Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |
| 2 | Work by Peter Collett , an Oxford academic , has shown clearly that what goes on in front of the telly is , in practice , virtually anything . |
| 3 | And the Midland actually goes down to sort of the top of erm Cambridgeshire , |
| 4 | I would be not in the least surprised if that Wallaby performance goes down in history as the best given in the one year that the law lasts — surely , even though players and referees will work their way round some of the problems , it will only last the year . |
| 5 | It took some time for all the records to be checked , but it 's now agreed that IBM Corp 's full year net loss for 1992 of $4,965m goes down in history as the largest corporate loss on record , taking the baton from General Motors Corp . |
| 6 | After the initial booking-in , the man 's progression through the clinic differs only in detail from the woman 's . |
| 7 | In this situation , the downstream stage starts only after completion of the upstream stage , with no timing overlap between the two . |
| 8 | With their male love of machines , he and his friends ( especially rounded up for the occasion ) spent hours tinkering with it , heads down in worship under the bonnet . |
| 9 | Pick a target that lies directly in front of the cannon and which you can see . |
| 10 | So , to save you spending extravagant transfer fees on dodgy players , Foul Phil heads straight for goal with the round-up of the results … |
| 11 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
| 12 | ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world . |
| 13 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 14 | For that reason , Sir Adrian looks back with gratitude on the job-rotation policy that was an integral part of basic training when he joined the family firm after coming down from Cambridge in 1952 . |
| 15 | Of those connected with the BUF the experience of three individuals stands out in connection with the impact of the first World War . |
| 16 | The colour scheme is blue and white and the blue-and-white china Kate collects looks perfectly at home on the old white-painted dresser . |
| 17 | Bottom : Kate 's collection of blue and white china looks perfectly at home on the country-style white dresser |
| 18 | Gerald Kaufman , the committee 's chairman , emotes risibly on behalf of the consumer , then issues a report fraught with absurdities . |
| 19 | BAND OF GOLD SUPER Sally Gunnell stands proudly on top of the winner 's rostrum in Barcelona last night and gives her treasured gold medal a big kiss . |
| 20 | Bob Noorduyn stands proudly in front of the recently restored UC–46A Norseman CF–DRD , on the day of the official opening of Norseman Park in the township of Red Lake , Ontario . |
| 21 | He looks forward with impatience to the time when he will be sent to Siberia ; his martyrdom ends with the beginning of his punishment " . |
| 22 | Consider dispute points above in relation to the consideration calculation . |
| 23 | Sylvestra le Touzel , his forbidding English wife , is in stark contrast to the Celtic sexiness of Lady Mortimer ( Jane Gurnett ) , who gabbles away in Welsh under the paternal gaze of Bernard Kaye 's Glendower , the crashing bore . |
| 24 | Clause 15 of the partnership agreement stated : " in the event of a partnership being [ so determined ] the salaried partner undertakes not to practice within the practice area … " , the practice area being defined . |
| 25 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 26 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 27 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 28 | Water passes up through gravel to the media . |
| 29 | If it spins out of control in the first half of the period , the batteries could run down and put it beyond recovery , says Alan Harris , a ROSAT physicist based in Munich . |
| 30 | He says apart from drill in the sense of head-counts , turn your back to the blast area and sitting on the ground covering your eyes and so on — none whatsoever . |