Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " Copydesk " facility allows the user to input text in various forms on to the screen and thus create a true newspaper page . |
| 2 | You can then press a few sprays from the top of the stem or , alternatively , press the entire empty stem , encouraging it to bend in a pleasing curve , and then re-assemble the bells on to the stem when you come to use it in a design . |
| 3 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't explain the rules properly at the outset so it 's only fair we should start again … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 6 | and he could n't a job and then , I me I mean , he tried for apprenticeships all over the place and other jobs and he just could n't get one ! |
| 7 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 8 | It was an enormous red folly with balconies all around the back and to the gardens at the sides , and had been divided into apartments . |
| 9 | I had absolutely no idea and put Malc 's brief disappearances and inexplicable whispered phone calls down to the fact that he was being unfaithful to his mistress . |
| 10 | As one of five kids living in the shadow of Filbert Street , Dublin wrote to clubs all over the country and landed a chance at Norwich . |
| 11 | End expiratory breath samples were collected three times daily throughout the study and analysed for hydrogen and methane concentration . |
| 12 | During the war she toured initially with a small company of Sadler 's Wells artists all over the country and then helped to keep the company alive by undertaking its management at a time when its very existence was threatened . |
| 13 | We have been delighted but not surprised to find so many deserving cases all round the country and now we take a look at ‘ The Wool Shop ’ of Middle Street , Yeovil . |
| 14 | The three judges dismissed five of the six grounds of their appeal , quashing the verdicts only on the possibility that their hands could have been " innocently " contaminated with nitroglycerine , perhaps by drying their hands on a contaminated towel in Anne Maguire 's bathroom ( although no towel was tested ) . |
| 15 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 16 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 17 | It is thanks mostly to the press and a handful of biological entrepreneurs that this ‘ wonder drug ’ has been elevated to the status of a modern-day penicillin . |
| 18 | The plastic mind of the bank-clerk had been overlaid , coloured , and distorted by that which he had read , and the result as delivered was a confused tangle of other voices most like the mutter and hum through a City telephone in the busiest part of the day . |
| 19 | Lizards of course became birds — some as unearthly as the Greater Bird of Paradise , and others , like the Cassowary , which reversed tactics somewhere in the past and returned to the earth again . |
| 20 | Then he vaulted over the breakwater , ran up the steps on to the prom and was lost to view . |
| 21 | She moved cautiously up the corroded metal steps on to the catwalk and knelt beside the German , the Beretta pressed into the nape of his neck . |
| 22 | The religious community sent its messengers on to the set and Burton obliged with such whoppers ( 'playing Marcellus is like playing Hamlet ’ ) that his reputation as an honest interviewee ought to have ended there and then . |
| 23 | The afternoon was full of towering performances right through the team but none bossed the action with more grandeur than Paul Ince , described as ‘ a colossus ’ by Coventry boss Bobby Gould . |
| 24 | There was some attempt by friends of Highlander to purchase some of the books etc. at the auction but the buildings and most of the moveable assets were lost . |
| 25 | Willie fixed his eyes on to the gate and held his breath . |
| 26 | ‘ If I had teeth and tentacles all over the place that 's just the sort of message I 'd send . |
| 27 | Bryan Robson , doubtful for the World Cup match against Poland 24 hours ago , returned for United last night to cruise for 20 minutes before erupting into Captain Marvel , never shirking a tackle and being denied two goals only by the crossbar and a brilliant diving save from Alan Knight . |
| 28 | There 's contractions all over the place because erm and all sorts . |
| 29 | The firm now employs 14 solicitors and associates , who are completing 10 to 15 house purchases a day , and has clients all over the country and across the globe . |
| 30 | A hundred yards or so beyond the house there were steps down to the shore and , curious , he went down to look more closely . |