Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields . |
| 2 | Soviet efforts to minimize the impact of his resignation internationally included a Congress resolution passed overwhelmingly at the end of the debate affirming the continuity of foreign policy . |
| 3 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 4 | Near Bering Strait the small inflow of Pacific water circulates locally in the pycnocline layer . |
| 5 | The unit tries to keep the offenders out of court , an aim that sits uneasily with the government 's new philosophy that prison and punishment work . |
| 6 | But it sits uneasily with the often-heard principle that ‘ local services should respond to local needs ’ . |
| 7 | At first sight this degree of fluidity in the Japanese labour market sits uneasily with the presumption that employment is for life because this would make wages a quasi-fixed cost . |
| 8 | The chorographer ( though not Reyce ) points out : ‘ That p't of the countrye that is nere unto the sea is nothing so fruiffull neyther so comodious for cattell as the other but more fitte for sheepe and come , ’ and so contained many more 20s. men — upwards of 43 per cent in Blything hundred , and more than twice as many as in townships situated wholly on the clay . |
| 9 | One would think that an old person would have to be living in an isolated cottage , in the heart of the countryside , to be so out of touch with the world ; but sadly we know from the frequent reports in the newspapers that such tragic loneliness can exist right in the heart of our towns and cities , and that the old have sometimes remained undiscovered for weeks and months after they have died in their own homes . |
| 10 | ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’ |
| 11 | There 's always a demand for jokes and it goes right across the board , ’ says Neville . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's easy , simple and elegant and it goes right across the age range . ’ |
| 13 | There 's a gap in the wall , and it goes right onto the platform — there ai n't no fence or nothing stopping me getting out . |
| 14 | A woman of taste and energy , Mrs Baer goes right to the source — provincial villages in France — for her fine curtains , natural linens and variations on the theme of blue ( or beige or grey ) and white stripes so sought after by decorators . |
| 15 | Goes right to the spot . |
| 16 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
| 17 | Children 's playground , goes right into the playground . |
| 18 | It goes right into the subconscious of course ; no memorizing involved . ’ |
| 19 | Now there 's the machine is g there the laminated copper er these commutators and it 's on main shaft that goes right through the generator and the turbine . |
| 20 | Not only will this make the water unpleasant but it may cause leakages if the corrosion goes right through the cistern . |
| 21 | It was supposed to have gone into a cave that goes right underneath the house |
| 22 | No it goes right out the building . |
| 23 | This one goes right out the building , round and round and it drops down , phew then it goes up . |
| 24 | Bannen tried to take his son 's hand , but his fingers passed right through the simularity field . |
| 25 | It was not a historical accident that the sports in which blacks were overrepresented compared to their proportion in the general population were those demanding little in the way of equipment or facilities . |
| 26 | Scudamore interprets present-day embalming as ‘ a treatment consisting fundamentally of the injection of some suitable disinfecting preservative into the vascular system , augmented by the relieving of the blood from the superficial vein , and such cavity , cosmetic , and derma-surgery treatment necessary to achieve a pre-mortem appearance , aseptic condition and preservation ’ . |
| 27 | The type of frame you choose for your finished work is an entirely personal decision , based on your own likes and dislikes , but I would strongly suggest that you think about the type of frame you will be using right from the start of your work . |
| 28 | Other triterpenoids such as oleanolic acid ( 2 ) 4 ( Calendula ) , ursolic acid ( 3 ) 5 ( Psychotria adenophylla ) , taxaxerol ( 4 ) 5 ( Taraxacum officinale ) , lupeol acetate ( 5 ) 5 ( Spilanthes ocymifolia ) and sericic acid and it glycoside sericoside ( 6 ) 6 ( Terminalia sericea ) have antiulcer properties but these compounds have not been developed commercially in the West . |
| 29 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 30 | Michael Banks it always was who gazed grimly at the enemy submarine from the bridge , Michael Banks who ignored the smoke pouring from his Spitfire 's engine as he trained his sights on the alien Messerschmidt . |