Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fine to medium paintbrushes are useful for moving flowers and leaves around , and for brushing hairs and fluff off the design once you have finished it . |
| 2 | Use of PLATO has the disadvantage that special PLATO terminals have to be used for the instruction ; this means that users can not be taught in their own congressional offices and carry out the training as and when required . |
| 3 | Maggie looked at him ironically and the dark eyes were turned fully on her , inspecting her face until she had the mad urge to shut her eyes and block out the intent gaze . |
| 4 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 5 | As a politician and a realist , Citrine recognised that his plans needed the support of his new colleagues , and consequently that he would have to make tactical concessions and choose carefully the issues on which to fight . |
| 6 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 7 | When , in 1124 , the Emperor Henry V planned an invasion , Louis summoned his nobles to Rheims to debate tactics and draw up the battle-lines . |
| 8 | ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total . |
| 9 | It 's nearly time to give up the tights and get out the sandals . |
| 10 | Cockroaches crawl inside machinery such as tape recorders and computers and gum up the works . |
| 11 | Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu . |
| 12 | If Simon had gone to the stables and let out the horses , it would be difficult to prove it . |
| 13 | Edward VIII , the rise of Hitler , and World War Three which will last three years and seven months and bring about the end of the world . |
| 14 | Today , five hundred million years after those jawless armour-laden creatures began to wag their tails and blunder over the muddy bottoms of the ancient seas , the fish have evolved into some 30,000 different species . |
| 15 | Cut the remaining sheet of pastry into diamond shapes and scatter over the top . |
| 16 | ‘ If you leave it with me for an hour , I 'll pencil in the vowels and divide up the words at the end of the sentences . ’ |
| 17 | Enter receipts , work out VAT , deduct from our own books and dole out the money . |
| 18 | The ‘ Economist ’ , in March ‘ 78 , doubted whether Thatcher could ‘ forge a new majority of the right ’ and reckoned that her ‘ crusade to balance the books and roll back the government ’ was not finding much popular resonance . |
| 19 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 21 | From the same console , log in to the other two servers and follow exactly the same procedures , except that you type login rbg-2/supervisor and login rbg/supervisor , using the other passwords supplied . |
| 22 | Grease a large baking dish , coat with the breadcrumbs and shake out the excess . |
| 23 | Note the selection headings for these areas and write down the most important features of the case that occur in each of these sections in a layout that will make the next step easy for you . |
| 24 | I wander through the newsagents and check out the chicks in the magazines . |
| 25 | Enough , he hoped , to form several companies and carry on the fight , using guerrilla tactics . |
| 26 | 4 Transfer the lamb and garlic to warmed plates and pour over the cooking juices . |
| 27 | " How long do you think it would take whoever killed him to go through his pockets and cut out the clothes labels ? " asked Sergeant Burgess . |
| 28 | There are many arthropods associated with human disease , ranging from the larvae of certain flies such as the ‘ Congo maggot ’ which are obligatory tissue parasites and eat away the flesh of an infested person , to the scorpion whose sting can cause serious illness and in some cases , particularly children , even death . |
| 29 | From there the aircraft will be loaded onto shallow-draft barges and travel up the Willamette River , through the locks at Oregon City to a discharge site near the Yamhill River . |
| 30 | On 13 June the Court of Appeal decided that the union was not accountable for its shop stewards and set aside the fines . |