Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 2 | All settings up to about 8 ( out of 10 ) on the master volume elicit a clear , punchy tone , right down to the lower notes on my 5-string , and live it proved well able to compete with two rawk'n'rawl guitar players and a loud drum kit on an R&B pub gig . |
| 3 | Sources close to Bel say the tiny tot looks just like mom … right down to the dark sunglasses . |
| 4 | His underwear will be perfectly all right in with the other clothes . |
| 5 | From there the road was downhill , so we were able to coast noiselessly down into the sleeping suburbs , then dismount and push the bike into the city centre . |
| 6 | Putting his hands on her shoulders , he drew them slowly down over the full curves , feeling , weighing , drawing a fingertip across the tightening nipples . |
| 7 | The thinning veil of cloud eddied in a gust of wind , and suddenly we were below it , looking down on to the flat roofs of a town spread out in a broad valley of rain-washed green . |
| 8 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |
| 9 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
| 10 | The doctor looked down on to the younger children 's heads and his teeth clamped down even harder on his cigar . |
| 11 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 12 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 13 | So again we see a split in the er in in in amongst the great powers . |
| 14 | We understand that was de-mob happy for quite some time and erm I know he 's been disappointed recently with the Tories losing control of the local Council down down in the happy glades down South but the pink gin and pink knickers approach of Councillor is becoming a joke . |
| 15 | It climbs steeply through trees , into quiet hillside streets from which little lanes and stairways drop suddenly down into the blue distances of the city . |
| 16 | she never finished her explanations of formulae because she used to stop halfway through for the cleverest girls to give the answer . |
| 17 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 18 | They include Another Coral , 8lb better off for the seven lengths he was beaten by Tipping Tim in the Mackeson , Martin Pipe 's Milford Quay , the progressive Sacre d'Or and the 1989 Champion Hurdler Beech Road . |
| 19 | The existence in the benefit system to which they have access of a generous £10 weekly disregard on income from a top-up loan means that many students in those vulnerable groups will be better off under the new arrangements . |
| 20 | Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ? |
| 21 | Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about . |
| 22 | The above arguments lead to the conclusion that the usual initial data for colliding plane waves leads to a unique solution only up to the topological singularities and in regions II and III , and to the ‘ focusing ’ singularity in the interaction region . |
| 23 | Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " . |
| 24 | Keeping clear and concise notes of what you have read enables you to organise your essay without having to refer constantly back to the original sources . |
| 25 | So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO . |
| 26 | There 's that drinks thing where you sit all round on the high stalls you know |
| 27 | ‘ There is very much an emphasis on teamwork in the company , and that extends right through to the professional advisers . |
| 28 | Some nativist elements in the host community were critical of what they saw as an assault on local culture by alien Jewish values and it was this ethnocentric attitude to change , when allied to the existence of genuine social grievances , which was to make some parts of the East End a fertile reception area for racial populist and anti-immigrant movements right through from the British Brothers League in 1900 , the BUF from 1936 to 1940 , the League of Ex-Servicemen and the Union Movement in the 1940s , to the National Front in the 1970s . |
| 29 | A smaller patch of lesser quality vines extends southwards on to the north-east-facing slopes of Mont Aimé . |
| 30 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |