Example sentences of "[adv prt] [det] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father even allows quite unrelated youngsters to join the family group if they will take on some of the work of baby-carrying . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The aim is to ease the stress of house-buying by giving advice and taking on some of the workload . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Air now passes down this to the mouth of the fish which is connected to tiny openings in the parchment cocoon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I think Guy might fill in some of the background , ’ Scott-Scobie agreed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You know your workbooks that you 've got , he 's actually asking you a few questions relating to the statistics that er , Dr. Bernard 's going to mention , so can I ask you to get your workbooks and a pen , just so that you can jot down some of the information . |
| 11 | Well you , you can actually cut down some of the overtime maybe , and you need to review that and that 's , you need to make that decision . |
| 12 | Kit Everard had calculated that the Rebecca made a sitting target ; she would draw the enemy and pin down some of the fighting men , on both sides . |
| 13 | For some reason it seemed to kick down some of the barrier of strangeness between them . |
| 14 | Laughter seemed to break down some of the barrier of embarrassment that had built up between them and when Carrie lit two candles she handed one to Seb and said , ‘ Good night , Seb . |
| 15 | These were times of change and Keys in his History of Eastington speaks of Hicks as the man ‘ whose water wheels and steam engines shut down many of the cottage looms that had made wealthy many of the Clutterbuck family ’ . |
| 16 | So some of them you can work out buy if you know what a transformer does , it steps down all of the current , it reduces the voltage . |
| 17 | The government intends to publish a plan by the end of April for closing down all of the country 's uranium mines . |
| 18 | I just hope this is enough to bring down enough of the tunnel to stop Mait getting to that full-sized enhancer . |
| 19 | ‘ If we have another couple of the big shires , they should be able to paddle down enough of the snow for the rest to follow on foot . ’ |
| 20 | He saved his friend and I do n't know whether he managed to run down any of the gang . |
| 21 | I 'm just going to park the car well away from the house , just in case this wind brings down any of the roof . ’ |
| 22 | Right , I do n't , I mu , I must say I do n't think I would of won without Karen , she got most of them , I was writing them down most of the time . |
| 23 | The panoply of scholarship Mr Till unfolds in his analysis of the relationship of words to music , bringing in most of the Enlightenment philosophers and writers , is awe-inspiring , as is his knowledge of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II and the whole contemporary Viennese scene . |
| 24 | The Commission had taken seriously its constitutional role of initiating proposals , and seemed poised to take over some of the work load allotted by the treaty to the Council of Ministers . |
| 25 | Besides her other duties she took over some of the maths teaching . |
| 26 | I make no apology for going over some of the ground again . |
| 27 | She turned over some of the stock . |
| 28 | The court was told that Gavin , full-time city council union official at the time of the offences , handed over some of the cash as hardship payments to striking bin men . |
| 29 | Maintenance engineers right and check over some of the process plant on the press floor . |
| 30 | He will then be in a good position to take over much of the rest of the property when his parents die . |