Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles . |
| 2 | Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning . |
| 3 | It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III . |
| 4 | If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box . |
| 5 | she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please . |
| 6 | Perhaps as a final word , I might be per better to echo the chief planning inspector Stephen who at this year 's T C P summer school , said , Neither statute or policy rule out the practical application of common sense in unusual or exceptional circumstances . |
| 7 | All you 've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one . |
| 8 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 9 | I could tilt your opinion back the other way with other evidence : about the feminization of poverty , about women 's loss of land , the ravages of the debt crisis — of any crisis — on the most vulnerable : on the women and their children . |
| 10 | Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately . |
| 11 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 12 | and he meet me at Presto and we 'll get your stuff and we 'll get our stuff out the same time erm |
| 13 | But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy . |
| 14 | Course eventually the , I mean , there was er there was Sergeant who was a butcher out the High Street there was Alf was a barber out of the High Street there was er Frank , Frank he was another butcher out of the High Street there was er miners er teachers , I mean there was quite a mixture of occupations in , in the , in the Home Guard . |
| 15 | Money out the same time . |
| 16 | There was also anger over the perceived dearth of true student representatives on the NSF , and over its control of the media . |
| 17 | To flesh out the red sandstone skeleton — to recreate within the cusped ribs of the cadaver the durbars of Shah Jehan — I again opened Dr Jaffery 's copy of Bernier . |
| 18 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 19 | And why is Ellie dragging her suitcase out the front door ? |
| 20 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |
| 21 | More specifically , they were to support the Conservative party as being the most likely to tum back the revolutionary tide . |
| 22 | My hon. Friends have made the good point that the Labour party is posing as the party of carbon dioxide reductions while at the same time it wants to force electricity generators to burn more coal , phase out the nuclear industry and , in its phrase , to ’ deter ’ the generators from using gas for power generation . |
| 23 | ICI strongly supports the Montreal Protocol , an international agreement to phase out the dispersive use of ozone-depleting chemicals . |
| 24 | Now the European Community is hoping to phase out the green pound by 1992 , along with the M C A's . |
| 25 | All my notions — notions of good or evil , of pleasant and unpleasant , of funny and serious , of ugly and beautiful are essentially middle class notions ; my taste in books and food and clothes , my sense of honour , my table manners , my turns of speech , my accent , even the characteristic movements of my body , are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche half way up the social hierarchy … to get outside the class racket I have got to suppress not merely my private snobbishness , but most of my other tastes and prejudices as well . |
| 26 | Fix around the rocket with royal icing : one at the base , one half way up the main part of the body , and one at the very top . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're sure there 's no way out the other end ? ’ |
| 28 | , he 's probably widdleing nothing , poor that was n't worth sitting down for , no to think that once I 've gone on , which I did on Friday , I 'm now on my way out the other end |
| 29 | A strange wild land out the other side of mockery , even of irresponsibility , indeed beyond all attitude and judgment . |
| 30 | The symptoms of over-contrast are not always easy to spot on the monochrome viewfinder picture , so it pays to be specially vigilant if the light is very bright . |