Example sentences of "[verb] clean [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment of pupils around the notion of girls keeping clean and tidy , and boys being a ‘ bit of a tearaway ’ is an obvious barrier to the requirement that they be treated as individuals . |
| 2 | And it might say do not dry clean and the customer has it dry cleaned and of course the garment is very likely going to be ruined . |
| 3 | Perhaps manufacturers ought to come clean and just build pink guitars with purple headstocks ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 's absolute humbug for cricket 's administrators not to come clean and tell the cricketing world everything that took place inside Lord 's famous pavilion that Sunday . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Patients are expected to come clean and be provided with a change of linen . |
| 6 | ‘ I just throw my dirty clothes on the floor and next day they appear clean and pressed in my wardrobe ’ . |
| 7 | Part of the task of the modern tobacco promoter is to make the smoking habit appear clean and healthy , and to imply that it is all right to smoke if we take plenty of exercise . |
| 8 | We dress up like bit-part players in an epic on Scott and go out into the night where the air bites clean and deep , and the snow crunches in that beautiful cold way . |
| 9 | The Steamatic makes all the difference between having a kitchen that looks clean and having one that truly is . |
| 10 | But the home looked directly out upon the life of the High Street and seemed clean and well-run , although its appointments and furnishings by no means matched the magnificent brass door-knocker or the gracious proportions of the house itself . |
| 11 | Many filter systems will quickly clear suspended matter in the water ( which will appear clean but may not be ) , and of course , the addition of charcoal or zeolite will remove some of the nasties that build-up . |
| 12 | If the paste-down is missing or adrift , you will experience the pleasant sight of wood looking clean and fresh from the plane that smoothed it four hundred years or more ago . |
| 13 | Game-for-a-laugh Heather Murray came clean when she contacted Sunday Life last week to solve the mystery . |
| 14 | I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show . |
| 15 | Is it not time that the Secretary of State came clean and admitted to the House that the boats are dangerous , the cost of repair and renovation is beyond reasonable expenditure and the boats should be withdrawn ? |
| 16 | Now some of his players are saying it 's time he came clean and declared his intentions . |
| 17 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |
| 18 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ You wash clean and dry dirty , that 's always been your trouble . ’ |
| 20 | The new church has an opportunity to start afresh and keep clean and clear and strong relationships . |
| 21 | Do your company 's vehicles look clean or dirty ? |
| 22 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 23 | With four Merlins now completed using this meticulous rebuilding technique ( and two more under way ) some thought had been given to methods of preserving clean and corroded surfaces alike . |
| 24 | Great care should be taken with the rock in this area until it has all washed clean and settled down again . |
| 25 | RIGHT It is essential that excavated finds are washed clean and their context number marked on them with waterproof ink . |
| 26 | She 'd seen Jeanette close-to , and she 'd seen her scrubbed clean and ready for home . |
| 27 | The letters of the machine used for it had been brushed clean and the worn ribbon replaced at some time after the letter was typed , but all the other characteristics including misalignment of the ‘ d ’ and the unreliable shift control — had shown up in the enlargement and eventually confirmed that Wickham had found the machine he was seeking . |
| 28 | Some clinicians make the mistake of giving stickers for staying clean but this can easily cause additional problems of the child 's becoming constipated to stay clean rather than passing motions in the correct place . |
| 29 | The place was scrubbed clean though flies feasted on the huge globules of red blood spattered across the white-washed walls . |
| 30 | Essentially , ‘ the soul wishes to keep clean and whole . |