Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [coord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he added : ‘ The players who 've enjoyed the biggest success abroad have been those who 've blended in and learned the language . ’ |
| 2 | I just assumed he was there to get a tooth filled or something , but Andy must have broken in and switched the records then . ’ |
| 3 | Negotiations with the De Vere hotel group , which were at an advanced stage , have recently broken down and precipitated the receivership . |
| 4 | Thousands of townsfolk just looked on and cheered the thugs . |
| 5 | They 've come down and give the lads tell the lads off . |
| 6 | Dissolves can also be edited in but require the use of rather more sophisticated equipment than for simple fades . |
| 7 | We were in a perfect position to attack the mountain from its north side once we had dropped down and crossed the river . |
| 8 | He had looked down and watched the body trembling and kicking . |
| 9 | The stool on which the boy had been sitting tipped over and hit the floor with a loud crash . |
| 10 | All fatalities associated with this species have occurred when swimmers or divers have casually picked up and handled the octopus . |
| 11 | He was then picked up and rode the entire parade sitting between Campese and Kearns . |
| 12 | First , because it is evident that many of the problems which the Authority identified in 1985 when it established PNP were centred as much on professional attitudes as professional expertise — attitudes to children , to curriculum , to teaching methods , to parents , to ethnic minority groups , to gender issues — and indeed we have picked up and reported the resilience of many of the attitudes which the Authority sought to change . |
| 13 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 14 | Ace had sat up and discarded the ice-pack so that he could face her . |
| 15 | He was credited with having sorted out and rationalized the administration of North Borneo , a country as large as Ireland . |
| 16 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 17 | Philip , however , seems to have overplayed his hand , demanding that Henry surrender Pacy-sur-Eure as security while the exchange was being carried out and causing the English King to break off the conference in indignation . |
| 18 | Alerted by an electronic alarm at the politician 's Holywood home , scores of armed RUC men quickly moved in and surrounded the house at My Lady 's Mile . |
| 19 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 20 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 21 | They stopped it being watered down and prevented the part about combating discrimination from being taken out . |
| 22 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 23 | By the time Lowe settled down back in London , Wilson had bowed out and handed the mantle of Leader of the Labour Party and Guardian of British Socialism to James Callaghan , the right-wing Labour MP for Cardiff . |
| 24 | Once Lutyens had sought out and co-ordinated the ideas of nearly 1,500 tradesmen , artists and authors with the gifts and donations from private sources , the Dolls ' House Committee under the chairmanship of Sir Herbert Morgan was delegated to pursue items to furnish the house . |
| 25 | But most of the philosophers who have written about and explored the nature of being have not been so crude . |
| 26 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 27 | ( The same year , Wayne had acted in and directed the gung-ho Green Berets , which supported US military involvement in Vietnam . ) |
| 28 | They have come forward with plans which , they say , are carefully costed and carefully thought through and represent the interests of the great body of the Scottish people . |
| 29 | Alternatively , you can have a new will drawn up and revoke the old one . |
| 30 | ‘ I have tidied up and laid the fire for evening , madame . |