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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone . |
| 9 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 10 | He sent them all over the Islamic world to kill his enemies . ’ |
| 11 | They took me all over the Ursuline convent … and to meet the Reverend Mother — an old Irishwoman . |
| 12 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 13 | Edward gave them only until the following morning . |
| 14 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
| 15 | Make six small balls out of the red marzipan trimmings , each about the size of a pea , and press them gently into the red base , spacing evenly apart . |
| 16 | He was at peace with her while he reasoned and thought before speaking ; and the lengthening silence had neither weight nor tension , but lay between them gently like the comfortable warmth of a fire . |
| 17 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 18 | The air smelt dank and trapped despite the wind that poured past them , forcing them deeper into the solid darkness ahead . |
| 19 | If they are knitting successfully I leave them alone ; if they do n't knit successfully I select them manually to the holding position ( with the holding levers set to knit ) to help them knit . |
| 20 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 21 | Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room . |
| 22 | We would search for the defined pieces and then put them together in the proper order as suggested in the drawing . |
| 23 | This is not telling me much about the far side of the hill , he thought . |
| 24 | In these establishments , where one stays because there is no choice , the food is of a mediocrity , a predictability redeemed for me only by the good bread , the fresh eggs in the omelettes , the still relatively civilised presentation — which in Paris is becoming rare — the soup brought to table in a tureen , the hors d'oeuvre on the familiar , plain little white dishes , the salad in a simple glass bowl . |
| 25 | Positioning ourselves just inside the sheltering arm , outside which we could see an alarming amount of white water , we awaited his signal . |
| 26 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 27 | ‘ How nice to have someone here from the Foreign Office . |
| 28 | ( We shall not concern ourselves here with the exact formulation of the regularity : we shall merely note the evidence of its presence . ) |
| 29 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 30 | ‘ The businessman does n't want to go to different people to talk about things on the marketing front and someone else on the financial front . ’ |