Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | It is when these fail that sex , drugs or alcohol are invoked to more effectively push down the pain . |
| 4 | Together with the Socialist Party ( 142 seats ) and a new Christian Democratic party called the Mouvement Républicain Populaire ( 152 seats ) , the PCF formed a bloc which effectively ruled out the possibility of any constitution that de Gaulle could approve . |
| 5 | The Bank , by rejecting offers at r 1 , is in effect reducing its demand for bills ( D 1 to D 2 ) , and thereby drives up the rediscount rate to r 2 . |
| 6 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 7 | Jack walked slowly back up the stairs numb and shivering . |
| 8 | After which , his empty sledge on his back , he would walk and clamber slowly back up the steepness to enter once more into the dripping slate shaft and repeat the exhausting process . |
| 9 | The saliva dries and hardens quickly and with repeated flights , the bird slowly builds up the line into a low wall . |
| 10 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |
| 11 | There is also evidence that TV , as a technology which works by electronic scanning , effectively shuts down the functioning of those parts of the brain that reason and think actively and logically — the skills that have been associated with the left hemisphere of the brain . |
| 12 | However , the dead were also afraid of the living , who might desecrate their tombs , destroy their bodies and thereby bring about the eternal annihilation of their identities . |
| 13 | At the highest levels of constraint the pocket can eventually swallow up the point d , precluding the possibility of a higher quality solution . |
| 14 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 15 | In other words , it will have to buy up the excess foreign currencies on offer with extra pounds — pounds it has created , thereby building up the foreign currency reserves . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Tiphook Piggyback System Demonstration — This new innovative system will be actively demonstrated explaining how road vehicles can be successfully carried on the railway . |
| 18 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
| 19 | If the patient has successfully carried out the task that was agreed he should now be helped to plan what to do before the next session . |
| 20 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , they were soon moved to different duties , but before doing so they were able to train a third person , a Sergeant , who has since carried on the work . |
| 22 | More importantly , both groups wittily peel back the scabs of modern pop until they form into mottled bruises . |
| 23 | She knows the kinds of places she likes to work , sleep and eat in , and will instinctively seek out the right type of office , hotel , or restaurant . |
| 24 | In the United States , fear of European embroilment and the pro-Nationalist zeal of many American Catholics effectively cancelled out the sympathy felt in liberal circles towards the Republic . |
| 25 | Stones and earth ( weathered rocks ) slowly slip down the slopes , by soil creep , into the channels . |
| 26 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 27 | This bridge , recently rebuilt and enlarged , was built in 1849 , thereby opening up the Estrada Monumental ( then just called the New Road ) past Reid 's Hotel and out to the west , through the present tourist zone . |
| 28 | It would be misleading therefore , effectively to write off the outer circle of kin as significant sources of support in British society . |
| 29 | The memoirs of great inter-war players like Dixie Dean , Tommy Lawton , and Stanley Matthews politely skate over the issue , but a Manchester United player in the 1920s recalled a telling incident involving the club captain , Frank Barson . |
| 30 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |