Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 At first sight this degree of fluidity in the Japanese labour market sits uneasily with the presumption that employment is for life because this would make wages a quasi-fixed cost .
2 ‘ With the Hendrix show the work goes right across the range and it covers all the bases . ’
3 The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill .
4 Now there 's the machine is g there the laminated copper er these commutators and it 's on main shaft that goes right through the generator and the turbine .
5 Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left .
6 Trucks would come hurtling down the hill , their brakes would fail , and they 'd plough right through the wall and on into the field beyond .
7 Situated right on the beach and in the lively ‘ Golden Zone ’ , a wide variety of boutiques , restaurants , bars and discos lie practically at your doorstep !
8 Situated right on the lakeside and next to the picturesque harbour in the centre of Menaggio , is the Hotel Bellavista .
9 I appreciated the very great honour of being asked — Coronation opera and all that — but I knew that my voice had been punished mercilessly during the war and I had , indeed , decided to retire from the opera stage .
10 While suspicion as to the source of the leakage had fallen on a variety of people , I agreed wholeheartedly with the decision that Wilson , and presumably the National Executive , had arrived at .
11 Twelve days later I received a call from an exultant Sylvia who told me that , on the previous evening , she had in fact managed to go right into the cupboard and switch off the light .
12 it be known then for that squad just to go right through the gambit and become a fully fledged riveter 's squad and work for their days as a squad ?
13 That little faith went on to go right round the world and it 's here today .
14 Bring slowly to the boil and simmer for 5–6 hours topping up the saucepan with boiling water from time to time .
15 So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
16 But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders .
17 Claudia obediently washed Dana 's thick hair as she sat in the bath , sniffing appreciatively at the perfume that floated round her twin .
18 I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God !
19 ‘ The home market is n't demanding enough about the quality and finish compared with its European counterparts , ’ says York .
20 Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too .
21 Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe .
22 As you will have heard perhaps on the radio or TV the Royal Bank of Scotland is to reduce its staff by 3,500 over about three years , mostly by natural wastage .
23 Either may arise only after the performance or occurrence of some particular acts .
24 Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own .
25 This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating , longest-lasting , and most potent aspects of Eliot 's work : its binding together of the savage and the city .
26 In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed .
27 And what 's more , everyone 's apologising all over the place except for one vile journalist who says it 's possible a misguided vigilante thought getting rid of Harry the only path to real justice , and I want Harry to sue him , it 's truly vicious . ’
28 The recently launched G M B , T and G information pack on the acquired rights directive has been well received all over the country and a revised pack is available here at Congress today , giving negotiators and stewards the latest information and arguments to use to protect members ' jobs and conditions .
29 Each dance should arise naturally from the context and reveal something about one or another or all the characters in reaction to a series of situations .
30 Thirdly , as most of this century has produced a managerial literature based on a fervent belief in rationality and structure in organizations , power as a subject of investigation goes somewhat against the trend because it incorporates so much that is irrational , indefinable and not easily structured into neat manuals of best practice .
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