Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 At eight o'clock you emerge from the café where you have had your breakfast coffee and croissant .
2 There were few enough who came to the camps with their heads erect , who stood their ground in the snow and fielded the threat of the gun barrels and dogs ' mouths .
3 When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress .
4 Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’
5 the rest of it 's like this here he runs into the water and he 's into the water like Him and Bobby used
6 At about 2 am I fumbled across the bedside table for my bronchodilator .
7 At 10 o'clock I hobbled around the kennels while the kennel girl watched Toby .
8 At six o'clock I went to the room with my name on the desk , donned a white coat , and started work .
9 I do n't know like , some of it 's just real hard , most of it 's just easy anyway it goes in the big diddly diddly diddly bit at the end , just
10 The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy .
11 That once I got inside the house and had the dresses and the carriages and everything this mill provides , I would n't be able to see you any more . ’
12 Now , in terms of naming these always you go for the longest straight shape that you can , by straight straight really is in inverted commas what we should really say the longest continuous chain that you can find in other words , you 'd have to go back on yourself .
13 At the moment it 's pointing at this one two three directory , back-slash P back-slash one two three Now you point at the root directory
14 He tries to manufacture the shot with the 5 , but it does n't quite come off , and sure enough he goes on the Road .
15 Towards 4 o'clock we returned to the station to catch our train , which was to be hauled by a famous locomotive — ‘ Evening Star ’ .
16 Sometime after 2500 BC there arose on the Mediterranean island of Crete a civilization that was , for the time , extremely advanced .
17 Nobody had been quite sure either what to make of the stuffed animal heads on the wall , and the large crocodile sprawled across one of the floors .
18 Then when they 're tough enough they go to the greenhouse .
19 On Tuesday 10 March at 10.30 a.m. we trooped into the Cabinet room at Number 10 to be given a summary of that afternoon 's Budget .
20 At five o'clock she returned to the theatre and crept up the stairs to the dressing-room .
21 At nine o'clock he drove to the gas station two blocks south of the hotel .
22 A few minutes after twelve o'clock I reported to the police station .
23 The last time that that young person went into secure accommodation in Middlesbrough , he went in through the front door at 3.30 pm , and at 5.30 pm he disappeared out the back door and stole a car to make his escape .
24 He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate .
25 and he was soaked , he actually had tried first then he went round the back , the back door was closed so he tried to take shelter under the oil tank
26 Oh if that 's one 's five then they go to the next on e after that , which is seven .
27 you 'd have this effect , see there 's your wall and the , that then you pin up the middle like that
28 Before washing we first cleaned any food residue using earth , pine needles or grass ; utensils were pushed into the earth until they were clean then we washed in the soapy water ; rinsed , then dipped into a pot of boiling water to sterilize .
29 Arriving at the crag at 11.00 a.m. he abseiled down the walls right of Begozi , placed a belay and several bolts and , wire brush in hand , climbed back out again to create Burning Rubber Necklace ( F6b+ ) .
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