Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 2 | She dropped her robe on to the stool near by and stepped into the water , sinking slowly down into the warmth . |
| 3 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 4 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 5 | Make a small hole through the ceiling next to a joist with a bradawl , leaving it in place while you go downstairs and transfer the position ( and width ) of the joist on to the ceiling downstairs with pencil marks . |
| 6 | 6–6 The Session agreed that the choir should sit in front of the pulpit along with the Precentor instead of in one of the church pews as formerly . |
| 7 | Both ‘ The Daleks ’ and ‘ The Sensorites ’ featured very elaborate backdrops , all of which Cusick had first to draft out as large , highly detailed colour illustrations long before the day when the Scenic Artist would come in to paint them up . |
| 8 | No you do n't , no see they 've had er mums and tots down at the centre today |
| 9 | If , on reaching the lowest level , the points have not been re-aligned positively , with a set tolerance , the procedure returns to the highest level and successively provides a rotational correction down through the system again . |
| 10 | His professional engineering career started on the truck side , and he sees his task mainly as miniaturisation to bring all the advantages of power and economy enjoyed by the heavy goods diesel driver down to the size where they can also be of benefit to the motorist . |
| 11 | So it shoots the notes down into the body better , and the whole instrument resonates . |
| 12 | Grease and press the base down into the tin so that the snipped pieces fold up around the sides of the tin . |
| 13 | and then do your other half of knot , reef knot and tuck it in straight away , you get your pin ready , have it on , either on the table or ready like that , now if you 've got too much material ever you just fold that down , there , if that 's too much , which is n't too much with Denise because it 's the right size sling , sometimes you have to improvise and then you fold if forward and back , firmly , take the pin and put it , put your two fingers down between the casualty so that your fingers are apart and there 's a space between your fingers so you can stick the pin in and out again without any danger , if you put the fingers apart like that , if you do stick the pin in yourself and draw blood would you please throw the pin away , as a matter of automatic hygiene , it must n't be used again once it 's been stuck into somebody |
| 14 | Dee makes plenty of long journeys to clubs all over the country usually in a hired Ford Fiesta , as he does n't own a car . |
| 15 | Telesales er telephone erm I have sold products obviously without the customer even seeing me , I 've sold them over the phone . |
| 16 | • Point taken about the computers , Joel , but let's be realistic — the Speccy was great in its day , but it 's a bit long in the tooth now . |
| 17 | After four years of training , in a homely laboratory atmosphere where scientists working in shifts conversed ( or ‘ signed ’ ) to Washoe and to each other exclusively in Ameslan , she had mastered the use and recognition of 132 signs together with the ability often to pair two of them ( but rarely more than two ) in significant combinations and under appropriate circumstances . |
| 18 | Councillor Seamus Rogers of the Workers Party felt that the County Council should set up a sub-committee to look into the issue , while Councillor Brian Gallagher said they should get experts down to the area quickly to issue a ‘ statement that this will not be detrimental in the long term ’ . |
| 19 | If the path length is parametrized by the proper path length ds then This integrand is unity all along the path so that if s is stationary then so too is a simpler integral where . |
| 20 | ‘ They 're on to us , ’ he groaned , wondering whether he should put his foot down on the accelerator instead . |
| 21 | The engine fired and she pushed her foot down on the accelerator so that the fierce roar echoed her feelings of pent-up frustration . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've got to bring C.W. and Sabrina in on the case as quickly as possible . |
| 23 | This involved the translocation of the gene responsible for resistance to the carbamate insecticide propoxur on to the male-Y-chromosome so that only the males were resistant . |
| 24 | The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead . |
| 25 | It did n't smash , but its beams were cast up at the ceiling , throwing a gauzy light down on the room below . |
| 26 | No matter what type of filter plates is employed , it must be remembered that cichlids love to dig and should they remove the gravel down to the plate then , in effect , the filter ceases to function properly . |
| 27 | Waistcoat and shirt rags pulled back from her shoulders along with the shift beneath , which had split like tissue paper . |
| 28 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 29 | They had eyes only for the journey downwards , now , and battle-fervour , love and pride had long since been sucked from them , leaving them soulless husks : in bronze , or leather , fur-cloaked or bright trousered . |
| 30 | Tufnell bowls , quickly , flatter , and that whistles through outside the off stump , ooh , groans and shouts of disappointment all around the wicket there , echoed by Victor Marks , yeah , yeah in the box . |