Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 2 | ‘ Years ago we threw the old didacticism ( dowdy morality ) out of the window ; it has come back in at the door wearing modern dress ( smart values ) and we do not even recognize it ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 4 | Nor is economic failure an adequate explanation ; Mr Mubarak has manoeuvred cannily in between the reforms demanded by foreign donors and Egypt 's ability to absorb change . |
| 5 | A failed test means no progress that round , and a test failed by 30 or more means the character has slipped right back to the bottom of the stairs — anyone beneath him must make another I test at -20 to avoid being carried back down as well . |
| 6 | The body has slipped slightly down into the bed , rucking the shroud at the waist and behind the right shoulder . |
| 7 | Maclean opens his account in Madrid against local player Alberto Codina a week today , while for Donaldson , who reached the semi-finals of the Danish Open last month , the Guernsey event at the end of next month marks another breakthrough in that it is the first time she has gone straight in to the main draw for a Grade A tournament . |
| 8 | They still call it melton ; but look at the difference : the heart has gone right out of the cloth . |
| 9 | ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings ! |
| 10 | NOW that the Zooropa extravaganza has passed by along with the Trip to Tipp , Slane and various other festivals , it 's back to bread and butter fare for promoters . |
| 11 | Their digging has cleared right down to the gravel tidy — without it they would have rendered the undergravel filter quite useless . |
| 12 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |
| 13 | ABOVE , RIGHT Regular cleaning of the upper part of the ear is recommended , and may help to prevent infections from becoming established lower down in the ear canal . |
| 14 | There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway . |
| 15 | She hummed a tune and pretended to care about tasting a fragment of fish she 'd pinched up out of the herby broth . |
| 16 | Well the earnings of course went into the business we 'd er There was Dad , he 'd retired then out of the pits , early . |
| 17 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 18 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 19 | Then , when the war ended in the summer of 1945 , after being demobbed from Germany , he 'd gone straight back to the US , with no possible hope of any real communication between them except for one or two impermanent and unreliable addresses . |
| 20 | Now once he 'd stepped forward on to the on to the shore what happened ? |
| 21 | I opened the door for Patterson and then locked the cab up after he 'd stepped gingerly on to the pavement . |
| 22 | Like one of those European taxis that you get picked up in at the airport in Paris . ’ |
| 23 | Her family history is equally dramatic and could almost have come straight out of the pages of a Barbara Cartland novel . |
| 24 | So when Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson hastily gave him a free transfer to Spain 's Sporting Gijon more than three years ago , you 'd have bet that the battered Irishman would have slipped quietly out of the limelight . |
| 25 | The irony is that had the tower been higher and had the teak ‘ scrubbers ’ been less efficient , the smoke would have gone straight up into the air . |
| 26 | I spent a week on the rack , far away from home , constantly trying to achieve this extra margin which , I hardly need to point out , would have gone straight down to the bottom line and would have been shown as profit . |
| 27 | ‘ I keep thinking she might have gone out on to the balcony instead . ’ |
| 28 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |
| 29 | If I had so wished , I could have climbed out on to the wing and with the use of a telephoto got an unusual shot of the unique S-shaped ground with its mock-Wembley turrets in terracotta . |
| 30 | The river , suddenly materalizing , would have poured straight down into the streets , flooding everything , including the prison . |