Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rose , flashing down at Harry the easy , sidelong smile of a born conspirator . |
| 2 | Cottle obliged his impractical friends with his habitual amused indulgence , and having sent Coleridge ‘ all that he had required , and more ’ , rode down to Clevedon the following day to pay his respects in person . |
| 3 | When he had come back from Grasmere the first thing he had done — despite George Wood 's vehement protests — was to pay back the loan and bring his hotel bill up to the mark . |
| 4 | Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea . |
| 5 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 6 | It is a line which has stirred up against Macedo the same emnities which led to Chico Mendes 's murder . |
| 7 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 8 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 9 | So we were lucky and then we opened up on January the fourth nineteen fifty five . |
| 10 | And I joined up on March the fourth nineteen eighteen . |
| 11 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 12 | A somewhat distant claimant to the Lusignan inheritance — the great comtés of La Marche and Angoulême — he was nevertheless bought out by Philip the Fair for 1000 1 . |
| 13 | Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon . |
| 14 | We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience . |
| 15 | Friday 's planned run was , unfortunately , wiped out by an inopportune burst of flu , so most of the mats were handed out on Saturday the 16th between noon and midnight . |
| 16 | More recent imports include Stearman N746BJ which , unusually , was actually flown across the Atlantic , arriving at Glasgow on July 30 and then flying on to Gamston the next day . |
| 17 | I tell you I do n't , did n't realise that er Paul and Charlene have said er they can move in by June the second all you 've got ta do is dump everything in there then bugger off to Malaya for the summer and sort out when he gets back ! |
| 18 | Big Jack walked out on Newcastle the next day . |
| 19 | ‘ The quicker you get back to Paris the better , Nessy , for all concerned . ’ |
| 20 | After the cruise , you will fly from Aswan to Cairo and overnight at the Cairo Marriott , flying back to London the following day . |
| 21 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 22 | And I had to go back to Norwich the next morning with a load . |
| 23 | And if he had meted out to Elise the same unpredictable treatment , the same highs and lows , then it was n't beyond the bounds of possibility that he was the kind of man who made a girl , driven beyond all logic , all reason , decide that life without him was no longer worth living . |
| 24 | This church took the old name of St. Lawrence and served the people of Upper Halling until October 21st 1971 , when it was officially closed , being finally pulled down on Friday the 10th May 1974 . |
| 25 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 26 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 27 | The Seehandlung organisation , set up by Frederick the Great in 1772 to promote trade along the Prussian reaches of the Vistula , was expanded and reorganised to seek outlets for Prussian goods in Silesia , India , the West Indies , South America , China and the Balkans . |
| 28 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
| 29 | Their speciality was tunes like In Sans Souci — to remind Twenties Berliners of that nice Sunday afternoon tram ride they could take out to Frederick the Great 's summer palace at Potsdam — a trip no West Berliner has been able to take for half a century . |
| 30 | Even if the deadline were to fall tomorrow without our succeeding in buying them we can still go on until July the 27th . |