caracas . |
| 8 | So ideally what the industry needs is an alternative that erm , is really , that kills off the sheep scab bug , and at the same time er , is er , affords protection against other erm , things like er , fly er strike . |
| 9 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 10 | The Commission aims to open up the £60billion telecoms industry as part of the 1992 single European market . |
| 11 | The move to set up the staff commission comes after local authorities asked that a body be set up to protect the interests of employees . |
| 12 | On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods . |
| 13 | In the Chouf now , the Druze holy colours hang over the militia checkpoints . |
| 14 | John Mackay , Royal Mail 's genial director and general manager , handed over the £1,000 cheque to Brian Rookley , the SSRU president , at the weekend . |
| 15 | A sample of 50 schools was drawn up the Statistics Division of SOED ( one in eight of all Scottish secondaries ) giving broad representation of Scottish secondaries in general , in terms of size , geographic location , denominational status and percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals . |
| 16 | The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges . |
| 17 | Glenister , 30 , hitched up the 19ft yacht and towed it to his home in Chawleigh , Devon , four miles away , Exeter magistrates were told . |
| 18 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 19 | Whoever takes on the trout farm will have their work cut out . |
| 20 | In June residents of Sacramento , California , voted to shut down the $342,000,000 Rancho Seco nuclear plant , and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which had agreed to abide by the vote , immediately began to implement its closure . |
| 21 | He had deserved all he got — was that what ministers and teachers were paid for ? to draw up the militia lists and condemn the young men to the barracks and the camps , to swamp fever in the Indies and their legs and arms blown off ? |
| 22 | The US is buying up the salmon fishing rights of Greenland 's fishing industry in an attempt to restore the salmon population of its own rivers . |
| 23 | To tidy up the l.e.d. holes , use panel bushes which fit into the 6mm ( ¼″ ) holes already drilled and the l.e.d.s themselves then snap into these . |
| 24 | The pilots were revving up the aircraft engines ; there would be no stand-down . |
| 25 | When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down . |
| 26 | John Hodgson and friends Gary and Robert Sowerby abseiled down the 70ft Devil 's Hole near Great Ayton , North Yorkshire , on Sunday . |
| 27 | Pour over the herring rolls . |
| 28 | The 16-year-old was pulled off the 50cc Yamaha , pushed to the ground and kicked before two men and a women escaped on her bike . |
| 29 | Find out the sales figures for a particular item over a period of five years . |
| 30 | Sort out the travellers.Landowners demand police get tough . |