Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question at the time , in May 1941 , when the Vietminh was founded and Ho was talking bravely about taking on the combined French and Japanese armies in Vietnam was , of course , anachronistic : the two principal Allied powers had not yet entered the war . |
| 2 | Let's have a bit of light on the subject " She switched on the blue urinal and looked at it . |
| 3 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 4 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 5 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 6 | Yellow lines and speed humps would be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 7 | Yellow lines and speed humps could be put on the narrow road and a mini roundabout set up at the junction of Lakeside and Parkside . |
| 8 | He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it . |
| 9 | He switches on the interior light and picks up a bundle from the passenger seat . |
| 10 | I do n't remember the carpet coming up to hit me , nor finding it hard to breathe , nor at that moment did the judge put on the black cap and say that I must swing by the neck until I was dead . |
| 11 | I put on the black basque and the lacey-topped stockings . |
| 12 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 13 | Child gets up at 5.30am every morning and switches on the electric fire and all the cooker rings . |
| 14 | The timeswitch he 'd primed earlier had flipped on , switching on the electric fire and igniting the materials he placed over it . |
| 15 | She switched on the electric kettle and made a cup of instant coffee flavoured with powdered milk and artificial sweetener . |
| 16 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 17 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 18 | They suggest that , within the family , women take on the expressive role of nurturing the other family members , while men take on the instrumental role and go into the outside world to earn the family 's wage . |
| 19 | I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda . |
| 20 | At ten thirty-five , Rachaela switched on the main light and walked behind the screen into Ruth 's area . |
| 21 | Now that the Asian elephant has been put on the endangered list and included in the Red Data Book of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature 's Survival Service , governments will find it difficult officially to sanction catching operations . |
| 22 | If the Minister is saying that the proposal is liable to bog down the entire system and cause administrative chaos , he may be right as regards some of the effects . |
| 23 | With the RAF closing down the adjacent airfield and it going on the market next year , YAM ‘ hope to expand and seek to continue to expand ’ , remarked Ian . |
| 24 | At the height of the heatwave , with Hurley in Washington , Coleman finally had to notify the embassy that he was closing down the listening post and moving into the hotel across the street to save the equipment as well as the family from overheating . |
| 25 | The treaty was eventually ratified but the crisis brought down the Kishi government and produced the most widespread political protests of the postwar years . |
| 26 | Sex equality slipped far down the political agenda and women had to fight hard to retain the rights they had won in the 1960s and 1970s on abortion , welfare benefits , maternity and employment rights . |
| 27 | The man now walked down the central aisle and halted beside the projector , where he turned and spoke . |
| 28 | Er it 's no good saying you 'll turn down the central heating and you 'll only take one holiday instead of two , that 's not really the purpose of retirement , and I think you 've got to be objective about what you 're doing with this . |
| 29 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 30 | It is hoped that it will provide a flexible structure which can be refined and developed and which may help to break down the monolithic structure and mystical nature of the subject . |