Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |
| 2 | Seaweed and my parents back from the dead and objects come alive and sort of leer at me and sometimes I joyfully feel as if I 'm going to sink to the bottom of the ocean forever , but I wake up and then I do n't know what 's real . |
| 3 | ‘ That I 'm able to offer specially designed , hand-painted tiling lifts my kitchens out of the ordinary and helps me to market them . |
| 4 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 5 | I put my things down on the big table and sat down , shrugging . |
| 6 | I turned from my contemplation of the inclement evening and eased my buttocks on to the warm radiator beneath the window . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Both Greene and Cloke were jeered as they passed the post and cries of ‘ cheats ’ greeted them as they rode their mounts back to the unsaddling enclosure and were hauled before the stewards . |
| 9 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |
| 10 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 11 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 12 | The letter I saw which alerted er , users and their carers about these items on the agenda , seem to be an indication for them to , to express their opinions back through the Social Services Department , now if that 's consultation , then the process has started . |
| 13 | The locals often plant their vegetables out among the olive groves and vineyards and find all flourish happily together in the rich volcanic soil . |
| 14 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 15 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 16 | The Metropolitan Line grew fast in the 1860S and 1870S , the District Line joined it and it spread its branches out into the open countryside to the north-west of London . |
| 17 | Shelley sipped her coffee , then put the mug down and swung her legs on to the cool tiled floor . |
| 18 | Villa had their tails up in the second half and Atkinson and Staunton both had chances to increase their lead . |
| 19 | However , once these new languages and varieties had become established in the Caribbean , the same phenomenon of migration took their speakers back to the original " homeland " of the lexifier language , English . |
| 20 | With a controlled distributor system , the spirits range and its own TV airtime , PTGI — and Guinness in Indonesia — is moving on still further from its origins back in the 1970s . |
| 21 | These associations can often trace their origins back to the nineteenth century when they were , under different names , primarily concerned with giving relief in cash and kind to families in distress . |
| 22 | Also , both the vicarage and Rectory farm can trace their origins back to the 1500's . |
| 23 | Miranda , in black linen shorts and halter top , lay with her feet up on the terracotta-coloured sofa , enjoying her idleness . |
| 24 | And Vasilissa stuck her feet out on the other side . |
| 25 | Nenna sat moving her feet about inside the spacious wellingtons . |
| 26 | An unpaid tax bill instilled fears into the companies who dealt with Red Rhino and everyone slapped their bills in at the same time . |
| 27 | When a melt of any kind is cooled rapidly , it does not have time to sort its atoms out into the ordered atomic structures of mineral crystals . |
| 28 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 29 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 30 | Tabitha sat up fast , jerking her hips back from the snarling Perk . |