Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva needed the knowledge of that power beyond her own to cling on to over the next few months . |
| 2 | Lee awoke lying on the top of a green , green mountain , being looked down upon by the largest face in the whole world . |
| 3 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 4 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 5 | The easiest way we can get back into the Social Chapter is to accept Maastricht , without Maastricht there is no Social Chapter , with Maastricht we can opt back in to the Social Chapter . |
| 6 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 7 | The unpredictability of the man was more than made up for by the heady feeling of surrendering to life at its sweetest and most bright . |
| 8 | That 'll mean less business for the animal crematorium — but its owners say that 'll be more than made up for by the increasing number of people who are choosing to have their familly pets cremated . |
| 9 | The smaller number of A and C allowances was more than made up for by the greater number of B and D allowances . |
| 10 | The out of centre position is made up for by the excellent rates Amsterdam Travel Service have specially negotiated at this hotel . |
| 11 | In the enlightenment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , scientific medicine finally struggled out from beneath the dead hand of classical authority . |
| 12 | I came out at at the wrong time . |
| 13 | " It 's all right , " he conceded as they came out from between the decaying buildings and the green hoardings , " but … " he smiled and looked at Slater , " do n't give up your day job . " |
| 14 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you know how many firms of bloody architects I 've traipsed round to in the past two months ? |
| 16 | His head nodded up from among the pink clover flowers . |
| 17 | After a few moments , the dancers from the previous number could be seen filing out from behind the golden curtain , having exited on the far side of the stage ; their faces were slack and tired , their breathing hard . |
| 18 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Some events to look out for in the coming year . |
| 20 | Here are some points that Lloyds Bank suggests you look out for in the small print . |
| 21 | But let's have one day we can look back upon in the lean years to come . ’ |
| 22 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 23 | It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour . |
| 24 | Some of the wacky and wonderful things people got up to in the last ITV Telethon 2 years ago . |
| 25 | No tales about defectors and what the Brits got up to in the Cold War . |
| 26 | Which shows how little she knows about what I get up to in the small hours . |
| 27 | We fully support and endorse the deposit greenbelt boundaries , then I think it 's inescapable that at at some point that is going to lead us to leapfrogging over the greenbelt boundary , at some stage during the the the plan period , there may well be sufficient erm commitment and identified sites to mop up in in the short term , but by the end of of the plan period it 's it 's my belief that there will be a need to address this issue by bringing forward proposals for a new settlement , er which obviously Selby district er full fully supports . |
| 28 | Finally he walked out from under the dusty cloth and rubbed his hands together . |
| 29 | Just then , a big grey wolf stepped out from behind the large green plant . |
| 30 | An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train . |