Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [coord] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | secondly , pursuing untrustworthy promoters or record companies , if necessary through the courts and on to the enforcement of judgements , deters other business people from trying to get rich at the expense of musicians . |
| 2 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 4 | Suddenly , guns were fired again , and a group of pirates ran from the woods and on to the stockade . |
| 5 | Senna lost his front left wheel in the crash and both cars bounced over the kerbs and out of the race . |
| 6 | I hen , saying goodbye and wishing me well on my journey , she limped out of the house , down the steps and off down the drive . |
| 7 | He walked on past the house to the steps and down to the shore . |
| 8 | Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned . |
| 9 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
| 10 | The girl slipped away , not to the bushes but out through the curled iron gates to the earth lane that bordered the river . |
| 11 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 12 | The walls of Culwiniac Farm provided no real protection , being easily breached by the Argyll militia , after which ‘ Hangman ’ Hawley 's dragoons poured through the gaps and round behind the rebel right . |
| 13 | Martin was standing at the furthermost edge of the terrace , looking over the gardens and down to the sea . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , when you use a vibrato bar guitar , when you hit the strings really hard , a lot of the vibration gets transferred to the springs and back into the bar in a sort of flutter and I really do n't like that sound at all . |
| 15 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 16 | At the first change over it 's off with the shoes and on with the safety helmet . |
| 17 | Yeah , but I wan na buy , it 's the same size as your bedroom up to the wardrobes and up to the door . |
| 18 | If you have a combination skin , recognisable by an oily T-zone ( forehead , nose and chin ) and drier cheeks , apply moisturiser only where you need it ( ie over the cheeks and up to the temples ) . |
| 19 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
| 20 | They are tunnelling down into the sewers and up into the cavity walls and suspended ceilings . |
| 21 | I can still bring it to mind , with lines of people coming off the hillsides and on to the road . |
| 22 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
| 23 | It is a ten-minute ride to the road , first on a narrow path along the side of a field of parched maize and groundnuts , then down across the stream , up the smooth rounded granite and along the top , passing by my neighbour 's home , down round her fields under the trees and up to the tarred road . |
| 24 | Its usual course flows from above the lorry park , round the trees and down to the lower bridge which marks its normal width . |
| 25 | Past the trees and down towards the gate , out of the gate and into the clown 's car , through the town and then beside the ocean … |
| 26 | Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street . |
| 27 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 28 | I went down the stairs and out to the terrace . |
| 29 | Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door . |
| 30 | Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door . |