Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it 's all there , complete with toilet paper , which you use and then deftly wind back on to the roll . |
| 2 | He was rather looked down on by the Trebetherick set . |
| 3 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 4 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 5 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 6 | ‘ Not much wandering off above in the convent . ’ |
| 7 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 8 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Periodically the ship had literally sailed up on to the tug , ramming her bows against the stern , and finally the towing hawser had ripped out the capstan to which it was fastened . |
| 10 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 11 | Perhaps going back again to the quality of life , was it a a release valve for the frustration of the places ? |
| 12 | Erm , well , at the moment I 'm involved in a a big project , new benefits claims , erm , and so if the new claims system could echo which priorities in that department , erm , and it looks like it will be long drawn out eventually at the end of next year , nationwide and effectively it 's a English processing system whereby terms coming in and they 're scanned and you can see images on a screen , so there 's gon na be no calls , what my , what my role in this is , gon na be to get the branches to accept the system . |
| 13 | Thus far The Buddha of Suburbia is autobiographical : thereafter Karim and Hanif go their separate ways , only getting back on to the same tracks when they both flee north of the river to west London . |
| 14 | Frederick was apparently brought up there with the daughter , Hester , of the new marriage , but he ran away to sea . |
| 15 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 16 | This form of self-help obviously squares up well with the close-knit group contacts of a minority community ; moreover , West Indians have been prominent in the credit union movement in this country ( largely because credit unions are an important source of credit in the West Indies ) . |
| 17 | but they only go over once in the Grand National . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 19 | Round and round she went , just scared enough to hold on tight to the pole , the wind blowing back her spread of straight golden hair . |
| 20 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 21 | Then Edgley found an unplayable lie off the tee ; James could only hack out on to the fairway and Dorset lost the hole to a five . |
| 22 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 23 | Mansell 's Williams partner Riccardo Patrese had shown there were no team orders by nearly shoving him into the barriers at the start and leading by 40 seconds until he carelessly spun off halfway through the race . |
| 24 | Why , after two years , should he suddenly zero in out of the blue ? |
| 25 | But the chandelier declined to bear his weight and instead of swinging , he merely sat down heavily on the floor in a hail of diamonds and plaster . |
| 26 | Some , like Lucie , were confident that Death had long since moved on out of the village . |
| 27 | Just lived up there in the east wing and poured out all this stuff about fairies . |
| 28 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 29 | And while we were talking about Brighton ( away back up there in the message ) , god is nt Brightons kit crap ? |
| 30 | This means tilting the rear mortise to line up with the front leg , which will mean in turn that the side rail will not line up exactly with the back leg . |