Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 2 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 3 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 4 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 5 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 6 | When they do use bricks here , they paint them brick red so you will know they are bricks , then they stick them on to the front outside walls as an ornamental display . |
| 7 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 8 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 9 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 10 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 11 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 12 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 13 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 14 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 15 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 16 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 17 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 18 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 19 | You did n't turn them on until the second part . |
| 20 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 21 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 22 | Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles : |
| 23 | yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group |
| 24 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 25 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 26 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
| 27 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 28 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 29 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 30 | ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well . |