Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 2 | After travelling back south by barge , the pair have driven down to Tasmania to carry on the circumnavigation where they left off . |
| 3 | We ought to go down the tip later on again . |
| 4 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 5 | I know I have to go down the college tonight . |
| 6 | A determination to rein in the president also lay behind the Case Act that became law in 1972 . |
| 7 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost less estimated residual values of all fixed assets , except freehold land , over their expected useful lives . |
| 8 | Depreciation is provided to write off the cost less estimated residual values of all fixed assets , except freehold land , over their expected useful lives . |
| 9 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 10 | To sum up the position so far : expenditure on the health services has increased substantially since the last war and with it the volume , range and quality of the health services . |
| 11 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 12 | Even before the debate took place , The Times was able to sum up the situation accurately : |
| 13 | Then someone would have to wade into the mouth of the tunnel with a hooked stick to pull out the blockage so that the blood could run away freely . |
| 14 | And as Alison said there , tomorrow she 'll be moving on to Edinburgh to find out the score there for parents , children and those dreaded buggies . |
| 15 | Suppose , I suppose if erm Pat or erm Annette wanted to find out what really happened they 'd ask Dianne and Dianne would tell them cos they , they get to find out the truth then and she was lo lo lying . |
| 16 | Erm I think we 'll go over the working out , how to work out the fraction so there 's two stages really . |
| 17 | Just just think about that and just use that graph there If you wanted to work out the angle there , the tan of the angle would be that over that , but only when the scale is the same on both axes . |
| 18 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 19 | I 've a feeling that , that probably they are all together and that they are safe because I think the , the , the , the Soviets are probably trying to , to damp down the issue now by keeping quiet on it , because I think they 've been very rattled . |
| 20 | Mr Marland wants action to clean up the mess once and for all . |
| 21 | The sounds mingled in her mind with the harsh cries of the birds as she waited for Sybil to pick up the phone again . |
| 22 | From the Brigadier 's office the Captain telephoned Maxwell at the Excelsior , sending Bacci through to the communicating duty room to pick up the phone there . |
| 23 | As this trip was taking much longer than planned , due to many orbits and several beautiful parts of the coastline flown as slowly as possible , we expedited lunch , and were soon airborne heading north to pick up the coast again . |
| 24 | Smack , smack and you end up going to school to pick up the wreckage anyway . |
| 25 | The separation of to and the infinitive by introducing an adverb or phrase : I want you to gently pick up the box instead of I want you to pick up the box gently . |
| 26 | The thugs pounced as Tony McLoughlin prepared to open up the school shortly after 7am . |
| 27 | The initiative to set up the relationship often comes from the client though , at times , this is difficult because he has to approach someone in a very different social position . |
| 28 | It is so frustrating to consider a sample to be exactly what you are looking for and then need to set up the card again to discover just how you arrived at it , while labelling as you go is only the work of a moment . |
| 29 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 30 | There is evidence of criminality and psychotic behaviour in some hyper-kinetics when they reach adulthood , so it is advisable to try to sort out the problem sooner rather than later . |