Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme is not out of the woods yet ; and rather than break the law Maxen last week filled in the local VATman 's registration form . |
| 2 | They spend seven to ten days in a particular area , seeing bands , checking out the local press and radio stations , getting contacts for future reference . |
| 3 | All that means is that the original form was present in the rest of the Rift Valley during this period , never went extinct , and has now come into the lake again and has either made extinct , or in some other way swamped out the local form . |
| 4 | A short look at one of these initiatives , that developed by Sheffield City Council , will help to tease out the local roots and separate the influence of local politics and local processes from those operating on a wider scale . |
| 5 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 6 | ( TIM ) Hello there … they all get a look in tonight … as we round up the local sport … on the start line ready to go first is the football parade |
| 7 | The company says that it intends to support the FDDI , Fibre Channel Standard and Parallel Channel Attachment standards but this will be for connecting the SP1 to file servers and hosts rather than speeding up the local network within the chassis . |
| 8 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 9 | Nicola hung up the local councillor 's ‘ phone and ran a hand through her hair . |
| 10 | And I think we it was poin pointed out that we 've got enough to do er sorting out the local government situation in Northumberland and I do n't disturb the other other industries as it were . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the noisy , more drunken and flagrantly homosexual Guy Burgess arrived to join the Washington embassy with a record of indiscretions which included loudly pointing out the local head of intelligence in a Gibraltar restaurant . |
| 12 | From this , I learned more about leys and immediately got out the local map to try and find one for myself . |
| 13 | Have you checked out the local sports facilities ? |
| 14 | If a villager migrates to Bombay and makes a living as a hawker , he probably has to bribe a cop to stay in business and pay off the local mafia don . |
| 15 | Occasional regattas liven up the local sailing . |
| 16 | He does n't run away , or hang out crosses or wreaths of parsley , or ring up the local press , he merely mentions it to his friends in passing , and gets on with his work . |
| 17 | There 's two ways of doing that , dial them on nine nine nine or ring up the local police control , which for this area is at Newark . |
| 18 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
| 19 | De Niro , in his funniest performance since Rupert King Of Comedy Pupkin plays a small-time New York lawyer keen to be someone , to make his mark by taking on the local crime boss/boxing promoter as well as tangling with the local barman 's wife played by Cape Fear co star Jessica Lange . |
| 20 | Liberal Democrats aim to cut pollution and clean up the local environment . |
| 21 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 22 | A quick trip to stock the fridge , the larder and the wine rack and everything is set for a fantastic holiday , with the freedom to come and go when you choose , eat the very best available in the shops , try out the local wines and generally ‘ go native ! ’ |
| 23 | The reasons are all too obvious : children in the camps , when asked to draw a picture about their lives at home , almost invariably produce scenes including helicopters bombing their farms or bodies dripping with blood flowing down the local stream . |
| 24 | That 's a point not always appreciated by those who think solos belong down the local community centre . |
| 25 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 26 | The containment of public spending has won out over local choice ; reducing the state in this area has meant central government rolling back the local state . |
| 27 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 28 | There are clinics attached to all the university and large municipal hospitals , but the government has shut down the local clinics because they deny that there is any problem . |
| 29 | The Indonesian government is keen to push up the local content of cars . |
| 30 | Phil disappeared for twenty-four hours and had me ringing up the local police station . |