Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said harshly , feeling the worry-sweat burst out afresh . |
| 2 | You can make the bike move up to 1.5 metres in a corner just by shifting your weight . |
| 3 | Shiny plastic and vivid purple padding on the waist and shoulder straps make the sack stand out and guarantee a closer look . |
| 4 | How many feet does the tide rise down at this dock ? |
| 5 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |
| 6 | He let the sentence trail off into a silence that vibrated . |
| 7 | ‘ If what ? ’ he urged when Ruth let the sentence trail off like the vapour trail of the jet high in the deep blue sky overhead . |
| 8 | ‘ The important thing is not to let the milk boil over . |
| 9 | I hated pushing the medicine dropper in between the rows of teeth , now permanently bared , and the hot dry lips , and watching the milk dribble out at the comer because it would n't swallow . |
| 10 | He drank some of the coffee and smiled , that ruthless , dangerous smile of his that made the heart turn over in her . |
| 11 | Will the money run out , as it did once before , with the consequential loss not only of the technological advantages gained but of the scientific and technical expertise ? |
| 12 | What made the case stand out was the motivation for Otto 's pilfering . |
| 13 | However , there was no facility to simply draw a line and let the computer work out the curves . |
| 14 | When the office lifers came the next day and tried to make the computer come up with some figures they wanted , what it printed out was this poet 's poetry instead . |
| 15 | It is important to realise early on that the degree to which you can let the computer get on with producing your pages automatically corresponds exactly to the amount of control over those pages that you will be able to exert as a user . |
| 16 | ‘ Old Mother Walsh , ’ Pike said again , ‘ let not the snake come out of the sky ! ’ |
| 17 | Delaney stood , watching the hatch close up , with the last view of the car headlights turning away towards the main building and the control tower . |
| 18 | Assuming he did , one day , manage to get her into bed , what would happen after she had shimmied off the veil , let the cloak fall around her naked ankles , and then eased her white , sweet-smelling flesh out of the shift to reveal … |
| 19 | But then , in matters of love and war , it is caveat emptor : Let the buyer watch out . |
| 20 | He had stared at the bottle in his hand , walked outside , smashed it against the outhouse wall , watched the liquor run down , dark against the brickwork , and returned to the house , almost reeled past Matey as though he had drunk all of it , and mounted the stairs to her room to remind himself of what he had lost , hurt though it might . |
| 21 | So who does the responsibility come down to in the end ? |
| 22 | And as I say we did the mass picket down in Inspector was coming straight up t an the Sergeant to y you know what 's like to leading er people and he said , Now what 's the what you going to do what 's what you want this morning ? |
| 23 | It also deprives the government of any room for manoeuvre in fiscal policy should the recession turn out to be worse than expected . |
| 24 | She let the sewing drop on to her lap and her shoulders drooped a little . |
| 25 | So when did the hair grow back on your bollocks then Stu ? |
| 26 | The stories of what it was like there in the hours that followed , and of the lingering deaths of 31 of the most exposed people , make the hair stand up on the back of your neck . |
| 27 | People who 've seen it say it makes the hair stand up on the back of their necks . ’ |
| 28 | Multimedia is often associated with flexible software , sometimes called hypertext , which lets the user go off and browse in directions of his own choice in search of ill-defined information . |
| 29 | The reverse should also be considered ; that is , why should n't the user feed back into the system so that the system performs in a way that is best for the user ? |
| 30 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |