Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is built into a special housing to fit the filter box , often on or replacing the lid . |
| 2 | If you 'd like to know more about a real cook 's kitchen , phone us free on or return the coupon today . |
| 3 | For more details of how we are helping companies meet the challenge of the 1990's , and for a free copy of the independent Henley Centre Report on Facilities Management , call us free on or return the coupon . |
| 4 | There are over 50 coral reef fish species and quite a number of invertebrates which live by cleaning parasites and small pieces of dead tissue from other fish living on or visiting the reef . |
| 5 | When a party challenges the validity of a governmental decision , the applicant 's interests might be irreparably damaged if , pending the hearing and resolution of the case by the court , it was open to the decision-maker to act on or execute the decision . |
| 6 | Others are a matter of reassigning tasks , adjusting the timetable of a plan , scaling a project down or postponing the achievement of one or other of the targets which had originally been identified . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman is asking the board either to run down or to close the hospital . |
| 8 | 2 , Calm down or slow the traffic flow . |
| 9 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 10 | For those who become involved at a stage when there is a high degree of frailty , there are many sensitive decisions in daily caring which can slow down or halt the progress of dependence . |
| 11 | Come in or shut the door darling . |
| 12 | ( ii ) the registered foreign lawyer 's solicitor partners play no role in setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling the business ; and |
| 13 | Erm and people would n't know what to do , whether to leave the child at the bottom of the stairs and take the the shopping in or to leave the shopping and have er you know , er think it might go missing or something by the time they take the child and the buggy . |
| 14 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 15 | Krimsky 's participatory role , as well as his logical expository style , make the book interesting reading for those who joined in or followed the controversy . |
| 16 | The police are anxious to hear from anyone who has lived in or visited the house recently or who knows of anyone who has done so . |
| 17 | In what ways might each of these proposed developments reduce the pleasures of people who live in or visit the area ? |
| 18 | Within six months after termination , the employee would not ‘ engage in or undertake the trade or business of an employment agency ’ in Greater London , within a 1km radius of his or her old branch . |
| 19 | This left the restriction against engaging in or undertaking the trade or business of an employment agency within the kilometre circle , for six months . |
| 20 | The statistical and econometric methodological questions which are important in the context of the above data sets are concerned with would , and how , people stay in or leave the sample . |
| 21 | In diplomatic exchanges , at least , the French accepted American reservations about unregenerate colonialism in Vietnam although , as the French pointed out , they could not be expected to assist in or condone the establishment of a government of Vietnam which would not follow democratic principles ‘ as these are understood in the West ’ . |
| 22 | It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence . |
| 23 | Reza Shah exiled one ayatollah who dared to criticize the Shah 's female relations for entering a shrine unveiled , Indeed , one of his military aides was said to have violated the sanctuary of the shrine by marching in and dragging the ayatollah out by his beard , so that the Shah could whip him for his lese-majeste . |
| 24 | But if the alien premises are as subtle as they are pervasive , they can filter in and overpower the mind before it is even aware of their presence , let alone their danger . |
| 25 | And then ri , down a bit further in verse eleven , pass through the midst of the camp and command the people say , preva , prepare provisions for yourself , for within three days you are to cross this Jordan to go in and possess the land which the Lord , your God , is giving you to possess it . |
| 26 | Why on earth did n't they go in and possess the land ? |
| 27 | A young man , dark , short , burly , in a navy guernsey and jeans and gumboots , came in and lifted the coal bags into the Land-Rover beside my cases . |
| 28 | If you have views please write in and request the Decentralisation Questionnaire ( available from mid-July — deadline for replies , 30 September ) . |
| 29 | Er we we go in and sell the advertising if they er we 'll take over as soon as the current supply runs out we we 'll start offering er and supply it for them . |
| 30 | By then both men were heavy-legged and Mason 's inexperience at this level of boxing looked like becoming a decisive factor until he closed in and sent the American down with a short right to the temple and then a following left hook . |