Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 2 | After bluntly pointing out the shortcomings of the existing system , the Royal Commission recommended a restructuring in which the criminal and civil work of the High Court would be separated . |
| 3 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 4 | I wish to notify other divers that while diving in Cornwall earlier this year , my buddy and I were charged £2 each for just walking down the slip for a shore dive . |
| 5 | The only way of effectively cutting out the risks of HIV transmission is by having safer sex with all your partners . |
| 6 | In the hope of perhaps pushing up the timber and the fruit and veg . |
| 7 | So it 's an impact outside of just closing down the car factory , and on the question of the effects on the community . |
| 8 | Instead of obsequiously handing over the dosh as any self-respecting minion temporarily permitted to breathe the upper air would have done , he started reciting terms and conditions . |
| 9 | SIR — What irony that the Iron Curtain of communo-socialism has collapsed throughout Eastern Europe , but we in Britain are on the verge of possibly turning back the clock 13 years to renew our disastrous affair with socialism . |
| 10 | Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out . |
| 11 | The reduction process consists of gradually filtering out the dependent constituents at successive levels until what is left is the most important grouping peak or the prolongational arrival which completes the argument of the entire text . |
| 12 | But it is a matter of realistically weighing up the pros and cons . |
| 13 | It was found that males and females would become sexually excited and were strongly motivated to mate even though they seemed incapable of correctly carrying out the act of copulation . |
| 14 | The farmers have the cost of regularly cleaning out the ditches and renewing the drain pipes which lie beneath the fields . |
| 15 | At this time the idea of simply dividing up the group into product groups was also broadened . |
| 16 | The scope for misunderstanding and the possibility of simply giving up the attempt increases hugely when the less tangible , less definable aims and outcomes of partnerships are considered . |
| 17 | That was certainly the prevalent mood when England , confident of again sorting out the beleaguered Irish , and at least making the French work for the Five Nations Cup , took the field at Lansdowne Road with a side apparently brimful with Lions for New Zealand . |
| 18 | Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance . |
| 19 | I mean , what I was going to say , from what I 've picked up from some of the comments from some of the district , district councils ' consultation it makes me wonder if they 're capable of actually taking on the role of social services in joint commissioning . |
| 20 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 21 | They begin by asking the question : in the period immediately following a defection , what would stop the firms getting together and , instead of actually carrying out the punishment , agreeing to reinstitute the collusive agreement ? |
| 22 | as well , well I could do with really clearing out the goats . |
| 23 | It seems that Carroll 's obsession with time in this chapter is not completely dreamt up , or was his infatuation with continually waking up the dormouse . |
| 24 | ‘ The thanks of everyone in the company are due to them for really pulling out the stops when it was needed ’ . |
| 25 | In the two months prior to writing this chapter , my counselling has involved one thirteen-year-old babysitter for a coven who was drugged and sexually abused for two years before eventually plucking up the courage to tell her parents . |
| 26 | Leave to dry overnight before gently bending back the waxed paper and lifting off the piped outlines with a palette knife . |
| 27 | Light : Bright light from above to bring about the deep mauve or reddish colour . |
| 28 | A sudden glare from outside lit up the windows briefly . |
| 29 | There are numerous cloughs worth exploring in the Dark Peak , but some of the most impressive can be linked by a demanding outing starting from Greenfield on the west of Black Hill , taking in major cloughs on Bleaklow and Kinder before finally scrambling down the head of the Grindsbrook above Edale . |
| 30 | Partly because this is one void pressure flow study , and so we have evolved from here to take on the sort of technology that was pioneered in this country by David , using a simple ambulatory erm study , and we 've added to this erm er a hard wire connection from a flowmeter . |