Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 2 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 3 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 4 | I send minutes laid out in the proper style . |
| 5 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 6 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 7 | These punishments include having ‘ the throat cut across , the tongue torn out by the root ’ and being ‘ buried in the sand of the sea at low water … ’ — this explains why you tend to find heads sticking out of the beach who refuse to tell you that they 're up to . |
| 8 | After a brief wait and an exchange of pleasantries with Renee , Yanto carried the two brimming mugs back out into the sun and joined Selwyn on the bench . |
| 9 | This provided a package of financial incentives and exemptions from various laws and regulations to encourage businesses to set up in the zones . |
| 10 | I saw tombs open and the terrifying silhouettes of walking corpses set out on the road . |
| 11 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 12 | A few of these dykes reach the surface ; when they do so , a fissure eruption takes place , and basalt lavas pour out over the surface . |
| 13 | It has records going back to the reign of Henry II in about 1165 . |
| 14 | Attempts to encourage otters to come back to the River Thames are being aided by the building of a man-made home for them . |
| 15 | Smoke signals snaked out of the mountain — then tom-toms commenced with a beat |
| 16 | Even one so buttoned-down as Senator Al Gore trembles to consider that if he made a full-out run at Pennsylvania Avenue , every part of his private life would be scrutinized for the sort of improprieties that cause lips to purse out on the Plains . |
| 17 | Each one can be thought of as a chemical factory which , in the course of delivering its primary product of usable energy , processes more than 700 different chemical substances , in long , interweaving assembly-lines strung out along the surface of its intricately folded internal membranes . |
| 18 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 19 | The settlers had claimed legal ownership of the houses in October and had made efforts to move in to the Silwan sector at that time , but the police had prevented them from doing so after the Attorney General , Yosef Harish , had recommended that they be barred from the properties on security considerations . |
| 20 | When the fungus is finished with its host , large club-shaped fruiting structures punch out through the insect 's exoskeleton , leaving the lifeless husk grotesquely studded with bizarre outgrowths . |
| 21 | Those who prepare courses of initial teaching training must ( in addition to meeting conditions laid down by the CNAA ) also satisfy the requirements of the Government 's Advisory committee on the Supply and Education of Teachers ( CATE ) . |
| 22 | He noticed figures coming out of the barn , walking slowly and painfully to their homes . |
| 23 | And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school . |
| 24 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 25 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 26 | I 've often seen toddlers jumping about in the back of cars ahead of me . |
| 27 | It is often better to bite your lip and let pupils charge off in the ‘ wrong ’ direction , because the more of this kind of work you do the less you will be able to define ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 28 | The new vote will be on a revised deal agreed at the Edinburgh summit which allows Danes to opt out of the treaty 's plans for a common currency , joint defence , union citizenship and supranational police co-operation . |
| 29 | They resembled whales lined up outside the headmaster 's office — huge humps sprawled over many kilometres . |
| 30 | The stinging bee will release an alarm scent , causing others to pour out of the hive and join in the attack . |