Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's thought bad manners not to offer a visitor a night of passion after tramping round the icy far north . |
| 2 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 3 | There were two reasons not to use the phone at home — the cost to a generous woman living on a widow 's pension , and the impossibility of talking in the open-plan downstairs without being overheard . |
| 4 | But before looking at the two most important examples of planning for peace , the Beveridge Report and the Butler Education Act of 1944 , it is important to note a number of ways in which peacetime policy changes were foreshadowed by ad hoc wartime measures . |
| 5 | In a diagram : There is a significant distinction in meaning between the two nevertheless , and it accounts for the use of the bare infinitive with the former . |
| 6 | She lifted a bottle of Champagne from among the photographs cluttering the occasional table beside her and passed it to Charity with an instruction to fill the glasses and hold the chatter , because she insisted on listening to the nine o'clock news on the wireless . |
| 7 | Uncle was quite keen on listening to the nine o'clock news and I remember hearing Mr Churchill . |
| 8 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 9 | He 's coming tonight to stay , to bring the benches which are gon na go on the outside here . |
| 10 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |