Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 32 | What uses up the conventional memory ? |
| 33 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 34 | A look is created , forgotten and then reinvented years later as it hits a dead end and digs up the tried-and-tested looks of yesteryear . |
| 35 | Looking at those lists provides interesting reading and bears out the used-car trade 's view that having a lead-only car could prove to be a liability . |
| 36 | Peter Wharton , charged with protecting the magician puppet , said : ‘ Sooty bears out the old truism that life begins at 40 1992 will see him gain legs and a new Nineties image . |
| 37 | The DJ fills out the early evening playing the most obvious indie-dance records , as he will finish the evening . |
| 38 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 39 | A track leads down the open fellside to join Fell Beck , whose peaty waters eventually tumble into the fern-hung swallow hole of Gaping Gill . |
| 40 | OLYMPIC hero Seb Coe shows off the new girl in his life … and reveals that he 's just Maddy about her . |
| 41 | Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times . |
| 42 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 43 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 44 | Nothing about what conjures up the distinctive perfume of a bookshop , however . |
| 45 | A sound that conjures up the balmy shores of the Carribean . |
| 46 | Knox 's account of the bond and its aftermath compellingly conjures up the new spirit released by that small group in December 1557 . |
| 47 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 48 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |
| 49 | It conjures up the bad image about opiates on a general scale , y'know . |
| 50 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |
| 51 | The requirement for long-term robustness rules out the general use of dowels but the thought of complex , angled mortise and tenon joints is intimidating . |
| 52 | Furthermore , it is said , a defensive strategy based on such weapons effectively rules out the actual use of nuclear weapons . |
| 53 | Stencil , in short , pursues a quest the absurdity of which rules out the modernist option of structuring by myth . |
| 54 | I caught myself shouting at people or giving them lectures about elementary things like the importance of oiling their bikes ( I later discovered that oiling bikes in dusty regions wears out the moving parts rather than preserving them ) . |
| 55 | The problem is that soap washes out the natural skin oils which keep our skin supple and protect it from the ravages of the outside world . |
| 56 | You suggest that Detroit should ‘ join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services ’ ( May 8th ) . |
| 57 | Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services . |
| 58 | Look where you are , and then , ’ she reaches out the undamaged arm to drape it cosily over Rainbow 's hunched-up shoulders , ‘ look where I am . |
| 59 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 60 | Victorine roared with sorrowful mirth : oh what a story , well that certainly cuts out the Blessed Virgin . |