Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They took it in turns to breathe in the smoke , as the substance sizzled with a malicious delight .
2 The first coordinate value of a pair refers to position down the page from the top , while the second coordinate is the distance across the paper from the left .
3 Erik Olin Wright , for example , has broken down the concept of ‘ determination ’ into six distinct relations : structural limitation , selection , reproduction/non-reproduction , limits of functional compatibility , transformation and mediation .
4 But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine .
5 Nine days after the first spillage the government 's Marine Pollution Control Unit declared : " The stormy weather has broken down the oil and driven it out to sea .
6 Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe .
7 The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage .
8 Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters .
9 But if that is n't bad enough , it is n't scheduled until April 24 — which means he has to sit out the inter-provincials .
10 Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it .
11 The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four .
12 It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works .
13 For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood .
14 Miller ( 1981 ) has pointed out the dangers of sloppy terminology here .
15 Scriven has pointed out the distinction between formative and summative evaluation .
16 As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand .
17 Bishop John Taylor , in his moving and perceptive book The Go Between God , has pointed out the importance of this link between the Spirit , with all his undifferentiated power , and the Word , with all its particularity of meaning .
18 Nisbet ( 1979 ) has pointed out the irony that this new distrust may itself be a product of modern education , since a number of new approaches to teaching and learning encourage children to ‘ think for themselves ’ .
19 Lionel Sawkins has shown that men did , indeed , sing soprano parts at the French court , and Lois Rosow has pointed out the appearance of male sopranos in the chorus at the Paris Opéra .
20 She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household .
21 But after a visit to his home by a senior officer of Cleveland Police , he has painted out the symbols .
22 3DO Co Inc , San Mateo , California has filled in the details on its planned initial public offering and has filed to offer 2.2m shares , all new , at a target price of $11 a share to raise working capital to fund anticipated operating losses .
23 The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps .
24 Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ?
25 Sun Microsystems Inc , one of the players , has given up the SparcWare designation used by its Catalyst independent software vendor programme to the group 's new binary-compatible branding scheme .
26 My chief 's brother has given up the obstetrics side of his practice altogether now , and just does the gynaecology . ’
27 However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post .
28 An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery .
29 Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go
30 Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go
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