Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got you down as here for the last three . |
| 2 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 3 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's the Watts 's house down by there near the public bar . ’ |
| 5 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |
| 6 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 7 | The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted . |
| 8 | Twelve of the big entry of 40 cue off at 11am in the preliminary round as follows : Steve Blundell ( Hindley ) v David Pye ( Prescot ) ; John Hughes ( Widnes ) v Peter Sheehan ( Widnes ) ; Paul Mather ( Wigan ) v 15 year old Phil Johnson ( Widnes ) , Arthur Johnson ( Widnes ) v Will Jerram ( Southport ) ; Nigel Warren ( Liverpool ) v Denis Marr ( Liverpool ) and Brendan Carroll Birkenhead ) v Trevor Gent ( Widnes ) . |
| 9 | The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell . |
| 10 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 11 | This is another of those modern Western diseases that seems to have mushroomed up from nowhere over the past fifty years . |
| 12 | I mean , let's face it , I 'm in a no-win Situation , and quite honestly , I 'm so stuffed up to here with the whole Stupid mess that , I can tell you , I 've just Got a good mind to take the quick way out . |
| 13 | During the 1880s and 1890s , the miller was Francis William Giles , by 1914 it was in the hands of James Faulks and between 1927 up to shortly before the Second World War , William George Perry . |
| 14 | For non-working spouses , sufficient units can be encashed each tax year to bring total income up to just below the annual allowance . |
| 15 | MICKY STEWART , the England manager , gave his son , Alec , a gruelling introduction to cricket on the Indian sub-continent when he put the Surrey wicketkeeper-batsmen — along with the rest of the 14-man England squad - through a three-and-a-half hour training session in temperatures of up to 100F at the National Stadium in Delhi yesterday . |
| 16 | Above all , there was disappointment at Hitler 's remarks that he had made full provision for the coming winter — the logical conclusion being drawn ‘ that the struggle in the east , in contrast to the hopes entertained up to now by the overwhelming majority of the population , can not be ended before the next winter ’ . |
| 17 | And then it did n't start up till then till the second one came the Joseph Jo er The second one was John it was christened . |
| 18 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 19 | No , I hold on in there till the last moment . |
| 20 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , come on ; let's get out of here before the happy couple arrive . |
| 22 | ‘ We got a real tight schedule if we 're going to make it out of here before the Big Bang . ’ |
| 23 | We 've got the right sort of computer technology to implement these erm we can move out from there into the neural network world . |
| 24 | Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species . |
| 25 | Soviet initiatives for the Mediterranean in the guise of denuclearisation or the creation of zones of peace date back at least to the Soviet ‘ Draft Declaration on Non-Intervention in the Middle East ’ presented in February 1957 . |
| 26 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 27 | In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage . |
| 28 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 29 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 30 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |