Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We helped with putting up the shelves and we filled all the bottles in each shop . |
| 2 | The staff in the main were machine operators , whose jobs ranged from cutting out the designs from the cloth to skilfully stitching the garments together . |
| 3 | These would have been largely overcome had a similar approach to that used in setting up the " persons " system been adopted . |
| 4 | A discipline devoted to finding out the causes of crime in order that it may be stopped was , they pointed out , uncritically taking up an ideologically committed , conservative stance . |
| 5 | In the first half Leeds concentrated on attacking down the left wing . |
| 6 | It did not challenge the essentials of the system between the wars but concentrated on edging up the maximum wage and stressing the benefits of belonging to a mutual aid society for sickness or injury . |
| 7 | The building materials company has been a market defensive favourite for the past decade as it concentrated on keeping down the costs of making its cement , and joinery , glass and steel products . |
| 8 | Will the right hon. Gentleman join me once again in congratulating Mr. James Baker on the notable and indispensable part that he played in bringing about the Madrid conference ? |
| 9 | When it came to setting up the Friends , I found the words ‘ realistic ’ or ‘ moderation ’ did n't have much meaning for me . |
| 10 | This consisted of cutting up the body into pieces and boiling it in wine or vinegar until fat and flesh separated from the bones . |
| 11 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 12 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 13 | Many felt they would benefit from the assistance of trained cancer counsellors , so work began on setting up the course . |
| 14 | I use a punchcard roll and began by punching out the customary two rows of holes for the overlapping join , only to find that the first row stretched the plastic slightly , giving a wavy edge . |
| 15 | Agrarian reform was put into practice in the second half of the 1960s with the passing of a law , which made it possible to expropriate estates of over 80 hectares and they began by taking over the most economically inefficient . |
| 16 | He began by building up the scout movement in the NorthEast and eventually became a scout commissioner . |
| 17 | But he began by scouting out the field of timbre perception from a Gibsonian perspective . |
| 18 | Three years ago , eight I R A men were shot dead when they attempted to blow up Loughgall 's police station ; close to the anniversary of those deaths this year , the I R A succeeded in blowing up the base . |
| 19 | The mighty Great Eastern not only laid a new cable ; it succeeded in hauling up the earlier one splicing on a centre-piece , and lowering it again to the sea-bed . |
| 20 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 21 | Dropping six of the eight singles points proved their undoing against France , losing 7-4 , while they never recovered from giving up the foursomes to the Italians . |
| 22 | The UDC decided against taking up the issue , judging that , despite the breadth of opposition , when the Government made up its mind that conscription was necessary , the defence of civil liberties would crumble before the appeals of patriotism . |
| 23 | She broke down in tears and confessed to making up the story of how she was abducted and held by two men for 36 hours . |
| 24 | Grayson played soccer for Parklands High School before going on to Preston College where he played a little rugby in 1989 but never thought of taking up the game . |
| 25 | I thought of smashing down the door but the idea seemed ridiculous — knocking down the bedroom door of your own mother . |
| 26 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 27 | She dreamed of floating up the aisle in frothy white , to stand beside a dark-suited figure . |
| 28 | Proceeded with tidying up the beach from MH4 eastwards . |
| 29 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council would like to express their appreciation of the effort that went into carrying out the survey . |
| 30 | All the resources of the place went into keeping up the God-Kings life-style , rather than improving the lives of the people . |