Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of specific requests please ring the appropriate number below between eight o'clock in the morning and six o'clock at night . |
| 2 | Arthur Hand ( Bradford ) alternated between the bomb and waggler tempting four chub on the caster for 10–6–0 downstream at the footbridge . |
| 3 | It 's real old fashioned cos you know the flush , when you pull a flush water comes up about that far from the top . |
| 4 | ‘ And so it came about that all over the land children were assembled in groups of 40 and made to learn the facts set out in the books written by Messrs Hall & Stevens , Warner & Martin , Durrell & Palmer , and Potter and Ridout . |
| 5 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 6 | right , okay , when should we try and go for that maybe at the end of April beginning of May ? |
| 7 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 8 | We do not condone the bad quality and deplorable appearance of some of the speculative building between the wars , nor the lack of physical planning and the wasteful development of land ( often good farming land ) ; we shall have more to say about this later in the chapter . |
| 9 | I know you 're not Steve but all I 'm saying is that we had a discussion about this earlier in the week . |
| 10 | Local social services departments ( formerly local health departments ) provide day nurseries for some up to the age of 5 . |
| 11 | We pay for this however in the vulnerability of wood to moisture . |
| 12 | There is evidence for this both in the slowness of attitude change in response to advertising and in the long duration of memory of successful advertising . |
| 13 | A negative test in an anaemic patient can not exclude the possibility of carcinoma of the colon and therefore patients with iron deficiency anaemia should be investigated for this regardless of the presence or absence of frank or occult faecal bleeding . |
| 14 | So should you look for this too in the youth of their killer ? |
| 15 | In the event , and after at least a hint of treachery , shortly after eight o'clock on the night of 19 December 1946 the Vietminh blew up the power station in Hanoi and signalled the formal beginning of the Vietnam war . |
| 16 | George Felse telephoned his wife from the Sallows farm somewhat after eight o'clock in the morning . |
| 17 | Originally a Benedictine Abbey Church , which was destroyed by fire in 1120 , it was rebuilt soon after this much on the pattern of S. Mark 's in Venice and was made into a Cathedral in 1649 . |
| 18 | The survey will be begun to be made , as soon as 500 copies are subscribed for , and it is eagerly requested that such as wish to become subscribers , will be as early as possible in signifying their names , that the proposer may embrace the opportunity of surveying all the streets this summer , which can not be conveniently done after 7 o'clock in the morning , on account of the interruption of carriage . |
| 19 | It 's not long after six o'clock in the morning that he leaves . |
| 20 | They were of course no different from good maintained grammar schools and owed their survival after 10/65 only to the anomaly created in 1926 and perpetuated in 1944 . |
| 21 | After 4 a.m. on the morning of the twenty-seventh the eruption appeared to die down a little , but the grandest moments were yet to come . |
| 22 | The TWA jet from New York landed at Dublin airport at just after ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 23 | It was a little after ten o'clock by the time the three men gathered in the council chamber over the post office and unrolled the plans on the long oak table . |
| 24 | We were sent out in pairs after 6 pm in the evening when all the paterfamilias who were left might be at home , to make a thorough census of the district and ask who might be in a house , when , and what were the provisions for even more serious raiding . |
| 25 | Anthony returned soon after five o'clock with the news that there was no penicillin in the city at all , but that he had telephoned everyone he could think of who might supply it and had sent a telegram to UNRRA headquarters . |
| 26 | The last guest left , or was taken away , after five o'clock in the morning . |
| 27 | Much of the rhetoric of the war effort had been imperialistic and the imperial idea retained strong political allegiance after 1945 especially on the right of British politics . |
| 28 | The talk is on Friday the 5th of January 1990 at our usual time of 7.30 p.m. at the Community College . |
| 29 | Hockley was content with her opening one over par round of 74 yesterday in the event which was last played at St Enodoc in 1937 . |
| 30 | I 'll give a , a further example of that later in the lecture . |