Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 2 | Someone carried out to the nine men a tray of bottled beer and the spell broke . |
| 3 | Someone came out of The Two Pheasants and latched the door back to the wall hospitably . |
| 4 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 5 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 6 | He went through a brief period of chatting to the customers down at the bank about how he had seen someone come back from the dead . |
| 7 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 8 | nothing came out of the last committee meeting to a definite , this is definite this . |
| 9 | But one way or another , somebody came up with the full table d'hôte : safe havens , roadnames and the paperwork to back them up . |
| 10 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
| 11 | A number of players had been tried , but none came up to the subtle demands of the job . |
| 12 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
| 13 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 14 | In the thick of a stubborn recession , his Government portfolio is a tricky one to carry around on the General Election campaign . |
| 15 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 16 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 17 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 18 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 19 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 20 | As we can see , though , new concerns with how writing interacts with history are causing us to abandon the idea of literary study as something caught up with the transcendental . |
| 21 | Religious Observance holds a very special place in Catholic schools , it is not something added on to the Religious Education component , it is the expression of commitment to one 's faith , it brings reality to theory , it is the vehicle through which faith is deepened . |
| 22 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 23 | There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man . |
| 24 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 25 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 26 | Yet no one walked out of the big top , there were no fundamentalist pickets outside , no attempts to disrupt the service . |
| 27 | I 'm the one running around in the fockin' rain ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 29 | The latter is either a private network , or one set up by the local authority in your area which operates an alarm system at a central control point . |
| 30 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |