Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Maybe now they 've proved they 've got ‘ the skills to pay the bills ’ they can get down to the serious shit they 're obviously capable of . |
| 32 | She took several deep breaths , hoping he would put the sudden bright colour in her cheeks down to the hot coffee she had just swallowed . |
| 33 | When Ruth went down to the lower deck it was a hive of activity , with the strangest thing she had so far seen taking place . |
| 34 | Its usual course flows from above the lorry park , round the trees and down to the lower bridge which marks its normal width . |
| 35 | Essentially it comes down to the age-old question which has tormented the rich as much as the fate of their souls : how do you have your cake and eat it ? |
| 36 | He dismissed the subject from his mind and decided to go down to the tiny lunchroom he ran for his employees , to get a cup of coffee . |
| 37 | We had returned our robes to Messrs Ede & Ravenscroft and followed her down to the huge marquee which had been erected opposite University House . |
| 38 | She walked down to the open market itself . |
| 39 | For one moment he hesitated , provoking her to give in to the gentle malice which settled inside her . |
| 40 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 41 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
| 42 | To get in on the educational field one must parrot the latest jargon even if it is rejected by ‘ one ’ . |
| 43 | He sat down beside the uniformed girl who introduced herself as Elsa from Hamburg . |
| 44 | Down at the far end someone has fitted a neon sign , but the rest of the sites are anonymous in the night . |
| 45 | Trotting a bait down at the same depth you have seen them turning very often pays off with a fish or two . |
| 46 | As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen . |
| 47 | The purpose of that is to remove from Mr Jewitt at Hambleton and Mr Earle at Richmondshire and any others erm who just do n't want this kind of pressure brought upon them , er by putting criteria in at the strategic scale you could derive that criteria and maybe even name local authority areas to make to protect those who do not want this feature . |
| 48 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 49 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 50 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 51 | Leila had planned to keep it rather a subdued affair , but another natro group happened along at the small site they were using and livened things up a little . |
| 52 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 53 | Nottinghamshire originally sought a prohibited steps order to keep the perpetrator away from the family home , but was turned down by the High Court which said it had no option other than to make a residence order . |
| 54 | Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula . |
| 55 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 56 | When the trees are coated in ice the bird is unable to break through for the life-sustaining food which it so desperately needs . |
| 57 | If you move through into the next room you 'll find the area you 're to work . |
| 58 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 59 | The first one will keep the rope taut as you move offstage and run round the back and take over from the second helper who has been keeping the ‘ load ’ end taut . |
| 60 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |