Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paintings are virtually priceless , covering three centuries of Lombard devotional work up to the start of the Neo-Classical period , and the decorative work is exquisite . |
| 2 | Paul Wilkinson headed an Andy Peake free kick out to the right where Proctor scored with a fine angled shot . |
| 3 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 4 | There he found Ann sweeping dirt out of the front door into the street , and inside , Sam Gristy , who was holding Martha 's hand and looking like a cat that 's stolen the clotted cream . |
| 5 | Now consider the next reversal ( R N ) which takes the south magnetic pole back to the North Geographic Pole . |
| 6 | But uhum , it sticks , whilst the other one just curls straight back up at the edges did n't it . |
| 7 | Isobel flicked ash out of the window carelessly , and frowned . |
| 8 | That was how she saw it and it added to her perturbation just as the sight of Tom leading hay over under the far wood gave her a quite unnecessary pang for she had never really loved him . |
| 9 | Then Satan scented water off to the left and swung in that direction . |
| 10 | Experts say that the antiquities at Ur and Tel El-lahm date back to the Sumerian period . |
| 11 | On the eve of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin carried out a minor reshuffle , recalling one of his closest aides , Mr Gennady Burbulis , from the post of First Deputy Prime Minister back to the safer climes of State Secretary . |
| 12 | First I took a twenty-centimetre electric-piping bomb out of the War Bag . |
| 13 | As the crews launched their rafts at Hay-on Wye on Saturday , ahead lay a 100-mile long journey down to the river to Chepstow . |
| 14 | Christina approached a young lad unloading crates of Cockspur golden rum on to the veranda of a tiny bar . |
| 15 | In the sagas told of government economic policy up to the late 1960s , the natures of the heroes and villains vary according to the teller , but there is an element common to many of them . |
| 16 | When you start to build bonfires in someone 's back garden , there 's never enough space between the fire and the property , and consequently you can get all sorts of damage er either of a minor nature of blistering , or at the other end of the scale complete burn out of the house . |
| 17 | The word EMPTY lit up on the dispenser . |
| 18 | As Tiguary announced the plan to the assembled chiefs , Dulé could see the scene in his mind 's eye : the fire licking up one mast , then leaping in the rigging to the other , snaking through the spars , then falling in sparks , and setting the decks to smouldering while sleepy men sloshed water about with the balers , yelling orders to one another , until , when the flames had lit up all the timbers and the ship blazed in a transparent lattice of spars and ribs , her defenders would fling themselves into the sea and the warriors would swoop out of the shallows and fall on them : it would be as easy as catching fish . |
| 19 | Clearly , the difference here between traditional approaches ( as exemplified by Wyld , Dobson and others ) and sociolinguistic approaches is that , whereas the former project a uniform state ( standard English ) on to the past , the latter project linguistic variability on to the past . |
| 20 | Charming , my dear ! ’ he muttered through closed teeth , throwing his Louis Vuitton overnight case on to the sofa . |
| 21 | ‘ Your nan used to take you in there , ’ he said , ‘ with this dead hamster in a cage or the bloody goldfish floating belly up in the bowl , and she 'd wink at him and say , It 's very sick , can you take it in the back and make it better ? |
| 22 | All the activities are marked with a clock to show you how long each activity takes , so you can keep your students busy right up to the end of the lesson . |
| 23 | GAUCHE , OVER the top t'witching and ‘ woulding ham job with Julian Sands zapped way back to the 18th Century by Richard E Grant 's title character . |
| 24 | So they move three or four from the mixed ability middle band up to the top band , and three or four down to the middle band . |
| 25 | Ray completed his required 43 hours flying time out in the Algarve region of sunny Portugal , a far cry from the Cumbrian airstrip where he began his training . |
| 26 | Vic Reeves presents his Christmas Big Night Out at the Albany Empire : see Top of the Chat Big Audio Dynamite ; Raw-knuckled rock ‘ n ’ roll at the Subterania : see Rock/Folk Thomas Mapfumo : chart topping with the album Corruption |
| 27 | It is a pleasure to welcome two members of a distinguished Belfast musical family back to the Festival . |