Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.

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1 This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement .
2 The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C.
3 I just went on about the frogs in the flowers , and I never thought about his dreams .
4 Right for the pragmatists in the group , we want to do something practical learn from that .
5 They moved slowly through the crowds in the streets , glad of the obscuring numbers and the bustle and the noise , and the quivering , suppressed excitement , a thick veil behind which they walked , unnoticed and anonymous , towards the High Cross , and the long , gentle descent to the castle gate .
6 When the school closed , they kept the animals on for the toddlers in the local playgroups .
7 From there the sound radiates outwards through the holes in the front , giving a pure , sharp , sweet sound with amazing projection .
8 Occasionally , he would break the spell with a droll reminiscence , but for the most part he worked patiently and quietly , first on the symphony and then on the overture , where the work was even more quiet and concentrated , the string recitatives fashioned with a care most conductors would reserve only for the recitatives in the finale of Beethoven 's Ninth .
9 She rubbed on face cream , grimaced at her adorable lines and so together through the fields in the morning-o !
10 Cos how many things did I put in for the thingums in the draws in Asda .
11 The bogging down of the tanks in the mud reminds one of the immobilization of the helicopters of the master of Saddam in Tabas .
12 Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons .
13 ‘ Has anyone … ’ his voice seemed to emerge with difficulty and he cleared his throat , began again , ‘ Has anyone ever told you that you look very much like the women in the Pre-Raphaelite paintings ? ’
14 As noted above , the supervision exercised by the member state in which the head office is located is exclusive , and will be shared only with the authorities in the member states where business is conducted .
15 Even now , cycling idly along the lanes in the lee of the downs , it is possible to speculate about such things in a whimsical sort of way ; a rare tranquility which pervades everything brings about that state of mind .
16 It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork .
17 She had to chow down with the others in the common-room now she was mobile .
18 Zak said Nell was along with the passengers in the reception area , and that he wanted to go and see how things were shaping .
19 Had they come together with the antiques in the dining room from a larger house , a family home ?
20 The correct state of affairs is understood by reading the warranty together with the disclosures in the disclosure letter .
21 These cases are illustrated in Fig. 8.2 , together with the changes in the values of and t .
22 He rang off , and it was only minutes before they heard the chug of the engine of his jeep coming down from the hills in the still of the morning .
23 She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks .
24 The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows .
25 It speaks with an unmistakable inner city accent from the centre of a world everybody recognises even if it 's only from the headlines in The Sun — a world full of ‘ social problems ’ where all the culprits and the victims live — ‘ niggers ’ , ‘ hooligans ’ , ‘ old biddies ’ .
26 Dot remembered how sometimes there used to be singing down in the shelters in the dark .
27 He works in the hospitals , he goes down to the projects in the Bronx .
28 Organised by the same curator as the Bagatelle exhibition , Solange Auzias de Turenne , ‘ Moore Intime ’ features a life-size reconstruction of rooms from Moore 's house , ‘ Hoglands ’ , complete with contents down to the books in the same order as the artist left them in the bookcases , and items from his art collection which served as inspiration for his work .
29 There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups .
30 And everybody , down to the gremlins in the Photocopying Department , has been invited — no , make that commanded — to attend . ’
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