Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 2 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 3 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 4 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 5 | Anyway , so that gets back to the thing over policy . |
| 6 | I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the . |
| 7 | The terrain being flat , the wind tore across scrub and heathland unimpeded , and the snow it drove ahead of itself banked against our cottage , so that to get out to the pump we had to dig ourselves a path . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 9 | She grunted fiercely and set off up the slope . |
| 10 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 11 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 12 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 13 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 14 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 15 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 16 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 17 | There , it seemed , commentary was powerless and pointless ; he would simply read the text aloud and move on to the next poem . |
| 18 | Firstly , it was accepted by all Scots that the coronation of their king was valid only if carried out upon the Stone of Destiny , and in spite of the Christian ceremony accompanying it the right to place the crown on the new monarch 's head belonged irrevocably to the Earl of Fife , premier layman of the realm . |
| 19 | Signe took the money gleefully and ran out of the room shouting , ‘ I can take a hint . |
| 20 | This gentleman visited Miss Mack every 18 months or so and put up at the Bell for the week of his stay . |
| 21 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 22 | They want to move the whole competition — lock , stock and barrel — out of the province entirely and turn in into the Jersey Milk Cup . |
| 23 | I only know that it was remarkable that he could react so swiftly and swoop down round the rabbit 's ears . |
| 24 | I told her I would n't be long and went back down the path . |
| 25 | You would see broken cups gathering themselves together and jumping back onto the table . |
| 26 | By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders . |
| 27 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 28 | Do n't work on it together and come up with the same . |
| 29 | It helps , for example , to improve hip abduction ( used in roundhouse kicks when the kicking knee is lifted to the side ) by sitting with the soles of your feet together and close in to the body . |
| 30 | Cement the four chimney sides together and secure on to the roof . |