Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn .
2 Slowly Georg got out of the van , looked around to make sure there was no-one who knew him , then he walked quickly across to the station restaurant , entered , and hid himself quickly in a booth that had a view of the rails .
3 There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest .
4 This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly .
5 ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’
6 The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats .
7 At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises .
8 If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) .
9 The horses all looked spruced up for the occasion with plaited manes , even the two disgruntled piebald ponies on which perched two identical solemn-faced small girls .
10 One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise .
11 ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’
12 Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half .
13 Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . )
14 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
15 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
16 The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole .
17 Its distance is 130 light-years , so that Aldebaran is not a genuine member ; it merely happens to lie in between the Hyades and ourselves .
18 A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid .
19 So that 's how you look after your bandages and all these things that we 're going to show you you 'll find in those little sections in your first aid book so if you get confused or why you 've only got to look up in the book .
20 But it might as well save its money if it is merely going to flow out of the country into the pockets and profits of foreign firms .
21 It is vitally important that the engineer should be given as much information as possible and should not be merely invited to turn up at the site and work things out alone .
22 The body shell had been crushed in and anybody in there could only have come out through the windscreen .
23 He would have liked to give more information , ask someone to research the final days of the tsar ; but he knew that would only have got back to the KGB , and in this game secrecy was the only key he held .
24 Of course now it 's warm enough to start getting out in the garden , what could be better than to take a selection of water toys to play with in the paddling pool outside ?
25 ‘ Why should he suddenly have materialized out of the blue ? ’
26 Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’
27 Executives who commit corporate crime are not coerced into it , they do not necessarily have to go along with the advice or instructions of superiors .
28 If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured — and such there might well be , considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents — let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago .
29 The kettle sang quite quickly and meanwhile the stove , never entirely allowed to go out in the winter , had coughed into life .
30 The famous $18,000m black hole that Gartner Group so memorably spotted opening up in the heart of IBM 's business will suck the entire company into oblivion if it does n't embark on a crash programme to save the AS/400 .
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