Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 2 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 3 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 4 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 5 | Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin . |
| 6 | Over supper we sit down in the low evening sun and watch the hills change from one blue to another , to mauve , to grey , to black . |
| 7 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 8 | Back down in the secret gareden there 's still plenty to explore , including more tunnels — some of which are not empty … |
| 9 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 10 | The capes are famous for a confused and ugly swell , and peculiar lumps of wind that crash down from the coastal peaks of the Taurus Mountains . |
| 11 | Sweetman turned a furious smeared face at us , then drove his garish boat hard at Wavebreaker 's hull to gouge a long scratch down to the bare metal . |
| 12 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 13 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 14 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
| 15 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |
| 16 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 17 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 18 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 19 | For the large flag , paint a straw with silver food colouring and when dry , glue on to the large paper triangle . |
| 20 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 21 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 22 | In winter , when the storms bluster in from the Mediterranean and the valleys glow green , the cloud comes down and Beaufort simply disappears . |
| 23 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 24 | Head down to the local travel agent and check out the availability of sun-drenched spring breaks at resorts catering to families with small children ; |
| 25 | Dyson looked at old Eddy , head down behind the dusty newspaper files , nothing visible of him but his tousled white hair . |
| 26 | If you clamber down to the low water mark when the tide is receding ( the ‘ ebb ’ tide ) , you will find dry land appear before you and rivulets of water flowing out towards the sea . |
| 27 | The Welshman sent Critchley over within three minutes of the second half and was in support to take Tait 's pass and touch down in the 56th minute , with Holliday 's goal setting up an aborbing final quarter . |
| 28 | The simplest explanation was that Maxham was getting nowhere with the Newley case ; and he 'd sent Viol along on the off chance , to put a little pressure on Lorton and see what happened . |
| 29 | It is thought to be exploring how insurance risks compare and fit in with the other financial risks it already manages routinely for customers . |
| 30 | And Pilger , an exasperatingly prickly individualist determined to expose the ills of the world , stubbornly refused to lower his standards and fit in with the new requirements . |