Example sentences of "[adv prt] [det] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on each of the souls pouring out of Narnia on Doomsday looks at Aslan as it comes through the Door-way of Death — to be saved if it loves , destroyed if it hates . |
| 2 | Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying . |
| 3 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 4 | ‘ After I win , I 'll take on some of the opponents Eubank has beaten , and do a better job , ’ said Piper . |
| 5 | William Parker takes on some of the baritone material with unabashed lyricism and plangency , leaving Elly Ameling to bring refreshing charm and beauty of tone to the soprano Mélodies . |
| 6 | The aim is to ease the stress of house-buying by giving advice and taking on some of the workload . |
| 7 | As certain areas of Great Britain , for example , take on some of the characteristics of divided societies , the focus of this study also has a relevance , of increasing proportion , outside the province and beyond what many residents in Northern Ireland might see as most directly pertinent to them . |
| 8 | The issuing house will underwrite the issue ( i.e. agree to buy up any unsold shares ) for a fee , and will generally pass on some of the risk to sub-underwriters , who are usually large institutional investors . |
| 9 | Everyone in the crowd was bowing back , and the waves of motion proceeded down each of the streets like ripples out across a pool . |
| 10 | Air now passes down this to the mouth of the fish which is connected to tiny openings in the parchment cocoon . |
| 11 | I am making the assumption that Kirov will be able to fill in some of the blanks once we come up with a workable number … probably no more than three . |
| 12 | Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words . |
| 13 | ‘ A botanical illustrator who 's retired here is filling in some of the gaps in our plant and tree records . |
| 14 | Russians are filling in some of the gaps in their lives by seeking out anything that was forbidden or hard to get in Soviet times . |
| 15 | A second year of practical experience on another mixed farm , together with concentrated reading , will confirm and consolidate the earlier lessons ; local day-release courses in special aspects of practical farming can fill in some of the gaps . |
| 16 | She wondered how she could fill in some of the gaps . |
| 17 | ‘ I think Guy might fill in some of the background , ’ Scott-Scobie agreed . |
| 18 | I 'll bring in some of the kids who were there and Jonesy can imitate the preacher . ’ |
| 19 | Without even trespassing into any of these more perilous aspects of pre-war street life , the Mass Observation study The Pub and the People ( 1943 ) filled in some of the detail of the rowdy bonhomie of the working-class weekend , and the ‘ high point of mass drunkenness ’ during the exodus from the northern towns to Blackpool . |
| 20 | Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up . |
| 21 | We passed along some of the corridors and slammed some of the doors . |
| 22 | And Sid had said , ‘ If I had the time I could write down some of the things I 've seen that you would n't believe . ’ |
| 23 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 24 | Mrs Bottomley 's announcement confirmed reports that she had opted to water down some of the Tomlinson proposals , but it still came under almost immediate attack from Labour and the unions . |
| 25 | Determined to delve deeper into the matter , the DFG , one of the major channels for state funds for research which distributes DM 900 million ( £200 million ) annually for all subjects , has asked some of Germany 's top researchers to review their own areas and try to pin down some of the problems . |
| 26 | These associated activities , together with the relative accessibility of this type of abstract work , can only help to break down some of the problems which non-figurative art poses for many spectators . |
| 27 | And maybe we should take down some of the torches . ’ |
| 28 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 29 | In particular , this will show whether greater proximity has broken down some of the barriers which have traditionally existed between the two groups or , as some theorists have suggested , has led to a re-definition of their differences . |
| 30 | ‘ We had a gale last night , and it brought down some of the tiles on your cottage . |