Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] and [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many and such large anomalies pile up that the paradigm suddenly collapses , as , for instance , when Einstein put the exceptions to the Newtonian paradigm together and proposed the theory of relativity . |
| 2 | When the police tried to get them to accept a re-route through an entirely Catholic area , they abandoned the march altogether and confined the event to a rally which was held in the open air in a car park in Foyle Street . |
| 3 | A second push on the central button removes the setting altogether and allows the driver to return to foot control of the tractor . |
| 4 | Mr Yeltsin 's best hope was to persuade four of the largest republics — Russia , Belorussia , the Ukraine and Kazakhstan — to club together and outline the powers of the central and republican governments . |
| 5 | One further adopted measure thus was to offset the carriageway or create a chicane by using planting on one side only and switching the right-angle parking from one side to the other ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 6 | He had a reputation for being tough in the water and was alleged to be a champion of ‘ localism ’ — the attitude of resident surfers who guard their break jealously and resent the intrusion of outsiders . |
| 7 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 8 | Insert needle from right to left under both loops of stitch below and draw the thread through . |
| 9 | The sub-committee might then find it is helpful to note any immediately available information about good practice elsewhere and consider the questions which they propose to ask during their first consultation with the head teacher . |
| 10 | Then , before he has quite finished , and he 's associating the trailer with a good place to be , take the horse away and repeat the Meals on Wheels business again the next day . |
| 11 | To increase this tension further and aggravate the goods famine even more is impossible . |
| 12 | Some working-class groups are the same , able to have a knees-up in a pub , sing in a bus or appear on panel games on television in which they laugh loudly , show disappointment openly and accept the idea that luck is more important than knowledge . |
| 13 | The judge is there to hold the ring impartially and to direct the jury on the law . |
| 14 | This seems to be caused by a powerful muscular spasm in the vagina that locks the erect penis fast and bonds the amorous couple like Siamese twins . |
| 15 | She lowered her lashes and sighed deeply , prolonging the moment from a sense of fun ; and then she saw his face , glimpsed the uncertainty there and knew the time for games was over . |
| 16 | Ward slipped down into the driving seat again and slammed the roof shut . |
| 17 | So I thought now what do I say , do I drop myself in it or do I say well that was n't , that was Roy , I said well you know I said I must admit I said I I 'm sorry so erm then Roy said well that battery he said was me he said I , I borrowed Geoff 's car again and look the battery fell over in it so I 'm gon na help him er then I sa , a piece of that bloody great went across our French doors and this , there 's a went across |
| 18 | THE British admire those who speak their mind cleverly and damn the consequences . |
| 19 | Feet which overpronate collapse inwards and use the foot 's natural cushioning , so you do n't need that much in the shoe . |
| 20 | This extends the inspectorial role of the department considerably and affirms the interests and well-being of the young people in care as paramount criteria . |
| 21 | He took his foot away and pushed the crate into place where it acted as a stop to prevent the door from sliding back open again . |
| 22 | I used to love the letters page but now it gets a bit bogged down in one debate — make it a bit longer and keep the ‘ one-off ’ letters/comments . |
| 23 | It is an archaic situation , and lives on in the unconscious of people today , and may emerge in a random group situation , and is in any case present unconsciously and affects the action of people in groups . |
| 24 | ‘ Tammuz Malamute talks to his computer , ’ says the hag sagely and buries the fly back in her ear . |
| 25 | Book committee day was Wednesday ( later moved to Tuesday ) , when the board would lunch together and spend the afternoon discussing the week 's business : considering written reports , commenting upon manuscripts received , arguing about the merits of ideas proposed for new books , and so on . |
| 26 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 27 | But let us now alter the lexis somewhat and consider the following three words in association : |
| 28 | Roche was forced to return to search work only and take the title of Chairman , to the relief of all , and not least himself . |
| 29 | If we take his timescale literally and approach the late 1870s and 1880s , and merely flick through the pages of Punch magazine — a sure guide to the pulse of respectable discontent in Victorian England — we have an uncanny experience of déjà vu , assailed by complaints of assaults by ‘ roughs ’ on London 's underground railway system ; riotous holiday excursions ; ‘ brutal assaults on elderly females ’ by frightful characters such as ‘ Burly Jack ’ , ‘ Bloodstained Bill ’ and ‘ Smashjaw Ned ’ ; the streets already disfigured by fights involving ‘ the too free use of that popular institution the British boot ’ . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , he was patient and , eventually , I got my act together and spent the night with him . |