Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It replicates itself , and each new copy , which is independent of the original , goes on to carry out the task for which the virus was designed . |
| 2 | we 'll be going back to the Manor Ground a little later on to find out the winner in our manager competition . |
| 3 | USL 's DCE for Unix SVR4 will be an extension of Siemens ' reference work that the pair will collaborate on to tighten up the integration . |
| 4 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 5 | ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’ |
| 6 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 7 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 8 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 9 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 10 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 11 | She reached down to pick up the sweater she had thrown on to her own oilskins . |
| 12 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 13 | I turned the boat into the first drift and bent down to pick up the rods . |
| 14 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe someone comes in to pick up the post from time to time . ’ |
| 16 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
| 17 | Barnet players have not been paid by the club for the past three weeks and , although the Professional Footballers ’ Association have moved in to pick up the £30,000 tab , £80,000 in promotion bonuses remains unpaid . |
| 18 | Britain , as the largest of these , had stepped in to sort out the country 's chaotic finances . |
| 19 | Mr Popple unravelled some toilet-paper and threw it down to cover up the spider as it was thrown against the ceramic sides of the bowl . |
| 20 | Adorable 's favoured method of song construction is to start with a slow , dreamy melody and then accelerate to Warp Factor 11 with very loud , sharp and combative peals of guitar swooping in to rough up the tune and kick it momentarily off course , before Piotr grabs hold of the melody again . |
| 21 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 22 | Steve suggested drily , bending down to mop up the water at her feet . |
| 23 | When Semple departed , Dalton Trumbo came in to build up the Dega character in line with the buddy-buddy movie trend . |
| 24 | Nasty strategies like Always Defect will come in to keep down the numbers of too nice strategies like Always Cooperate . |
| 25 | There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals . |
| 26 | ‘ I called the NRA and they sent someone down to soak up the oil from the surface with sheets of foam . |
| 27 | She 's going around calling me a murderer and she 's invited this Cobalt in to turn over the place looking for drugs . ’ |
| 28 | We were just looking for a suitable warren to send our ferrets down to flush out the occupants . |
| 29 | Even Willis 's appearance , the spiky short black hair and the prize-fighter 's countenance , had not changed much since he had played truant from Elementary school and gone down to hang about the docks . |
| 30 | The hounds are sent in to flush out the fox from its haven . |