Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 2 | Christina kneeled down to pick up the handle of a cup . |
| 3 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 4 | Just as I was about ashore , I bent down to pick up the ball , getting a wet sleeve in the process . |
| 5 | He bent down to pick up the photograph which was what had fallen . |
| 6 | ‘ Thanks , Mister Tom , ’ and he bent down to pick up the book with the marmalade cat in it . |
| 7 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 8 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 9 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 10 | And above the flames of burning houses rose up to drown out the moonlight and rush hot air into their streaming faces . |
| 11 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 12 | The RCM tried hard to play down the issue , arguing that all those working for refugees would achieve most if they cooperated . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I think I 'd better wash up the breakfast things , if you do n't mind . |
| 14 | I suppose I 'd better put up the notice . ’ |
| 15 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 16 | I wondered where you 'd got , we did ring one night couple of weeks ago but we did n't get an answer and I said well I did n't know whether you 'd perhaps popped up the club . |
| 17 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 18 | And she 'd away back up the way to bed again . |
| 19 | But I 'd already started up the spiral . |
| 20 | My shoulders brushed both walls at once , so I twisted slightly to cut out the sound . |
| 21 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 22 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 23 | The windows were sparkling , the ivy stripped away to let in the light . |
| 24 | When the critical point was reached in mid-1941 , he acted quickly to turn down the heat . |
| 25 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 26 | He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ . |
| 27 | This does not distinguish have from get , however , as the latter also implies effectual causation : ( 175 ) * Miriam now got Pengally to break down the gate , but he said he really could n't go that far , |
| 28 | It was only this January that the Canadian government stepped in to prop up the project taking a 6.5 per cent share which has subsequently been sold to the Murphy Oil Company of Arkansas . |
| 29 | And South Bank-based Camping Holidays for Underprivileged Children ( CHUC ) stepped in to take up the offer from the Fry Street hotel . |
| 30 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |