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

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1 They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings .
2 I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) .
3 He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze .
4 Do not pull them on with the nuts , but make sure they fit on their own first , then smear copper anti-seize compound onto the wheel face and centre before fitting .
5 The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house .
6 Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard .
7 I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really .
8 Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards .
9 I keep them on for the programme .
10 The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration .
11 From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn .
12 If we move them on to the street , there 'll be more trouble .
13 We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice .
14 Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked .
15 Spraying the aerosol is the best way to get them on to the enemy , but even this is difficult .
16 Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government .
17 She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug .
18 But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast .
19 At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution …
20 The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach .
21 The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay .
22 As an alternative , radio versions are now available at economic prices ; these allow virtually unrestricted movement to the wearer , the signals being picked up by a special receiver which passes them on to the camcorder via a short cable connection .
23 If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder .
24 The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank .
25 He then threw them on to the ground in the tinder-dry hay loft without putting them out properly , it is alleged .
26 WORMS stopped play in the Wiltshire tennis championships after heavy rain drove scores of them on to the Marlborough courts .
27 It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit .
28 With wrong side of skirt facing you , pick up ‘ stitches ’ from half the top of skirt , putting them on to the needles that are in WP .
29 Keep the test papers safe or pass them on to the class teacher ( or the student ) so that weak areas can be diagnosed .
30 We just clear them on to the runway and tell them what other traffic we expect .
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