Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During June 1843 , Thomas , William and Adam Barrow , Thomas Grigg , James Bell , John Speddy and the Adventurers ' Team , carted a total of 606 tons 17 cwt. 3 qrs. @ 2/4 per ton down to the quay from where Benjamin Dixon and his assistants boated it down the lake at 10d. a ton . |
| 2 | Even after 1857 , when divorce came easier , the numbers involved were not large , averaging about 600 per year up to the start of the First World War . |
| 3 | When I had finished I turned and , sinking to one knee , dramatically handed the napkin full of gold back to the king . |
| 4 | He dropped a bank bag full of silver on to the shelf and Jinny stared , momentarily distracted . |
| 5 | A pistol is pointed at its head , because it has been warned that , in the next year , there will be a further review under which it is likely that it will again lose its statutory framework and be cast adrift into voluntarism along with the 22 other boards which have been dismantled in the past eight to nine years . |
| 6 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 7 | As Manuel and I sat drinking our rum punch outside the tavern in the midday sun , patting Sombro and discussing dogs as pets in our respective homelands , we both knew Sombro 's manhood would remain intact and that , as long as he was able to mooch down to the village , he would do so . |
| 8 | Modules , in this sense , do not have access to the contents of other modules and , in Carl Hewitt of MIT 's immortal words , ‘ modules should n't be able to dicker around with the insides of their neighbours ’ . |
| 9 | So read over your notes once you have made them , and edit them until they are as comprehensible as possible without reference back to the source work . |
| 10 | Although I must admit we were obliged to fork out for the tickets — a mere hundred quid each . |
| 11 | It was nice to home in on the one naive sentence in a book and quote it , making the author look like a prat . |
| 12 | She and Sheila had been very close at school up to the Fifth Form . |
| 13 | But certain words , like certain tunes , have a way of floating on the top of the mind , ready to jet out of the smallest leak in the sensibility . |