Example sentences of "things [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this is what happens if you do hold things down to that extent . |
| 2 | The confidence challenge tension leads educators to simplify the tasks given to low-attaining pupils , to break things down into tiny , anodyne steps . |
| 3 | ( You 'll need to jot things down in rough first , before you enter totals on the slip . ) |
| 4 | Turning things over at random and hoping to stumble on the sought object usually works when the space to be searched is small . |
| 5 | Are turning things over in high parts of the house |
| 6 | Teller was obsessed by the Super and although he contributed many valuable ideas to the fission project he declined to devote his time to the solid work required to see things through to practical conclusion . |
| 7 | Jim Gardiner made the breakthrough in the first half , then Roddy Collins and Michael Cash finished things off with further goals in the last ten minutes . |
| 8 | if we can kick things off in that , er from that sphere . |
| 9 | Windows provides things like screen drivers and printer selections ; you do n't have to worry about setting things up for each package . |
| 10 | These will be used to set things up for three separate flight conditions : |
| 11 | Sabatini was only setting things up for another time . |
| 12 | Some sites can go and order er things up to fifty pounds . |
| 13 | Back at the house , she waited , tense , to see whether he would take his things up to another room , but he said nothing about it , only slid into his bag with a sigh that assuaged her ; it was the sigh of a child finding a safe place . |
| 14 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 15 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 16 | After all , elementary particle physics is always trying to split things up into smaller and smaller constituents with a view to treating them independently of each other . |
| 17 | After a while he gains in sexual confidence and tries to spice things up by mock-raping her . |
| 18 | You know just creeping in to pick what he can handbags and things up like that . |
| 19 | The Def Leppard singer , at No 10 with Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , admits : ‘ I could never get into a plane and smash things up like some stars do . |
| 20 | The Foundation is said to be motivated in setting things up like this to see the technologies can stand on their own . |
| 21 | Reportedly OSF is motivated in setting things up like this to see the technologies can stand on their own . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry to have messed things up like this . ’ |
| 23 | Only a month of rain will get things back to normal . |
| 24 | There were all the other brothers and sisters , Edith who was good at arithmetic and sorted things out for all and sundry , David who was to become a police inspector , Hilda and Cassie who delighted in their roguish little brother — threepence here , sixpence there . |
| 25 | I 'll check things out at this end to see if anything might be causing it here — you ca n't all have just suddenly changed your addresses ! |
| 26 | and like she was pointing different things out about this cemetery , and , I mean , you know , you there ca n't be many cemeteries |
| 27 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 28 | And it 's the same t squeezing boils and all sorts of things out of other people you know . |
| 29 | Couple of points though about this erm , how the parish council is recognized within the organization because it 's important and that did our day as well and , I suppose in a way it 's the one , one or so positive things out of this that we kind of latch on to , that the communication part is important and erm there may be others that feel the same way that we 're not actually communicating what it is that we 're doing , so , so maybe |
| 30 | ‘ Art can make beautiful things out of ugly images . ’ |