Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 2 | The review will provide evidence to support buying such a dedicated program or whether to carry on using the existing system . |
| 3 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 4 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
| 5 | Secondly , they gave a deterrent theory : the massive support which a man could call on deterred the would-be criminal ( unless his offence was unwitting ) . |
| 6 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 7 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 8 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 9 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
| 10 | The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots . |
| 11 | If you know such a coach then nominate him/her now because the search is on to find the 1993 Coach of the Year . |
| 12 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 13 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 14 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 15 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 16 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 17 | School parties were bused in to see the existing power stations in action . |
| 18 | I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence " |
| 19 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
| 20 | In goes the coarse strainer , and the charcoal pad with the white side facing the foam . |
| 21 | The effects must be charming , to see the dark green elm with the lighter shades of the lime and beech or the yellowish green planes with the silver-leaved abele , the Chestnut , the poplar , the acacia , the horse-chestnut , cum multis aliis , when fanned by a gentle breeze , then how beautiful the contrast , how delightfully the light and shade fall in to diversify the sylvan scene . |
| 22 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 23 | There were signs that Iraq was withdrawing the military support it had sent in to bolster the Lebanese Army against the Syrians , and the reasons for this could be established more discreetly in Beirut than in Baghdad . |
| 24 | All you have to do is press the Ctrl or Alt key and while holding it down press the second key . |
| 25 | Plastic pins simply pushed in to secure the lower half of the handle to the body of the mower . |
| 26 | Excluding the para-military National Guard , they number only 4,400 , whereas the normal US garrison of about 10,000 men had already been augmented to 13,000 before airborne units parachuted in to secure the international airport and clear the way for further reinforcements . |
| 27 | Neither stars nor cloud shadows marked the darkness stretching overhead and on down to meet the equal gloom of the ocean . |
| 28 | Her foot connected hard with Benton 's right shin and he yelped in pain , reaching down to massage the throbbing limb . |
| 29 | when , when I went in to work the other day , Pete says I do n't know about that , that Kenwood stuff |
| 30 | She bent down to retrieve the best china from the floor , whilst Ray picked up teaspoons with one hand and dabbed at the goat 's milk with the other holding his handkerchief . |