Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off down the passage and the assistant sealed them in before returning to the shop . |
| 2 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 3 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 4 | However , once the gun has gone they are not allowed to shut you out by sailing above the course to the first mark . |
| 5 | Even the middle-ranking provincial posts continued to attract humbler noblemen who often took them up after retiring from the army . |
| 6 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 7 | ‘ I see it now — it 's that stupid young fool 's idea of a joke , to pay me out for objecting to the way he 's been behaving towards Rose ! |
| 8 | I 'm not going to bail him out by jumping into the car . |
| 9 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 10 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 11 | The data is then made public ; the full dataset and the commands to set it up for processing by the statistical package SPSS- X can be obtained from the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex for the cost of processing . |
| 12 | ( Sometimes you can write the word on a blackboard , and ask the child to rub it out by tracing over the letters with his finger . ) |
| 13 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |