Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 2 | ‘ Make foreign things work for China ’ , ran one slogan but it recognised that ‘ flies and pests ’ would come in through the open door as well as fresh air to revitalise the stuffy atmosphere in China . |
| 3 | She knew it would be tantamount to suicide to try to go in through the open doorway so she made her way cautiously around the side of the building , careful to duck low enough under the shattered windows to avoid detection . |
| 4 | ‘ I said if we did n't win this time we 'd abolish the b + + + + + + , ’ says Dixon , digging in for the first time since his Army days . |
| 5 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 6 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 7 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 8 | Also Simon is one of my best mates and I knew he 'd buckle down with the right team if he was in with a chance of winning . ’ |
| 9 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 10 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 11 | The court file will record that setting down within the prescribed period if it takes place . |
| 12 | Turning inbound the VOR indicator needle will roll in from the same side as you . |
| 13 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 14 | In 1889 Schnadhorst 's own candidature in Newcastle under Lyme was approved but he stood down in the following year because of ill health . |
| 15 | Cos we had other people concerned with the stores down in the head office as well , the buyers and . |
| 16 | In the early 1900s the initiative was with those lower down in the governing hierarchy than Lugard , and being the men they were , they took it . |
| 17 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 18 | I had just checked into the hotel and come down to the sunken terrace when I saw armed men running in a crouched position by the swimming pool . |
| 19 | On the other side of the road the cobbled slopes of West Brook Place rushed down to the walled beck before the land swept up again , steep and thickly wooded , to the terraces of Old Ashfield . |
| 20 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 21 | Saturday night socialising is down to the bare minimum since the children arrived . |
| 22 | He stood up and walked down to the deep end as he spoke , then he dived in , surfacing at least halfway down the pool , then covering several more lengths in a leisurely crawl . |
| 23 | The company is also predicting European prices will come down to the same level as in the US . |
| 24 | the people that have left are sort of in the recession and that now , there 's all the really big business people and that that have come down to the same level as everybody else . |
| 25 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 26 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
| 27 | He walked down to the next floor where two men sat working at desks facing each other . |
| 28 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 29 | The judge accepted that he at least attempted to put to her that it was an extremely onerous document and made her liable down to the last penny if Eratex Ltd. failed . |
| 30 | Leeman plugged away with constant strikes and both his colleagues joined in on the 17th end when continued Brackley accuracy brought the game to a premature conclusion . |