Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further exploration with von Wissmann in 1939 took him from Aden , through the almost unknown highlands to the north-east as far as the Wadi Jirdan and on into Hadhramaut , the results appearing in his Aden to the Hadhramaut ( 1947 ) . |
| 2 | I checked to see if Armstrong was still there and then I risked a crouching run as far as the Sierra 's tail lights . |
| 3 | As to my husband , he does what he is told as ever and I have faced the truth long ago that the Brownings are more important to him than I am . |
| 4 | Wednesday 12 February 1800 was a commonplace day as far as the Pearmans were concerned . |
| 5 | It was the witching hour of midnight back home but the England nightmare had only just begun . |
| 6 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 7 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
| 8 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 9 | Although certain other lines had their own Royal vehicles and carried our own and foreign Royalty more frequently than the LNWR , it was in the main the Wolverton LNWR and later LMSR train that carried the Royal family on long railway journeys . |
| 10 | ‘ What you have here is a traditional account of Masai origins , but also mixed with the arrival of this woman — I am assuming , although it is not my business , the ethnographer , Claude Cohn-Casson — yes , okay , well , there was an incident during the war , a famous incident as far as the Masai is concerned , when a British official was killed in a very small dispute about cattle . |
| 11 | Gregory learnt from his Roman sources that Chlodio captured Cambrai , and occupied territory as far as the Somme . |
| 12 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 13 | I had three children , a home to run … and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State 's duty so far as the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge are concerned , is only to ‘ consult . ’ |
| 15 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 16 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 17 | By the time her mother rose in an elegant flourish of Pucci and swept her towards the door in that ostentatiously motherly way she had , Jo was in a sulk as deep as the Pacific Trench . |
| 18 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |