Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 2 | It replicates itself , and each new copy , which is independent of the original , goes on to carry out the task for which the virus was designed . |
| 3 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 4 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 5 | we 'll be going back to the Manor Ground a little later on to find out the winner in our manager competition . |
| 6 | It would be misleading therefore , effectively to write off the outer circle of kin as significant sources of support in British society . |
| 7 | USL 's DCE for Unix SVR4 will be an extension of Siemens ' reference work that the pair will collaborate on to tighten up the integration . |
| 8 | Bob tried to imagine Morris completing the trainee scheme , joining the pensions fund , and going on to groove out the diagonal of Hand and Ball Court morning and night for twenty or thirty years . |
| 9 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 10 | There should be time not only to carry out the patient care but also to discuss and evaluate it . |
| 11 | It 's small enough to carry on the hill , but the historical introductions get together to give a good potted history of the Golden Age of Alpinism . |
| 12 | WHEN it comes to munching mince pies , there is only one expert in the world robust enough to carry out the definitive taste test — Father Christmas . |
| 13 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 14 | If you feel it will be difficult to stand back sufficiently to carry out the sorts of procedures we have discussed in this chapter , then it may be best to avoid them . |
| 15 | Sometimes the rainfall in winter is barely enough to cancel out the soil moisture deficit . |
| 16 | Better to stroll back the way she had come , then perhaps she would cross over the road and look in the souvenir shop . |
| 17 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 18 | ‘ We had to call the police helicopter in to light up the area so we could see what we were doing . ’ |
| 19 | Whereas a traditional craftsman would decide what should be done , how it should be done , when it should be done , and to what level of quality , as well as actually executing the task itself , modern management within capitalism takes on all these former conceptual functions , leaving labour merely to carry out the mechanical aspects of performing the manual task . |
| 20 | I did n't need to use any weights as the skeins were heavy enough to pull out the kinks . |
| 21 | I remember one morning some friends of mine were fast asleep on the beach when a tractor drove along to rake up the sand . |
| 22 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 23 | You already know enough to work out the answer for yourself . |
| 24 | Knotting on the matching pareo , she made a mental note to telephone them as soon as she collected her wits enough to work out the time in the UK . |
| 25 | In the early 1970s , industry observers thought that IBM was strong enough to shake off the challenge from Japan . |
| 26 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 27 | It is difficult enough to find out the features that matter , even more difficult to assess them and almost impossible to see how they fit together . |
| 28 | He chops hard through the chest cavity and reaches inside to pull out the heart . |
| 29 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 30 | For all the talk of Welsh rebirth , Scotland 's performance ought to be good enough to set up the Triple Crown chance at Twickenham next month . |