Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had returned on the late theatre train , and it had been most pleasant walking down from the railway station and along the seafront so late at night ; ah , to have a pretty girl by one 's side , and the touch of her lips on yours . |
| 2 | Yeah , and here 's a little funny picture out of the newspaper . |
| 3 | About a year later a most peculiar way out of the difficulty was found by Max Planck . |
| 4 | No spraying , of course , and only circumspect cutting back at the most appropriate time . |
| 5 | Frowning slightly , she hurried across the highly polished floor back into the dining room , and was in time to see Patrick sneeze again and then again . |
| 6 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 7 | Groans and sobbing wove through the smoke-reeked air but the sprinklers were already pouring foam on to the consoles and the power cut abruptly . |
| 8 | Right okay log on to the network , get into Microfit , call up Q M four FIT and say data last of the finished testing for structural change and then we 'll move on to and diagnostics |
| 9 | Moreover , most galaxies are found in clusters , and we can similarly infer the presence of yet more dark matter in between the galaxies in these clusters by its effect on the motion of the galaxies . |
| 10 | Then he sidled in a conspicuously casual way back to the cave . |
| 11 | If the circulation scheme proposed in ref. 3 is adopted , namely cyclonic flow out of the Labrador Sea eastwards across the North Atlantic , with northward branches into the Irminger Basin and into the Iceland Basin and Rockall Trough , then the water in the Iceland Basin should be of more recent origin than that of the Rockall Trough because it is closer to the source . |
| 12 | It is a reasonably steep walk up between the trees and the outcrops and takes about forty-five minutes . |
| 13 | It is quite a shock to move from this charming , if slightly aimless stuff back into the original cacophonous maelstrom . |
| 14 | By the early 1720s the Lambtons were living in Lambton Castle , a mile westwards , and Freville , a younger son of Sir Thomas Lambton set about building a thoroughly modern house on to the pele tower . |
| 15 | Wearing eight layers of clothing including a duvet , I was almost pleasantly warm flogging up to the bottom of the crag . |
| 16 | ‘ They serve a damn good steak over in the Ormond , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Well that 's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine , but pretty soon you 'd have to do something about it , would n't you ? |
| 18 | Developing since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century , accelerating in the nineteenth century in step with the acceleration of capitalist industry , the process of intrusion increasingly separated culture out into the familiar contours of ‘ high ’ and ‘ low ’ , isolating what it could not assimilate . |
| 19 | Japan remained a predominantly agrarian society up to the late 1930s , and the family and the village community are the keys to any understanding of Japanese society in the prewar years . |
| 20 | Thus the unique authority of the Bible as the inspired Word of God came to be stressed with a quite new sharpness over against the established teaching . |
| 21 | He walks out of the shrine without looking at the crowd , picks up one of the lambs , frightened and bleating , and carries its almost weightless body round to the side of the shrine . |
| 22 | The father , thinking it was some foolish notion she had taken to have him out of the boat , took no notice of her frantic signs , but she would not let him go , and dragged him with almost superhuman effort out of the boat . |
| 23 | I put this down to having lots of plants for the fry to hide in , and my practice of leaving a very dim light on during the night which is controlled by a dimmer switch . |
| 24 | We followed as easy path through this still spectacular but very different scenery back to the campsite , picking up blue then yellow and finally red markers back . |
| 25 | But in 1992 , the only thrusting we can expect of a businessman is that which propels him from a very high building on to the recession-hit pavement below . |
| 26 | Besides , they were cold and wet and the burrow , while it would n't have sounded a very comfortable proposition back at the quarry , was suddenly much better than the horrible night outside . |
| 27 | Bowe 's disturbingly casual manner out of the ring is of more concern to both his rivals and his supporters . |
| 28 | They blocked the pavement and there was this bloody great lorry up against the path so anybody coming down or up the road had to walk into the road or co , cross the road to the other side ! |
| 29 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 30 | I was too busy holding on to the edge of my chair and waiting for him to rise twenty feet in the air . |