Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 2 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
| 3 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 4 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 5 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 6 | Put on the glad rags and go out and party , after that ? |
| 7 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 8 | P.C. Foster took down the relevant particulars and then escorted Woolridge to the cells . |
| 9 | ‘ I love you ! ’ he said shakingly , and bent his dark head to kiss her , desire flaring between them , relief mingling sweetly with it , their mouths clinging and their arms round each other obsessively , twining together like bindweeds on that hot terrace with the scarlet bougainvillaea trailing down the dusty cliffs and the sea glittering turquoise beyond . |
| 10 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 11 | She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm blew itself out . |
| 12 | Then you ride out alone , across the springing grass all beset with tiny jewel-like flowers ; you ride up the rushy mountains and down the rushy glens and come to the mouth of the dragon 's cave . |
| 13 | The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries . |
| 14 | I looked down the other scores and confirmed that Jack was in about twentieth place , so he would need a very special round today to force his way back among the leaders . |
| 15 | Go down the two ladders and enter the second door , walk down the steps and onto the stage , then it 's under the spotlight to perform all those great songs the Blues Brothers are famous for . |
| 16 | From ‘ above ’ , a left government could attempt to gain control over the deployment of investment funds , in particular the surplus income of the personal sector , while from ‘ below ’ workers could struggle for democratic control over the particular enterprises which employ them , breaking down the managerial hierarchies and commercial secrecy of these enterprises . |
| 17 | Perhaps now is the time to run down the older methods and , if this is not the case , maybe some additional training is required . |
| 18 | Whitby is worth minor discomfort , however , and we quickly clambered down the 199 steps and strolled around the endlessly fascinating harbour and backstreets . |
| 19 | An extraordinary rainfall , ‘ greater and more violent than any within the memory of witnesses ’ broke down the artificial embankments and the rush of escaping water carried away four bridges in respect of which damage the plaintiff sued . |
| 20 | The Western sheep and cattle rangers cut down the big trees and put a stop to the burning of bush . |
| 21 | The following Saturday I began a tour of Chelsea , Fulham and Kensington , staring into shop windows up and down the three boroughs and watching young men going about their business in the hope of eventually finding the right person to run Trumper 's . |
| 22 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 23 | You slide down the social classes and you move to areas like Hackney . |
| 24 | Stir in the shredded leaves and broccoli . |
| 25 | Gently stir in the other ingredients and arrange in scallop shells or on a plate . |
| 26 | Away from the heat , add the sugar to the pan , then stir in the ground almonds and the lightly beaten eggs , in that order . |
| 27 | Stir in the ground almonds and Sweetex Granulated . |
| 28 | One way of dealing with these problems is to run off a standard pro-forma , to fill in the blank spaces and send them off to parents . |
| 29 | Now one of the problems is that doctors are rather reluctant to do that because it 's very difficult for them to be sure that a particular headache or a particular skin rash has been caused by one of the medicines which the patient was taking , so the doctors are not very good at filling in the yellow cards and these are not a very good way of reporting adverse reactions , and to get over that we are starting now to use computers . |
| 30 | Copy the following sentences into your file and fill in the missing words and phrases : |