Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this the oil out of the drain . |
| 2 | Morton was already guiding the boat in towards the quay . |
| 3 | What he was planning would tie half the hospital up for the entire morning ! |
| 4 | 35–40 The setting up of the tabernacle |
| 5 | Uncle Knacker owned three fattening fields between two arterials half a mile down from the ‘ Red Lion ’ . |
| 6 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 7 | Half an hour out of the Bahamas , John and Paul are talking quietly together in the back seat of the plane . |
| 8 | It was half an inch out at the very least . |
| 9 | Such an effect along with the antinatriuretic effect of hyperinsulinaemia expands the extracellular compartment at the expense of intracellular dehydration . |
| 10 | Well I 'm sure the writing out of the agenda is , I , I 'm not just saying it , the agenda is not difficult and I do everything I can and I will write any letters you want . |
| 11 | And then I could add them together , or if that 's a bit awkward , what I could do is I could think of the hundred and one as a hundred add one , I can think of the seventeen as ten add seven , and then I multiply them this way and I multiply all the bits and then add all the bits up at the end . |
| 12 | The following morning the room looked as though an expedition had broken out in it , so we fought all the bits back into the sacs , smiled sweetly at the girl on reception and left . |
| 13 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 14 | All the way up on the train , she 'd been rehearsing what she 'd say to him . |
| 15 | The morning it was announced a vast audience arrived for Ramsey 's lecture and cheered him all the way up to the dais . |
| 16 | History suggests very strongly that class tells more often than not at this stage of the competition , although it is certainly not unknown for a Second Division side to go all the way up to the royal box and collect the trophy . |
| 17 | The solution was to strengthen the spire from within by inserting a single skin of new brickwork all the way up to the top , and bolting the brick and stone together with stainless steel pins that would be invisible from the ground . |
| 18 | Driving to Cairn Gorm is a bit of a cheat , since you drive all the way up to the car park at 640 metres , but then a sea-level start in the Cairngorms is a bit tricky unless you do n't mind parking the car in Aberdeen and walking in . |
| 19 | It was the last block in the street and the side wall was supported by a network of wooden scaffolding that stretched all the way up to the fifth floor . |
| 20 | Place your right hand on your partner 's right shoulder and slide your hand firmly all the way up to the neck . |
| 21 | It started about 500 feet above the ground and could have continued all the way up to the stratosphere , for all any one of us , peering hopefully upwards , could tell . |
| 22 | In came Flt Lt Marshall , red faced and furious , having taken his plane all the way up to the top of the cloud and all the way down again . |
| 23 | The new 1.8 is smooth and refined , all the way up to the 6200rpm limiter . |
| 24 | Do you know all the way up to the twelve-times table ? ’ |
| 25 | Talbot said : ‘ You came all the way up to the bridge , Jimmy , just to spread sweetness and light , your own special brand of Job 's comfort ? ’ |
| 26 | And they called me , and I crawled out , and there was this huge bear between me and my mother , very tall , sitting up the way they do , as tall as … all the way up to the light fitting . |
| 27 | ‘ That mad flood of a torrent runs beside the road all the way up to the top of the cordillera . ’ |
| 28 | If however , there was no open way remaining , then the rising main must have been brought all the way up to the top of the shaft . |
| 29 | No point in taking trouble with him ; no point in explaining that he 'd walked all the way up to the blooming rectory to set his mind at rest . |
| 30 | In a diagram : Verbs such as try evoke a movement towards the beginning of the infinitive event but do not reach it , whereas verbs like manage take one all the way up to the point of actual realization . |