Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 2 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 3 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 4 | She had picked up the letters from the wire box behind the front door , dropped off her coat on her way across the hall and gone into the kitchen . |
| 5 | He had picked up the pieces after the war and it must have come as a total shock to someone with his background to find players in his side who rocked the boat . |
| 6 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
| 7 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 8 | As Sir Bryan had predicted , the weather had sorted out the men from the boys and difficult pin placings had not been needed to tame the pros . |
| 9 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 10 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 11 | I said I 've done , I 've done both the sides of the , my garden and Maureen 's garden . |
| 12 | Match fees and bonuses for winning pushed up the wages of the best players , but travel and hotel expenses had to be met out of the £5 or £6 payment for away games . |
| 13 | When the first of the pair is to be used alone the tails of the notes should all be turned upwards , and rests for the second player placed below . |
| 14 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 15 | All the same , he was in no doubt that Matthew Glynn had handed over the contents of the cardboard box to Swayne with a view to some sort of deal . |
| 16 | Then the heavens opened for torrential rain , thunder and lightning and the resulting floods washed away the bridges on the high road from Bridgend to Port Ellen and on the low road over the Machrie river . |
| 17 | Waves washed away the words on the page as they swamped islands , ships , sailing craft and poets ' daughters . |
| 18 | The war just ended had shown up the divisions between the pro-French and the pro-English factions within Bordeaux . |
| 19 | Mr Gatward said TVS has narrowed down the candidates for the MTM job to two . |
| 20 | Mr Gatward said TVS has narrowed down the candidates for the MTM job to two . |
| 21 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 22 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 23 | Many times , Labour Members have pointed out the iniquities of the standard spending assessment , which is based on irrelevant data more than 10 years old . |
| 24 | A number of commentators have pointed out the inconsistencies in the approaches adopted by SSAPs 15 and 24 . |
| 25 | ‘ And I 've pointed out the inadequacies of the underbidders , ’ said Mr Lilley blandly , in a reference to the Korean underbidder , Hyundai . |
| 26 | During the past two days we have heard a vast number of contributions and I pay tribute to the common sense and foresight of Labour Members who have not only pointed out the inequalities of the system that is still in being but the pitfalls that we see ahead of us . |
| 27 | Having fleshed out the frames of the characters , Whitaker virtually gave Coburn a free hand in his teleplay , needing to concentrate instead on the vast amount of work involved in reshaping the series with the loss or deferment of so many storylines . |
| 28 | The trio were modifying the trolley with implements they must have brought in the pockets of the golf-bags . |
| 29 | The blue top and bottom trims not only set off the looks of the tank , but also obviate the need for a layer of polystyrene under the tank . |
| 30 | When the kelp industry collapsed , the landlords , who had themselves set up the crofts in the first place , tried actively to get rid of them . |