Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 2 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 3 | Ugly and irregular in their bodies as in their features , delineated in harsh thick outlines , these creatures are either static , frozenly waiting — as if for blows — or blackly and stiffly at work , or walking down roads with the clumsy , painful gait of arthritis sufferers . |
| 4 | And drags down Mira to the nether World . |
| 5 | ‘ We figured that we could bring in artists from the '90s to interpret Hendrix using the computer technology that was only a dream in the '60s , ’ explains Storey . |
| 6 | ‘ So you brought in Gerald on the open side . |
| 7 | Prescriptivism is , in essence , the view that it is possible to lay down rules for the correct use of language . |
| 8 | Banks are closing down branches by the hundred . |
| 9 | Existing agreements lay down guidelines for the maximum credit period and the minimum interest rate . |
| 10 | We give more money to the Common Market budget than we give in aid to the third world . |
| 11 | He struggled to bring in attractions like the popular singer Sandie Shaw but the ballroom was in trouble . |
| 12 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 13 | At last , it 's party time Down South after the never-ending election |
| 14 | Jill Neville was , and is , a novelist , whose arrival in Britain had been part of an earlier 1960s Australian wave , more tied to bohemianism than to the music and the scene that sucked in Australians in the mid 1960s . |
| 15 | As Reinhard Drifte has observed , ‘ Here for the first time , the idea of a Japan-US security treaty emerges along lines of the actual treaty of 1951 . ’ |
| 16 | After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin . |
| 17 | Meat production in the Soviet Union was down 12% in the first part of this year , while milk production has fallen by 10% . |
| 18 | In the nightmare my father , the under-gardener , my brother and I were throwing sticks to bring down walnuts from the great tree halfway between our home and the Court . |
| 19 | Arrese got together a study-group of hard-line Falangists , whose mission was to draft four documents : a new version of the Party Statutes , which had last been revised seventeen years earlier , in August 1939 ; a law of the Fundamental Principles of the State , which was to encapsulate the basic tenets of Francoism ; a law of the Movement , which was to give legal form to the distinction between " the Party " , FET y de las JONS , as a clearly delimited group of political activists , and " the Movement " , which encompassed all those who actively or passively subscribed to the values which inspired Francoism ; and an Organizational Law of the Government , which was to lay down ground-rules for the legislative and executive powers of the government . |
| 20 | Position the plant in the centre of the pot so that its crown is about 2 cm ( 1 in ) below the pot rim ( 1 cm/½ in if the compost is soilless ) , spread the roots out if they do not already form a compact ball with the soil and , holding the plant with one hand , fill in compost with the other all round the roots until the pot is full . |
| 21 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 22 | A NEW TV detective will use breaks between programmes to embark on his first case — to track down investors in the latest sale of BT shares to the public . |
| 23 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 24 | The festival of Sekaten is marked by a week of playing sacred musical instruments called gamelans , brought in procession to the Grand Mosque — a colourful and tuneful display . |
| 25 | Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you . |
| 26 | Copy the cashing-up slip on page 76 , and fill in details for the following . |
| 27 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |
| 28 | That would help us track down details from the relevant auctioneers . |
| 29 | One local says helicopters brought in reinforcements to the isolated rural area an hour before the shooting began . |
| 30 | At home she 'd be doing a bit of shopping , gardening perhaps , or turning down invitations to the over-sixties whist drive . |