Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Shekhar came to power last November by leading 60-odd defectors out of the ruling Janata Dal , and forming a minority government with the support of Congress . |
| 2 | Mayne 's plan was to take his fighting patrols out into the Great Sand Sea and establish a forward base , from which they could sally out and harass the enemy . |
| 3 | Hats off to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital for introducing a new scheme which means no parents will have to take their new baby home from the maternity unit without a proper infant carrier . |
| 4 | 1PM Hundreds of looters stream like ants out of the giant Sears ( ‘ Where America shops ! ’ ) department store at Western and Santa Monica , carrying TVs , racks of clothing , fishing rods , anything and everything , on foot to their homes . |
| 5 | It was a successful scheme , popular with travellers and with hoteliers who clamoured to get their hotels on to the prestigious Cook 's list . |
| 6 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 7 | She pushed the papers back into the large Crockford and looked round the room , realising there ought to be a servants ' stair to the first floor continuing the one running from the ground floor to the basement . |
| 8 | Every year , female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States . |
| 9 | As the water piles up in the western Pacific , it then becomes both warmer and more dilute . |