Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More importantly , both groups wittily peel back the scabs of modern pop until they form into mottled bruises . |
| 2 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 3 | The only gateway from the Walks was directly opposite the church , so that the Lassiters rarely walked up the village itself . |
| 4 | Opulent decors and images only point up the jadedness , and the tale of a deracinated interloper ( Beatrice Dalle ) caught up in family plotting at the chateau turns into a risible cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Homes And Gardens . |
| 5 | When a drover 's or farmer 's beasts went missing , they were liable to find their way into rogues ' hiding-places such as the deep cleft of the Devil 's Beef Tub near the source of the River Tweed above Moffat , where encircling hills seemed , according to Sir Walter Scott , to be ‘ laying their heads together to shut out the daylight from the dark hollow space between them ’ . |
| 6 | While the two aircraft commanders get their heads together to sort out the best approach to the problem we have been set , the two pilots sort out the flying side of life . |
| 7 | Zimbabwe 's traditional agricultural and mining sectors still make up the major portion of exports and are vulnerable to price changes . |
| 8 | His early performances always brought out the vulnerability behind the front , the uncertainty behind the violence , the sense of sliding out of control . |
| 9 | His eyes still dart around the room looking for a weapon . |
| 10 | make a note to check any " odd ones " in other lists later match up the separate lists one against the other to make sure that each list contains a different sound . |
| 11 | My ears frantically sought out the cause , |
| 12 | He stood up and bent his knees slightly to take out the stiffness . |
| 13 | Her mother Diana , who five months later set up the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to publicise the dangers of women working alone , fears the worst . |
| 14 | The import of data from molecular and genetic databases also holds out the promise of revitalising classical taxonomy using molecular systematics and DNA-probe analysis . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the current finding of a statistically significant greater degree of reticulin collapse in patients who died than in the survivors clearly points out the important prognostic connotation of the severity of histological damage in patients with acute liver failure . |
| 16 | The other girls had reached the top of the bank now , and they saw her long legs fairly leaping down the slope after the speeding pram . |
| 17 | The execution of a provo murder gang in Coagh a few months ago brought about the usual uproar from the republican politicians . |
| 18 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 19 | I hope that our Government will encourage other EC states within the United Nations fully to back up the United Nations and put pressure on Turkey to find an early solution . |
| 20 | The great steps forward taken over the last 30 years have not been undone . |
| 21 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 22 | The special tube shapes for the rocket are achieved by baking cake mixture in empty food cans just make up the required raw cake quantity as shown in the chart on page 12 . |
| 23 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 24 | The Intermediate and Interior areas together made up the Kandyan districts , the geographical area under the sway of the former Kandyan Kingdom . |
| 25 | Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees , and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue . |
| 26 | The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest . |
| 27 | Some parents just switch off the alarm after the initial wetting , fail to change the bed , and leave the child so that there is no real opportunity for the child to learn . |
| 28 | The linking of the elements thus takes on the only allowable form of " one-to-many " . |
| 29 | Lots of different descriptions always pick out the same me . |
| 30 | Scramblers probably make up the majority of Munro-baggers , since to do them all you ca n't avoid scrambling , and will also be obliged to dangle once on the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye . |