Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows .
2 Kubitsky was bringing his rifle to bear on a target which lay somewhere in the direction of the grove of trees on the river bank to Rostov 's rear , but before he could open fire three more arrows took him in the chest and he fell over backwards without a sound .
3 We go downstairs and sit side-by-side on the sofa .
4 Bring slowly to the boil , whisking constantly , and cook for two minutes .
5 2 Transfer fruit and liquid to a large pan , add the peel and spices and bring slowly to the boil .
6 Add the sugar and bring slowly to the boil .
7 Put the ingredients in a saucepan and bring slowly to the boil .
8 Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time .
9 Bring slowly to the boil , stirring until thick .
10 Put the milk in a small pan and bring slowly to the boil , then pour over the egg mixture , stirring thoroughly with a wooden spoon .
11 They suffer badly from the leaf menace .
12 Well to tell you the truth , I went to own school , when it was er winter , when it comes the winter , they bate somewhere for the winter , do you see ?
13 Concentrate rather on the walking itself .
14 These three correspond most to the expectations and hopes previously voiced by bishops and theological faculties .
15 Some circulate in the Arctic Ocean , others stream down the east Greenland or Labrador coasts and disperse widely in the north Atlantic Ocean , becoming a hazard to shipping .
16 So often gardens today are geared towards large drifts of shrubs and herbaceous material , which , although ideal for easy maintenance , display little in the way of infinite details .
17 and the aargh , just squeezed in and this lad sort of shit himself completely and went zoom right up the road then , well I knew what was gon na happen so I dropped right back and er how he missed him I do n't know , it must of been inches or itches
18 Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ?
19 All creatures communicate only in the manner to which they are instinctively and inwardly programmed .
20 A few of the characters develop greatly throughout the novel , Pip being the best example , but also Magwitch too .
21 Mark and Babur sit together at the head of the bed , holding hands , looking stunned .
22 Cutely , the two band names sit together in the Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles .
23 The eggs hatch synchronously with the emergence of the wasp larvae , and the namatode larvae infect young female fig wasps before they disperse .
24 Professional conjurers who do complicated and difficult tricks practise until they can totally forget the technique and concentrate entirely on the audience .
25 The fact that the song and the receptor change together in the hybrids suggests that there is some control mechanism which prevents the two from becoming uncoupled from each other ; such a mechanism would have the effect of making it more likely that , whenever a male or female cricket changed its song or song-preference during evolution , some other individual of the other sex will have made the complementary change .
26 The menus change daily in the directors ' dining rooms , delibars and staff canteens that he operates because the clientele does not .
27 Repeat all along the row .
28 It says that in every case authoritative directives can be overridden or disregarded if they deviate much from the reasons which they are meant to reflect .
29 At the gal P1 promoter , a member of type II promoters , both the wild-type and the α-truncated RNA polymerases bind cooperatively with the CRP protein with a synergistic ratio around 6–8 .
30 In presence of cAMP-CRP , however , the two proteins bind cooperatively to the DNA and the cooperative DNA binding is mediated by direct protein-protein interactions between the cAMP-CRP and CytR ( 6 , 10 ) .
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