Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have cleared their shelves of anything that could offend the public or bring down the wrath of the tabloids . |
| 2 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 3 | or pick up the aesthetics of road-haulage . |
| 4 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 5 | Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time . |
| 6 | Direct capitalist control or influence over the communication of ideas ( mass media , publishing , universities ) , and capitalist influence over the state , both structure ‘ debates ’ in liberal democracies . |
| 7 | He continues pouring from one container to another , and after lots of experience and conversation with the adults around him can begin to estimate how much he is going to need to fill the guinea pig 's water bowl or top up the vase of flowers . |
| 8 | ‘ We are very worried someone is going to fall down the cliff or slip off the ship and break something . |
| 9 | Drill or channel out the wall plaster for rear cable entry |
| 10 | Drill or channel out the wall plaster for water pipe entry |
| 11 | Dip this end into hormone rooting powder while it is still moist from the cut so that some powder adheres , shake or tap off the surplus and lay it aside for a few minutes while the others are being prepared . |
| 12 | It may then penetrate the side of a tank or fly over the top . |
| 13 | Or smash up the house or something . |
| 14 | After all , it was join him or prop up the door for a few hours . |
| 15 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
| 16 | Finally , without taking my eyes off the flowers , I may move the vase closer , or walk around the table and look at the flowers from different angles . |
| 17 | So to the beach Kaptan and I would go , or walk around the garden , pulling out weeds , me trimming back the undergrowth while he handed spare tools up the ladder . |
| 18 | As you stroll or stumble along the ridge , you are presented with a vista of deep gullies , rarely without snow , and terrifying chimneys slicing up through the rock . |
| 19 | Or kick off the goal-line . |
| 20 | or give up the shoe-box |
| 21 | … or wire up the junction box to replace a rose , wired from its own junction box . |
| 22 | Always turn off the water at the mains stopcock first ( or tie up the ballvalve ) and turn on all taps ( provided the sink and basin wastes are n't frozen up ! ) and then attempt to trace the position of the burst . |
| 23 | If there is no gatevalve in this supply , the cold water cistern will have to be drained : turn off the supply or tie up the ballvalve ( so that there is still a supply to the kitchen tap ) and open the upstairs cold water taps . |
| 24 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 25 | Onetti never fully fleshes out his characters since in life we can never really know what lies behind the faces of those we meet or pass on the street . |
| 26 | All yelped out in a voice that would wake the dead or summon up the devil from the deepest ring of hell . |
| 27 | Their Game Genie gadget allows players to change the rules , speed up or slow down the action . |
| 28 | Plenty of praise should be given when the dog responds , although there is no point in scolding it if it fails to do anything more than run or sniff around the garden . |
| 29 | The House of Lords felt there was no justification for assessing one trustee , namely the resident trustee , as , for instance , he had no right or control over the income . |
| 30 | The equal opportunities legislation of the 1970s was and is important , but was regarded by most members of the teaching profession as a positive rather than constraining factor and had no influence over the locus of power or control over the curriculum . |