Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 2 | As one of the parents in the interviews described later says , ‘ When they say , you 're the experts , parents are experts , what they really mean is — you get on with that little bit over there , and we 'll get on with the really important stuff over here . ’ |
| 3 | They worry also about the possibility that war could spill out into the so-far peaceful bits of the Balkan neighbourhood ( see below ) . |
| 4 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 5 | But when we were young , she and I used to get up to the most dreadful pranks . ’ |
| 6 | The sybarites who wanted the hot water bath or the hot air bath would pass through into the slightly heated room one stage farther in , and undress there , then go on in to whichever they fancied . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But he knew his chief 's dislike of unnecessary chat , and strapped as they were side by side in uncomfortably close proximity in the Enstrom F28 , he decided that the Chevisham case would get off to the most propitious start by a policy of disciplined silence . |
| 9 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 10 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 11 | Likewise , the distinctive black and yellow ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius will crawl in beside the very same moth caterpillars that it may later parasitise with its eggs . |
| 12 | Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge , and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area . |
| 13 | Perched on the mountain close to the main square of Ravello , guests here can look out over the highly productive vineyards and dazzling blue sea . |
| 14 | Once you can carve gybe and water start with ease , you can move on to the more advanced funboard skills . |
| 15 | Thankfully the old saw that ‘ you ca n't call yourselves world champions until you 've beaten the Boks ’ has been laid to rest and now , politics allowing , the South African game can get on with the long overdue task of putting its own house — in particular its over-powerful domestic unions — in order . |