Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 2 | Firstly , a research programme should possess a degree of coherence that involves the mapping out of a definite programme for future research . |
| 3 | This direct editing involves the recording in of video inserts and/or audio dubs . |
| 4 | Moreover , not having a job strikes at that aspect of citizenship which involves the carrying out of social duties , one of which is to earn a living for oneself and one 's family . |
| 5 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 6 | The first and best known of these , which may conveniently be referred to as ‘ horizontal ’ devolution , involves the setting up of a machinery of government exercising jurisdiction over a particular geographical area and having powers , within that area of a semi-autonomous nature . |
| 7 | Even if Mr Takeshita drives the budget through in the opposition 's absence , he will still need time for some further bills . |
| 8 | Pete introduces the records , rants about major record companies and provides a sarcastic , leering commentary of the night 's events , while co-presenter Michaela Strachan whips the crowd up with her boundless high spirits and comperes the competitions ’ Pass The Mic ’ ( an insult to Karaoke , where punters sing along to classic hits until the crowd can stand no more , and shout ’ Pass The Mic ! ’ ) , |
| 9 | Grant drags Doug up and whips the line out of his back , chest and arms . |
| 10 | She reaches over and brushes the hair off of my eyes . |
| 11 | He brushes the forelock out of his own eyes , no less awed . |
| 12 | A beginner starts with about 25 push-ups and then gradually over the following months builds the count up to 100 . |
| 13 | At the moment the beetle squirts the liquid out of its tail , an anti-inhibitor is added to make the mixture explosive once again . |
| 14 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 15 | The drama itself also benefits from this approach : writing in role slows the drama down in a very productive fashion , encouraging children to look at a particular situation in much greater depth than they would otherwise . |
| 16 | Councils are poised to try to ban Sunday shopping next weekend if the European Court of Justice refers the debate back to the House of Lords this week . |
| 17 | splits the day up in such |
| 18 | Like her husband she laughs the news out of court ( 18.10–15 ) . |
| 19 | She threads the Monster back into the high chair where it stiffens , collapses forward , stiffens again , slides down to the crutch-stop and lies there half under the tray , flailing its arms and legs like a crab on its back … and howling — howling like the hell-sent creature it is . |
| 20 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 21 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereign was king of coins . |
| 22 | Mint turns the clock back to a time when sovereigns were king coins . |
| 23 | ( Crawling to bottom of bed , Peg turns the machine round to him . ) |
| 24 | It automatically turns the temperature down of the drying . |
| 25 | A digital to analogue ( D–A ) converter then turns the signal back into its original form . |
| 26 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's when you can go , ‘ That guy knows exactly what he is and that 's exactly what he 's going for , ’ and everybody just loves the shit out of it because of that . |
| 28 | ‘ A complicated sort of photographic process transfers the design on to mesh screen rollers in Chester 's engraving department . |
| 29 | The latest report from St George 's , which covers the period up to the end of 1991 , shows that there were 122 deaths from VSA in 1991 compared with 151 in 1990 and 113 in 1989 . |
| 30 | ‘ My wife tears the hell out of Terry Waite . |