Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues who suffer through the menopause sometimes ca n't afford to pay the high cost of a pre-paid prescription charge . |
| 2 | Any plate tectonics model of the Andes must in fact account for the uplift essentially in terms of vertical tectonics . |
| 3 | Everybody w looking but when my father and all was there , there was nine then so there was more so we had to go in th in that big room there and eat off the table there then . |
| 4 | The rules relating to succession to the Crown thus provide for the identification not merely of a part of Parliament but for that of the head of state in all respects . |
| 5 | I long for the day when those in authority will be united in a common quest to win the lost without worrying about the style of Anglican worship ; when they will see that a prime means to evangelise our nation will be to plant churches and encourage it without worrying about parochial boundaries . |
| 6 | He adds : ‘ If you long for the day when Britain can claim to be the first mainly Afro-Asian part of Europe , vote Conservative or Europe . ’ |
| 7 | Send for the brochure today . |
| 8 | We had good churns in those days , the milk in the churn , and she skim off the cream so we had raspberries and cream , and that was gorgeous . |
| 9 | the keys with her and take the er , plug off the telly so we 've got nothing to occupy us ! |
| 10 | Forget about the years in between . |
| 11 | ‘ If I close my eyes , I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and that bright red tip-tank carves its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's eye ’ . |
| 12 | But when I close my eyes , strain my stomach and clench my fist I can still feel the g build as the world smoothly revolves and I see that bright red tip tank carve its silent arc across the azure of my mind 's sky and remember . |
| 13 | slip through the net so far but they 've got to be done . |
| 14 | It is their chronicler 's fault that their words and actions slip through the mind instead of staying . |
| 15 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 16 | ‘ We sleep with the windows tight shut and wake up to a room that is absolutely fresh , ’ says Edward . |
| 17 | Women who sleep with the boss usually claim the attraction was the poetry in his soul , not the promotion prospects . |
| 18 | In the early days , the band 's self-image was completely true because they would walk from the floor of the club on to the state and then mingle with the punters afterwards . |
| 19 | Many of the younger officers have come straight from training school and have only known Grendon Prison , they slip into the regime quite easily . |
| 20 | The feast over , both groups descend into the valley where they dance and sing for about an hour . |
| 21 | ‘ A snatch with the odds on . |
| 22 | And that you , if you wanted to go through appropriate court procedures and disagree with the official then that was up to you . |
| 23 | These ages correlate with the period when Lakes Turkana and Suguta reached maximum levels on the flanks of the Barrier volcano . |
| 24 | Francois Dupeyron , first-time writer-director , is a natural talent ; his images linger in the mind long after you have left the cinema . |
| 25 | Hummingbirds fly in the forests here , in Star Zoo . |
| 26 | He saw the hole appear in the plaster almost right above him . |
| 27 | And it makes no difference in terms of consumption that here they appear in the catalogue rather than inscribed on the surface of the image since the contemporary catalogue has claims to offer a unifying experience for the viewer . |
| 28 | You testify before the Commission tomorrow and I take the kids and go home to Mother in Milwaukee ! ’ |
| 29 | CARNAGE : Flames billow from the crater where the huge jet finally came to rest after ripping a canyon through the shattered Amsterdam apartment blocks last night Picture : DE TELEGRAAF |
| 30 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |