Example sentences of "[adv] of the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It left him with a two-over par total of 290 , ahead only of the equally out-of-form Jose-Maria Olazabal ( 292 ) of the five Europeans who had survived the 36-hole cut . |
| 2 | John Gordon , representative for Lancashire and Cheshire , was also presented with a cheque as runner up of the closely fought contest narrowly beating Robin Saunders , Alan Calver and James Thomas . |
| 3 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 4 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 5 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 6 | John Swain , describing returning to Phnom Penh after a thirteen- year absence , wrote wistfully of the now vanished maisons flottantes ( floating brothels ) and the old Café de Paris cyclo-girls who would coo ‘ Aller avec vous ce soir , Monsieur ’ . |
| 7 | The Masses were held at Christmas , and at Scone instead of the newly finished cathedral at Birsay , for the King did not go to Orkney that winter . |
| 8 | While other drivers equipped with four-wheel traction , including early leader Kenny Colbert and John Gilleece , who led the championship going into the Carlow event , skated off the road , Greer kept the Manta under control and ahead of the fast recovering Nolan to win by 15 seconds . |