Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is passing the market-makers ' responsibility on to the companies ' own stockbrokers , who will match buyers to sellers . |
| 2 | They laid the Padre down at the Collector 's side as instructed and arranged his limbs in a suitable position of repose . |
| 3 | FACTORY workers fed-up with secretary Carolyn Bullock 's dodgy parking hoisted her car on to the firm 's roof with a crane . |
| 4 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 5 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 6 | Seated on one stool by the wall of the hut , with her foot resting on another , Paige stared gloomily at Travis 's figure down by the water 's edge . |
| 7 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |
| 8 | Together they watched the setting up of the town 's first fish and chip shop , they saw the decline of Mr Healy in the hotel and stood side by side on the day that he was taken to the sanatorium . |
| 9 | Reflector boards shone light up into the subjects ' faces to refine the modelling ( reflections give a certain hooded look to the eyes in the portrait here ) . |
| 10 | The hardest part about expanding will be finding pub stock up to the Nicholson 's standards . |
| 11 | United 's luck changed then as Martin went off with an ankle injury , to be followed a few minutes later by Stoke defender Chris Hemming , a clattering tackle on Derning brought the red card out of the referee 's pocket and boos for Hemming . |
| 12 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 13 | There were fierce fights along the way — particularly in the House of Lords — but the concession on pensions took much of the wind out of the Opposition 's sails . |
| 14 | Over the medium term , however , the new Teachers ' Pay Review Body is likely to make teaching markedly better paid — nearly half of all secondary school teachers now earn more than £20,000 a year — which will take much wind out of the NUT 's sails . |
| 15 | But he must do more to suppress the air of lawlessness that now abounds ( which would incidentally take the wind out of the Congress 's sails ) and persuade people that paying taxes is a social virtue ( which would then help balance Russia 's books ) . |
| 16 | It 's it 's part of a programme , it helps get blood back to the hair fo We 've all got all the hair follicles there , what we have n't got is the capillary network feeding those hair follicles . |
| 17 | Suddenly he reached across and snatched the photograph out of the Woman 's hand , ripping it in half and dropping the pieces on the floor . |
| 18 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 19 | The growth in demand for rapid response in the U.S.A. continues to have the effect of transferring stock out of the retailers ' balance sheets and into those of the manufacturers , a situation aggravated this year by relatively weak fourth quarter sales . |
| 20 | Even if Mr Takeshita drives the budget through in the opposition 's absence , he will still need time for some further bills . |
| 21 | They reckon that dubbing French dialogue on to the kids ' favourite soaps will keep them switched on in class . |
| 22 | When piling the buttercream on to the teddy 's body , try to mound it up quite high to give him a tubby appearance . |
| 23 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 24 | The appalled producer took refuge in the unions and his insurance company , and Fred and Arthur composed their faces into the necessary combination of artistic bloody-mindedness and guestly sympathy to scotch the project without actually seeming to throw their good lunch back into the producer 's face . |
| 25 | He woke First Man and made him eat , too and ‘ Adam ’ threw the apple core out over the crowd 's heads . |
| 26 | There were a few people about now : walking their dogs , jogging in tracksuits along the firm sand out by the water 's edge . |
| 27 | The legend must go — but at the same time we must be careful not to let the queen out with the asses ' milk . |
| 28 | In Clouden snatching a basket out of the victim 's hands was robbery . |
| 29 | The problem is that whatever I consume greenly or ungreenly constitutes a bite out of the earth 's resources . |
| 30 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 star Luke Perry had to throw a girl out of the men 's room at a Hollywood pizzeria after she followed him to ask for his autograph . |