Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 2 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 3 | Bob tried to imagine Morris completing the trainee scheme , joining the pensions fund , and going on to groove out the diagonal of Hand and Ball Court morning and night for twenty or thirty years . |
| 4 | He explains that most specialist dies are , of course , catered for , including vegetarian dishes , which , I noticed , were unusual enough to tempt even the staunchest of meat-eaters like myself . |
| 5 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 6 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 7 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 8 | It is surely rather a lot to ask an alien species , perhaps 50 light-years away , to pick up the faintest of traces and then instantly respond . |
| 9 | Of course , you do n't have to set up the JMP-1 through a regular stage rack . |
| 10 | Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work . |
| 11 | Its primary function is to sharpen up the best of good practice . ’ |
| 12 | The more populous the parishes became , the more diffuse the community grew , the more acute the problem : no longer did the overseers or the ratepayers know everyone receiving relief , and it was then far from an easy task to sort out the needy from the charlatans . |
| 13 | Toby Freely felt somewhat out of his depth , not confident enough to sort out the genuine from the assumed . |
| 14 | On the darkened half-landing Frankie rubbed his face to wipe away the last of his tears . |
| 15 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 16 | tyme out of mynde , when any deere of the said forrest … have commen into the said manor of Hackness … the Rangers , and other officers of the said forrest … have always used to fetch out the same with their houndes and to rechase them into the said Forrest . |
| 17 | It is impossible to list here the hundreds of post-graduate , professional , and continuing studies courses that might be of interest to alumni . |
| 18 | Bill drew the curtains to let in the last of the twilight , then , as Faye 's eyes began to adjust , he turned to two low antique glass lamps . |
| 19 | The people murdered last week were every bit as innocent as were the people in the Shankhill Road , and I would be certain that the families of the people in the Shankhill Road would be horrified that the murder of their loved ones would be used as an excuse as an excuse to do exactly the same to other innocent people . |
| 20 | Without him around the energy to do even the simplest of chores had been taken away from her . |
| 21 | I have aimed to answer all the questions usually asked ( and a few more besides ) , but do remember that , whichever hypnotherapist you consult , he or she should be quite willing to do precisely the same for you and to put your mind at rest about anything else which may be troubling you with regard to regression therapy as well as to hypnosis itself . |
| 22 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 23 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 24 | The peasantry , which comprised the majority of the population in the Middle Ages , had no such comfort , for instance : a small hole left in the wattle and daub , covered with a piece of cloth to keep out the worst of the weather represented a ‘ window ’ to them . |
| 25 | Occasionally the Imperial forces try to clear out the worst of these foes , but the area remains wild and dangerous . |
| 26 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 27 | My detector helped me to cream off the best of the finds , but I hope that fact will not deter you from carrying out your own investigations along the 499 remaining routes , if you can obtain a copy of the book . |
| 28 | By not giving this to Athena , the Athenians were tactfully declining to cream off the best for the national goddess , thereby showing that all tribute that was collected was needed for utilitarian purposes . |
| 29 | The man had his back to her until he stopped to lift up the smaller of the two girls . |
| 30 | An internal well-maintained will tend to suck out the worst of the loose detritus before it clogs the undergravel . |