Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 2 | Rostov met the accusing eyes squarely , then he shrugged . |
| 3 | ( I met the great sculptor once , you know , when I was hiding from the Doge of Venice 's assassins . |
| 4 | Alexei met the piercing glance squarely . |
| 5 | ‘ You must not deliberately offend so as to invite such punishment , ’ whispered the puissant amputee hoarsely . |
| 6 | It is fair to say that this race lacked the energetic input normally associated with Mansell , banned from yesterday 's Grand Prix after breaking the regulations at Estoril last Sunday . |
| 7 | A sharp wind whipped the fallen snow up into the air and blew it into every hole and corner . |
| 8 | Then Armagh manager Jim McCorry whipped the 22-year-old student out from the wings , placed him on centre stage — and watched as he took the house down . |
| 9 | The murders by the drug cartels of two federal judges , Héctor Jiménez Rodriguez and Mariela Espinoza Arango , in Medellín on Oct. 17 and Nov. 1 , 1989 , respectively , and that of court summoner Guillermo Mena Lozano on Nov. 1 in Cali provoked a 13-day strike beginning on Nov. 2 of judges and court workers which paralysed the judicial system nationwide ( 350 judicial employees and 50 judges were estimated to have been killed in drug-related violence since 1980 ) . |
| 10 | But it remains to ask again why the state 's policy of pursuing the common interest always fosters the political interest of the ruling class . |
| 11 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 12 | It may have been dropped during the run-in to opening in 1692 , to spare the first-night audience too long a wait for the music they had paid to hear in this long-expected opera ; for it can perfectly well be done without . |
| 13 | He slipped out of the pony harness , withdrew the slim plastic tube and emptied the sticky gerbils back into their cage . |
| 14 | She emptied the whole toybox out . |
| 15 | Turn left onto the road and after a short distance bear left onto a stony track which rejoins the main road further along . |
| 16 | The community is signposted " Durrenroth " at a side road that goes off to the right ( and later rejoins the main road further on ) . |
| 17 | If you choose to abandon formality ( 'Why do n't we discuss this over a drink ? ' ) then you are playing high status in that you 're taking this decision , and allowing the other person perhaps to rise above their station . |
| 18 | By night the lava lake presents an unearthly sight , with great slabs of dark , solidified crust shifting about slowly on the surface , allowing the bright lava underneath to gleam through along the cracks between slabs . |
| 19 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |
| 20 | When the task is completed the female approaches again for the process to be repeated . |
| 21 | She endured the renewed pain stoically until the water ran clear , then turned off the taps and clambered from the bath , feeling very shaky , but wonderfully , blissfully clean . |
| 22 | Richard Baxter had already made his position clear when he stopped preaching the previous May soon after the Act had received royal assent . |
| 23 | He hates the old bill anyway . |
| 24 | We do not appear to have received the signed documents back from you yet . |
| 25 | Those clients who received regular reviews fared better than those who were left to bear the responsibility of contacting the relevant services when the situation , in their opinion , so required . |
| 26 | Table 5.1 records the significant events chronologically . |
| 27 | The only real problem with this way of bending is that if one of the ‘ laminations ’ does break you lose the whole piece rather than just the one lamination ! |
| 28 | Furious , Dr Dunstaple now seemed on the point of turning on the Padre and mowing the wiry cleric down with his fists , but by this time Louise and Mrs Dunstaple had hastened to his side and now they dragged him away , hushing him desperately . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that Anjou was the hereditary enemy of the Normans , the man was a cold-blooded brute who had n't hesitated to let his army of barbarians ravage the Norman countryside even while his father-in-law was still alive . |
| 30 | The collapse of the MacDonald government in August 1931 weakened and divided the Labour Party as effectively as the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions . |