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

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1 ‘ Yow can throw that down the sink !
2 That 's what I said to Warren , I goes , this is going to Norway , this him fucking Norway ! like that down the microphone .
3 Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 …
4 we had to plaster it underneath because erm he had to , we just had wires like this down the end ?
5 In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle .
6 And there was the beds that was there there was beds were still in that bothy and there was there were three of them must have been in the bed you see , and then there was a a board that they slipped in half up the bed and there was a a mattress or whatever on that and another three on that .
7 We 'll sort this out the slow way .
8 We had all this out the last time .
9 Chuck this out the window .
10 There is another back the way we have come …
11 I suddenly discovered I was very much down the bottom of the pile . "
12 Cos he said , look at these out the thing !
13 It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri .
14 He looked beyond them to the pony and cart , then added not unkindly , ‘ You could get that up the drive . ’
15 Well I mean I can get that up the end .
16 opinions and principles like [ Wilde 's ] have from time to time manifested themselves all down the course of history , generally in over-ripe civilisations wavering on the brink of decay .
17 Then she saw Lachlan flush , Hector 's mouth twitch and eyes all down the tables exchange glances .
18 ‘ And you know , I 've never said this , although I 've thought it a lot : you 've always been kind to me all down the years .
19 It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs .
20 All down the years .
21 All down the front of your coat
22 Many candidates all down the line think of headhunters as privileged individuals able to hand out plum jobs willy-nilly to those in their favour ; at the same time — somewhat contradictorily — they regard them as dodgy , cowboy characters who have arrived at their coveted positions in life after having failed at everything else they have attempted .
23 He wore a baggy tracksuit with what looked like a jam stain down the front and egg yolk all down the sleeve .
24 There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ .
25 I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’
26 All that was substantial to her was the boy whom she touched all down the length of her but did not touch .
27 He was scoring off us all down the line .
28 So anyway , that Christmas Eve night confirmed my worst fears , it was like a kind of ‘ royal flush ’ for the infant Jimbo : all three kings — Pa , Santa and the King of Kings — all down the pan together …
29 Lili was going to wear a crimson redingote of stiff taffeta with dull pewter buttons all down the front , a skull cap of crimson velvet atop her rusty curls , grey gun-metal stockings and gloves , and Egyptian crimson slippers .
30 ‘ I think he 's angry that having given me the freedom to think for myself , I 've not followed him all down the line . ’
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