Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
| 2 | Businessmen working away from home frequently describe the tension on their return when their partners , who have been shut in with the children all week , suggest going out for dinner . |
| 3 | • After serving 18 months in the wilderness as punishment for running Michael Heseltine 's leadership challenge , East Hampshire MP Michael Mates was welcomed in from the cold this week when he was given a ministerial post by the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | At first , when I put the phone down in the darkness that evening and returned to my pupil in the study , I was not too worried . |
| 5 | So and I went down in the pool this morning |
| 6 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 7 | What are you hoping to get down on the list this month ? |
| 8 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 9 | Take 'em along Witchball Street , Tom , and down to the quay that way . |
| 10 | He went to dwell on the ‘ residential heights ’ and walked down to the mill each day . |
| 11 | The two girls went down to the village that morning to secure a piece of board and some paint . |
| 12 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 13 | ‘ Come down to the stables some time . |
| 14 | Right so if we get down to the hospital this afternoon |
| 15 | When you going down to the hospital this afternoon or tonight ? |
| 16 | I was really depressed at the thought of coming in to the office this morning . |
| 17 | So they 're actually charging people a little bit more to get in to the pantomime this year . |
| 18 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 19 | Sarah was down at the nick this morning . ’ |
| 20 | We heard he was down at the station this morning . |
| 21 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 22 | She can send a note over to the pit any time . |
| 23 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 24 | NURSES from South Tees are jetting off to the U.S. this month to find out about baby care , American style . |
| 25 | Charlotte and Steve are off to the States this morning , skiing , and Verity — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The Irish way is to go back to some shebeen and carry on with the whisky all night long , ’ she replied . |
| 27 | The ladder could have been put up against the wall any time of night — ’ |
| 28 | Though he has yet to finish on a winning side — Great Britain lost both tests and were defeated 8-O at Leigh — & name is confident the side will come up with the goods this time . |
| 29 | The son of Rainbow Quest was always up with the leaders that day , clearly enjoying himself on the easy ground and eventually racing three and a half lengths clear . |
| 30 | And hang them up in the cellar all night . |