Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filling in perfectly for the missing men , women filled in the gaps in such important industries as agriculture , to provide food , weapons and munitions manufacturing , and railways and transport . |
| 2 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 3 | Replacing the glass with care , she slid back down in the bed and deliberately conjured up the scene in the Seren at the moment the engine cut out and she was about to capsize . |
| 4 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 5 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 6 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 7 | One occasion was when my daughter , who I had suspected was a better reader than she had ever let on , casually picked up The Wind in the Willows while I was unpacking after a house-move , and read out the first page with great expression and hardly any mistakes . |
| 8 | Miss Braithwaite had picked up the gap in Hereward 's curriculum vitae fast enough . |
| 9 | Richie had picked up the urgency in his voice and had stopped chewing . |
| 10 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 11 | Years later , when they told this story , those who had conceived the plan insisted that they would have carried out the attack in their own names , as rebels , and not under the Shah 's authority . |
| 12 | According to press reports the guerrillas claimed to have carried out the attack in support of a state-wide bandh ( political strike ) backing the implementation of the Mandal Commission report . |
| 13 | A former member of the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , Sgt. Felix Ndimene , said that he had served in a special forces unit which had carried out the massacre in September 1990 of 26 passengers in a Johannesburg-Soweto train [ see p. 37698 ] , an incident which had provoked weeks of violence in the Johannesburg region between ANC and Inkatha supporters . |
| 14 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 15 | Internal Affairs Minister Khristo Danov declared on June 5 that he was convinced that Bulgaria 's former secret police had carried out the murder in 1978 of Georgi Markov . |
| 16 | Hastily he redirected his attention towards the circular screen that he had hung on the wall in place of an oil painting of some horned , scaly jungle monster . |
| 17 | Richie Daly had sailed down the Mersey in the same convoy as Gerry and now he was home . |
| 18 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 19 | And there is a good account of the infamous Nixon/Kennedy TV debate when Kennedy 's aide even turned up the heat in Nixon 's dressing-room to make him sweat more . |
| 20 | The following season he made 64 not out as nightwatchman against Trinidad , was moved up the order in the second innings , and responded with 188 ; a year later , in 1943–4 , also against Trinidad , he and John Goddard put on an undefeated 502 for the fourth wicket , at the time the third highest partnership in first-class cricket . |
| 21 | Rupe roots for his mate Bob Rupert Murdoch has stirred up the possums in Australia , his former homeland , by praising his mate Bob Hawke , the Prime Minister , and dismissing Andrew Peacock , the opposition leader . |
| 22 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 23 | The black comedy of the gallows scene in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera is very Verdian and also very Karajanesque ; and though Karajan often made out the critics in Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben to be a nicer bunch than they probably are , I have yet to hear a more vitriolically gossipy performance of the ‘ Tritsch-Tratsch ’ Polka than the one Karajan conducted with the Philharmonia Orchestra in one of his last recordings with them in September 1960 . |
| 24 | Again this hope seems set against the tides of history , but again we can not be certain that a positive policy of Empire and tariffs could not have turned back the tide in 1902 or 1912 . |
| 25 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 26 | The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle . |
| 27 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 28 | One officer was convinced his superior had spelt out the situation in his corps in detail , so accurate was her diagnosis when she preached . |
| 29 | A survey has found just two white rhinoceroses in Hwange National Park , Zimbabwe , raising fears that poachers have virtually wiped out the animal in the country 's main game reserve . |
| 30 | They had gathered up the dolls in their arms , some of which were nearly as big as they were . |