Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 2 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 3 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 4 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 5 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 6 | The French troops in Saudi Arabia moved up to Hafar al-Batin , some 100 km from the Kuwaiti border , placing them effectively in the front line . |
| 7 | He reached beneath the saddle and dipped his fingers in the shelf of scented unguents , then began to smear them delicately about the tiny hole , pushing inward , the unguents working their magic spell , making the muscles relax . |
| 8 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 9 | Is the Secretary of State aware that his scandalous decision will be greeted by outrage not only in Aberdeen and the surrounding area by everyone connected with the medical and caring professions but by everyone right across the political spectrum in the north-east of Scotland , including the hapless Marcus Humphrey ? |
| 10 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 11 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 12 | He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone . |
| 13 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 14 | Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles : |
| 15 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 16 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 17 | The cultural value of all these activities was thought to be negligible but at least some useful qualities were being inculcated and above all their commercial basis bound them in to the mainstream organization and values of middle-class society . |
| 18 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 19 | ‘ We shall know whether they sink or swim by putting them in at the deep end , and I have every confidence that they will all do well . |
| 20 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 21 | Or drop them in at the Northern Echo offices in Northallerton and Darlington . |
| 22 | There was an arched cartway into the yard , and a narrow wicket let them in through the thick oak portal to the cobbled court , ringed round with stables and storehouses . |
| 23 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 24 | I filled up cardboard boxes with its contents and took them down to the local charity shop . |
| 25 | The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation . |
| 26 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 27 | Then he led them down into the bloody cloud again . |
| 28 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 29 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 30 | Make the patchwork on the shells by spreading the glue over a small area , laying on scraps of cloth and pressing them down with the damp cloth . |