Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj -er] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 2 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 3 | He went down through the lower hall to the kitchen , drank some water . |
| 4 | Then he staggered off the pavement into the street , throwing a glance down towards the brighter lights at the junction . |
| 5 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 6 | GM schools will be able to change their character if that is what parents clearly want and the change fits in with the wider needs of the local area . |
| 7 | ‘ No doubt , ’ said Mr Harold Brooks-Baker of Burke 's , ‘ it fits in with the freer ways of today but some feel that freedom is an over-used word . |
| 8 | A similar but more conventionally coloured filter , model 2207 , is still available in Eheim 's familiar green livery , along with the larger models in their range . |
| 9 | In this chapter , I aim to narrow the area of discussion down from the larger field of objectification as a process to the question of the nature of the object per se . |
| 10 | Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs , chaired by a genial buffer named George Mackie ( later Lord Mackie of Benshie ) , whose deliberations were too often bogged down in the drearier aspects of Liberal Party policy . |
| 11 | Swiftly and almost silently she ran along in the darker shadows beneath the gable to the granary and from there to the dovecot . |
| 12 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 13 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was firmer against the dollar , closing at one dollar point nine five three five , but it closed fractionally down on the stronger Mark at two Deutschmarks point nine three three one . |
| 14 | Deals concluded in the first quarter averaged 4.3 per cent , slightly down on the earlier estimate of 4.5 per cent , but closer to the current four per cent inflation rate . |
| 15 | Then Handlebar 's cock suddenly jumped into the air , flew the distance that separated it from its rival and came down on the darker bird with its neck arched and talons open . |
| 16 | All settings up to about 8 ( out of 10 ) on the master volume elicit a clear , punchy tone , right down to the lower notes on my 5-string , and live it proved well able to compete with two rawk'n'rawl guitar players and a loud drum kit on an R&B pub gig . |
| 17 | The two men combed the moors , squelching through the soggy ground until they were satisfied that all the sheep had been rounded up and brought down to the lower pastures to safety . |
| 18 | And that meant taking a trip down to the lower end of the Bayswater Road . |
| 19 | The severe drop down to the lower parts of the garden means it is sensible to provide a physical barrier and this has been cleverly achieved with a seat and barbecue that matches the sweep of the terrace itself . |
| 20 | But anyway , this is a very amusing film , but , but the idea of mission control is the concept of the ego , where it is portrayed in a very amusing way in this film by Woody Allen , that the consciousness , Woody Allen 's consciousness , is portrayed as mission control at Houston erm and er erm it , that particular scene ends with er when er control erm mission control sends a message down to the lower parts of the body , I wo n't mention which , says we 're going around again boys , and they think oh my God they 're very amusing . |
| 21 | The industrial revolution and the creation of parks around the country houses have taken us down to the later years of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | New Level , track record holder at Sunderland and Brough Park , clocked a respectable 29.19 sec ( -10 ) winning his heat by 1 5 lengths , while Pond Pavarotti only just scraped through in the faster time of 29.15 , beaten 6 9 lengths by another North-East dog , Capricorn Note , which was also trained until recently by Williams . |
| 23 | The new pseudo-science of ‘ counselling ’ , which seems to have taken over from the greater absurdity of analysis , may not be as destructive as its predecessor but it , too , has many of the characteristics of an enclosed cult like the Plymouth Brethren or the Moonies . |
| 24 | At one extreme underthrusting is seen as proceeding for up to 1500 km at the base of the continental crust through the peeling off of the lower part of the lithosphere of the Eurasian Plate ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) . |
| 25 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 26 | Although Simmel is quoted , there is none of the subtlety of his analysis of the necessary contradictions of industrial society , and the emphasis on goals of happy homes and cohesive families appears cut off from the wider realms of social action . |
| 27 | The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body . |
| 28 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 29 | Difficult to get the old fire up for the Greater Glory of flag , Empire and Prime Minister Ian Paisley , but hearth , home and humping still meant something in this godrotten hellhole khazipit of a world . |
| 30 | By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain . |