Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 3 | One of these is simply to reduce the 240 volt mains supply down to the much lower voltage required by the circuit . |
| 4 | Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’ |
| 5 | The high amplitude contractions travel over relatively long segments of the colon and appear consecutively in the more distal bowel , suggesting that this activity is coordinated and propulsive . |
| 6 | Suggested explanations for this pattern of results focus predominantly on the highly polysemous nature of the English language . |
| 7 | They bring plenty of energy to the quick outer movements and rightly relax somewhat in the more lyrical passages ( repeats are observed , too ) . |
| 8 | In modern English , moral and mental conditions are spoken of in more or less abstract terms ( anger , suspicion , forcefulness and so on ) cut off for the most part , from their etymological roots … |
| 9 | Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas . |
| 10 | They first describe the work of love as a double edged activity with positive and negative effect — purging sin and kindling the heart , clearing the soul and removing anger and sloth , wounding in love and fulfilling with charity , chasing off the devil and extinguishing fear — and then level out to the strongly stressed affirmation which defines the positive potential of the negative statement in chapter one " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 85.19 – 21 ) for he that has " Jhesu " grows through prayer to the fulfilment of human potential : heaven is open to him and he is made a " contemplatif man " . |
| 11 | I hope to have established the point that it is not necessary to adopt the apocalyptic views of events put forward by the more sombre critics , nor to deserve the dismissive label ‘ puritanical ’ in order to believe that there are very good reasons why parents have to enforce rules . |
| 12 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 13 | However , the MacSharry proposals look only in the most narrow , blinkered way for solutions . |
| 14 | He should pull himself together , buy himself a decent set of clothes and pop down to the Today ( sic ) for a shift in the showbusiness department . |
| 15 | I look carefully at the dead fly still gracefully adorning the corner of the screen . |
| 16 | One outcome of this is that there is not a single national daily or Sunday newspaper which supports any political position further left than the Right of the Labour Party , while the great majority of newspapers not only openly support the Conservative Party but also purvey a range of typically Right-wing attitudes which extend far beyond the relatively narrow confines of purely party politics . |
| 17 | Watch out for the much appreciated support in the omnibus Brookside on August 22 and in subsequent episodes |
| 18 | So if you 're a third man , or a third woman for that matter , look out for the specially selected hotels at which you can make some fantastic savings when a third person shares a room . |
| 19 | Badly paced , with a familiar climax ( The Silence Of The Lambs meets Cape Fear ) , but if you stay awake look out for the relatively complex treatment of the IRA early on , the Gulf War references and Sean Bean 's sunglasses |
| 20 | From the Hotel Cavalletto you look out on the most typical of Venetian scenes , as here the public rooms are bordered by a narrow waterfront where gondoliers come and go with their passengers . |
| 21 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 22 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 23 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 24 | These types of problem extend even to the more commonplace types of metalwork in which the lack of replication might lead to the suggestion that everyday items were produced locally as required ; but were such technical skills possessed by someone on every farm or hamlet , at only a few locations , or was the craftsman a mobile specialist ? |
| 25 | Mozart seems to have begun to refine his style of composition , and two of them at least stand well with the very popular symphonies of the next decade — the Symphony in G Minor , K.183/173dB , written in October 1773 just after his return from Vienna , and the Symphony in A major , K.201/186a , written in April the following year ( see PLATE IV and 19 & 20 ) . |
| 26 | They meet regularly in the newly built Chinese community centre . |
| 27 | Most popular are precast concrete paviours and slabs , but look around for the more interesting surface textures and designs . |
| 28 | I look forward to the fortnightly meetings . |
| 29 | In some respects their concerns run parallel to the much more extensive studies recently carried out on social work decisions in child care more generally and which have been extensively referred to elsewhere in this volume ( summarized in DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there . |