Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , housewives produce or reproduce both the next generation of labourers and the current one . |
| 2 | So , with ‘ fly away Peter ’ you lift up your left hand and , as your fingers go out of sight behind your ears , you put away your index finger and bring out the second finger . |
| 3 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 4 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 5 | The British Government should withdraw its objection to the provisions of Article 20 of the proposed Regulation — provision for a discretionary aid to encourage farm afforestation and the improvement of existing farm woodland — and implement only the second provision in the UK . |
| 6 | Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could . |
| 7 | I am inclined to doubt it , but let us not linger , and consider instead the second premiss of the argument . |
| 8 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 9 | A. T. You used to accumulate this time you worked over and try and get off the last four hours when nobody was about . |
| 10 | At the end , you were totally blind and deaf to it , you 'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and the mix was still going on ! |
| 11 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 12 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
| 13 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | But 27-year-old Clinton is banking on the traditional deafening din to help him wrest the WBO flyweight title from Mexican Isidro Perez and become only the sixth Scot to hold a world crown . |
| 15 | OLDHAM boss Joe Royle is backing his old Norwich City pals to stay the course and pull off the first Premier League title . |
| 16 | I take my hands out of my pockets , and step forward the last pace . |
| 17 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 18 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 19 | Things would deteriorate rather quickly , for Alberto would return to his hotel in the evening with a sculpture eight to twelve inches tall under his arm and come back the next day with a piece no more than three or four inches high … |
| 20 | I guess he must have seen him go in sometime late , and come out the next morning . ’ |
| 21 | It will inevitably take some time before the full benefits of our strategy are realised and , whilst we expect our production and cash flow to remain strong and rise over the next few years , profitability in the short term is likely to remain depressed , even with contributions from disposals . |
| 22 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |
| 23 | So it 's keep the first one fixed , change the second one , and see how the third one changes . |
| 24 | We can analyse our biographical sketch of Ernest Hemingway in this way , and explain why the second version ‘ felt right ’ and the first version ‘ felt wrong ’ . |
| 25 | But consider now the second stage of the argument . |