Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 2 | Now even this annoyed her , the way her father toned down some of the roughness of his idiom , her mother increased the Holywood Hampstead in her voice . |
| 3 | In particular , this will show whether greater proximity has broken down some of the barriers which have traditionally existed between the two groups or , as some theorists have suggested , has led to a re-definition of their differences . |
| 4 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
| 5 | The Gothic vault is a framework of stone ribs which support thin stone panels filled in later over the centering . |
| 6 | Words for strong stemming might be filtered through a table of exceptions which are not to be stemmed ( " organism " , " organist " etc ) Strong stemming is an economical but crude way of automatically bringing in some of the halo of see also terms which surround many search words . |
| 7 | The panoply of scholarship Mr Till unfolds in his analysis of the relationship of words to music , bringing in most of the Enlightenment philosophers and writers , is awe-inspiring , as is his knowledge of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II and the whole contemporary Viennese scene . |
| 8 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 9 | We passed along some of the corridors and slammed some of the doors . |
| 10 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 11 | The Hetherington study shows the increase in the amount of parliamentary news carried on three of the main news programmes , Channel Four News , BBC1 's Nine O'Clock News , and ITN 's News at Ten : |
| 12 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 13 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 14 | I squat down next to the little kid and point again . |
| 15 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 16 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 17 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 18 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 19 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 20 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 21 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 22 | The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square . |
| 23 | It 's a good idea to write down all of the incidents concerning your boss which you believe to be unfair . |
| 24 | The other part of your homework I 've given you to do , is to write down all of the intervals that you can possibly have . |
| 25 | Now though the present owners are re-building the house and plan to pull down all of the existing part . |
| 26 | Congress ( I ) and its allies gained only enough seats to form a minority government ; the party performed particularly badly in its traditional northern " Hindi belt " heartlands , where the BJP made a major impact , eventually emerging as the main opposition party and gaining over one-fifth of the total seats . |
| 27 | One of the simplest things to do is to work off some of the tension by walking to the interview if at all possible . |
| 28 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 29 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 30 | He has also stumped up some of the cash ( together they contributed 30 per cent of the total package , the rest was provided by banks ) . |