Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | then going over this sea blue and I was , so beautiful , you know Catholic used to say , when you di died in paradise , always want to go up the somewhere else paradise and it 's in here and look what happened they ruin and ruin and ruin and so be |
| 2 | Long whips of hawthorn arched over and helped to shut out the barely lightening sky . |
| 3 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 4 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Christian Braun , founder and director of the Overholland Foundation , has decided to close down the privately run museum on Museumsquare in Amsterdam . |
| 7 | For anyone disposed to take on the often very satisfying task of making banners I can assure them that there are several very kind ‘ Barnabases ’ in the church whose comments and encouragements I have valued . |
| 8 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 9 | It is so-called because the bêche plate must be reused to cut up the even denser marc . |
| 10 | A number of them are patched with squares of the ubiquitous plywood which is also employed to board up the now empty , adjoining , caretaker 's house . |
| 11 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
| 12 | Peter Parker does his best for Ackerley , praises his work — minor , but with an odd verve — and tries to bring out the more endearing sides to his nature revealed in letters to friends . |
| 13 | Obstinately , she remained standing , looking at him and trying to shut down the traitorously receptive part of her that was assimilating the way his formal evening attire enhanced his devastating masculinity . |
| 14 | Certainly , if I were a script writer , and I had to think up the most inappropriate name for a girl dressed as a man , the above tendencies would lead me to choose a monosyllabic form , using a closed syllable , ending in a consonant as far away from a continuant as I can find — a plosive — and with a vowel as far away from /i/ as I can find , such as /a/ or /o/ . |
| 15 | Because of the harmony between foreground and distance , the photographers would perceive little need to blow up the barely perceptible shapes in the distance into ambiguous and grainy enlargements . |