Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Peace , a Victorian villain , once commented that the dangerous constable was the one who ‘ neglects his duty to go courting the servant , or nips up the entry to get a surreptitious drink . |
| 2 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 3 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 4 | A high and uncertain rate of inflation is disturbing because it reduces the efficiency of the market economy and slows down the process of economic growth . |
| 5 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |
| 6 | He knows every corner and brick of the cathedral and points out the glories of the 11th-century ( Romanesque ) triforium with its later , inferior , 14th-century equivalent : ‘ You do see , do n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | And goes down the way . |
| 8 | He was wearing a white shirt tonight , with very full sleeves and ruffles down the front . |
| 9 | Excel boasts a graph creating wizard , which guides you through graph creation , and turns out the kind of thing you see in the screenshots . |
| 10 | The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body . |
| 11 | This exercises and tones up the muscles to the side of your tummy , helping not only to improve your waistline but also to flatten your tummy . |
| 12 | The child becomes frightened and holds back the faeces making the constipation worse ( Levine and Bakow 1976 ) . |
| 13 | The letter states that efforts will be made to create a ‘ fair distribution ’ of press releases , and holds out the olive-branch of club membership before the next company-reporting season in November . |
| 14 | If , however , the motor trader defendant is not responsible for turning back the mileometer and covers up the reading , the motor trader should be able to escape from liability on the basis that no false description was in fact applied to the goods ( s1(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 15 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 16 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |
| 17 | None of this gives the impression of an unreservedly enlightened society and bears out the differences in attitudes and opinions between younger and older people to which reference has already been made . |
| 18 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 19 | I know they can be affected by wind and frost and it turns the leaves brown and kills off the buds , but why is only one affected ? |
| 20 | Throw away all the books that give a stable routine which starts at 7am with morning feed and fills up the rest of the day with activities like quartering and setting fair — most of which none of us have time for ! |
| 21 | The retailer selects the items he wants and fills in the form as outlined above . |
| 22 | … this closes the directory browser and fills in the Command Line section on the Program Item Properties box . |
| 23 | However , Cézanne very often goes further and tilts up the top of an object even more towards the picture plane , so that it appears sometimes as if seen almost from directly above , while continuing to show the rest of the object from a more normal , slightly lower point of view . |
| 24 | Eventually the track emerges from the woodland onto open moorland , and climbs up the hillside . |
| 25 | Using this phenomenon I evolved a design that appeals to my sense of aesthetics , based on simple sections of a hollow sphere , and shows off the grain of the wood to best advantage . |
| 26 | If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques . |
| 27 | ‘ Well I Wonder ’ releases the eardrum pressure and hangs on the line ‘ Please , keep me in mind ’ complete with the synthetic rain of an outsider 's view of Manchester . |
| 28 | Or as Marshall P. Knutt , the conscientious sanitary engineer who gets mistaken for a hot-shot and ends up the hero of Carry On Cowboy . |
| 29 | Bono stiffens in his chair and spits out the list . |
| 30 | On the wrasse territory , a male defends a harem of females ; when the male dies , one of the females changes sex and takes over the harem . |