Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a drowning woman clinging to a frail piece of wreckage , she hung for dear life on to the bedpost while the images cluttered her mind : Benedict smiling ; Caswell shocked ; a loved face dying ; the wasted face of Lady Lavinia dead , eyes open ; Araminta 's bitter , hating mouth ; Rose 's pleading smile for Benedict . |
| 2 | A recent example of how plans have come unstuck is the fate of the Japan-backed ASEAN plan for automobile components , where Indonesia 's intransigency has put plans for regional specialisation back on the drawing board . |
| 3 | By Vietnam 's own calculation some US$600 million would be necessary for economic restructuring up to the end of 1993 . |
| 4 | Well , we certainly ought to try , and if we ca n't then there 'll be a very good case for generous compensation out of the secret funds . ’ |
| 5 | Even before the war ended an Education Act was passed which recognized the case for state support for free education up to the age of fourteen . |
| 6 | Time and again , Marco Polo boldly goes where no recording company has ventured before , pulling wonderful surprise after wonderful surprise out of the hat , and this is as good as any of them . |
| 7 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 8 | As the residents bring out their used syringes and collect new ones , a neighbour of sorts , a working-class black man who lives in an apartment across the street , brings a bundle of used clothing on to the wasteland . |
| 9 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 10 | Fingers of light poke about in the back of the hall , casting Spiritualized 's five members ( plus Will Gregory on sax ) as shadow puppets in an incredibly static play . |
| 11 | Immediately a little beam of light shot out of the barrel of the gun , aimed at the target . |
| 12 | I pull my little piece of four-by-two-inch rag out of the barrel of the Smith & Wesson , hold the pistol up to the overhead fluorescent , and squint inside . |
| 13 | As they reached the centre of the lion enclosure , a large cage on wheels was ahead of them , and a young woman with a pitchfork was shovelling carcasses of raw meat out through the bars while adult male lions , lionesses and their cubs crowded round . |
| 14 | The Skeleton rips a chunk of raw flesh out of the character ( normal damage , +3 ) and then sits on the floor and begins to bite and tear at its ‘ meal ’ . |
| 15 | A recent article on this theme brought both censors and defenders of free expression out of the woodwork and into the correspondence columns of the Library Association record . |
| 16 | Early one morning they tied their stripy woven bags of Tibetan salt on to the yaks and left for the south . |
| 17 | As he bent tenderly over it to examine the flattened tyres , a hand stuck a length of rubber piping out of the wash-room window and directed a jet of water down his neck . |
| 18 | Putting a length of rubber tubing on to the attachment , she turned a bottle upside-down to allow the liquid to flow . |
| 19 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 20 | Thus , unlike social class , social network does not require us to project at the initial stage a fully-fledged theory of social structure on to the linguistic data . |
| 21 | The only area an exile hopes to cultivate is what the Americans call ‘ the chicken and peas circuit ’ — those endless dinners , lunches and buffet suppers by which the Conservative Party binds its supporters in a form of social cement out in the sticks . |
| 22 | To take any form of cultural production out of the market , by new patronal or public funding , is a very deliberate decision , with its own , sometimes isolating and conserving , effects . |
| 23 | Geographical proximity meant that these relations have continued to be of crucial importance through into the post-1945 period . |
| 24 | Stepping forward to get a firmer grip , I trod on the rake whose handle leapt up , giving me a nasty crack on the brow and a making me stagger , knocking a bottle of systemic insecticide on to the floor , where it shattered and spread a nauseating puddle at my feet . |
| 25 | So far we 've seen the highlights of Central News up to the end of nineteen eighty-eight when the programme was broadcast from Birmingham . |
| 26 | Together , the three of them removed the boards which formed the trough and the natron ran off in a tide of white powder on to the floor . |
| 27 | Press pieces of white icing on to the remaining green icing , then roll and fold the ends into the centre . |
| 28 | The area where the Parsons lived lay not in the desirable temperate zone called North Oxford but further north , too far by half , in the boreal tundra of pre-war suburbia out towards the ring road , beyond which lie the arctic wastes of Kidlington , where first-time buyers huddle in their brick igloos and watch the mortgage rate rising . |
| 29 | You could see them squatting on their hams silhouetted around bonfires ; sometimes one of the figures would throw a lump of dried buffalo-dung on to the flames . |
| 30 | Similarly , if you want to change the diet from juicy brown canned food to into a dry complete diet , start by mixing just a couple of pieces of dried food in with the juicy stuff , gradually increasing the proportion each day until you reach the desired menu . |