Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a deep breath , then another , like a diver about to plunge into the depths , and nodded . |
| 2 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 3 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 4 | I phoned up and I got phone up to ask for the information right ? |
| 5 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 6 | His fingers drew strands of hair out to glitter in the firelight . |
| 7 | When they were ready , send a messenger back to bring over the remainder , who would endeavour to ride on and past as silently as possible and form the barrier between town and castle . |
| 8 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 9 | Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide . |
| 10 | The jumping front kick 1 : drive upwards and forwards , thrusting the leg out to strike with the ball of the foot . |
| 11 | He really looked so absurdly young and guileless , so like a starry-eyed subaltern about to go over the top into the machine-guns of the Somme , that Maxim almost answered . |
| 12 | Liartes brought his mount in to land on the turf a few yards away and dismounted casually . |
| 13 | Can he give some assurances that there will be coherent planning to make sure that there are no vulnerable people er affected in this way , in the transition over to care in the community ? |
| 14 | I would finish unpacking , have a look at the cooker and set things ready for supper , then I would take a walk out to look at the sea , and gather kindling in case the evening turned chilly enough for a fire . |
| 15 | Waqar about to return to the battle , Gower outwardly calm , than whom no Englishman would have preferred another to have been at this place at this hour . |
| 16 | It 's remarkable how similar an owl hooting can sound to a homicidal , horny-clawed , hairy , fanged demon from the bowels of hell about to rip through the canvas and tear your throat out with a gurgling , raspy cackle . |
| 17 | Erm it is the only way , they 've told us , we can get our cost down to compete with the world market . |
| 18 | I squeezed my way out to find at the foot of the cathedral steps the white helmets of a military band celebrating Easter state-style , surrounded by the boy soldiers of Peru in grey , black and khaki , armed with machine-guns . |
| 19 | Yes , the money still finds its way out to pay for the cloth . ’ |
| 20 | A CHILDLESS woman was sacked from her job at a private hospital after she took time off to recover from the loss of surrogate twins , it was said . |
| 21 | Snatching her gun back to point into the air , Ace drew a startled breath . |
| 22 | Members of the Christ College chapel choir took time out to sing on the Durham streets before a concert in Durham Cathedral last night . |
| 23 | BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MUSIC , LET'S take time out to talk about the sound : does Denon 's painstaking work with these Savoy masters really represent an audible improvement or does it mean — as with some historic classical recordings that have been treated to ‘ NoNOISE ’ or ‘ Cedar ’ — merely reduced surface noise at the expense of the loss of the top end ( important ambient noise , feathery cymbals etc. ) and a tubby overall sound ? |
| 24 | Above all , August is a month to take some time out to relax in the garden and reap the rewards of all the hard work you put in earlier in the season . |
| 25 | Take time out to relax by the pond ; a cool refuge on hot , balmy days of late summer |
| 26 | The Newmarket based light-weight has a good record for Westfield Moves 's trainer Hugh Collingridge , who sent the five-year-old out to win on the grass at Pontefract last season . |
| 27 | Although the quantity of its output so far may not satisfy some observers , there is every reason to believe that , over the next year , preparers , auditors and users will be suffering from indigestion as a result of the material about to emerge from the pipeline . |
| 28 | Firdaus is a prostitute about to die for the murder of her pimp . |