Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was entirely grassless and a little soft underfoot , and it sloped rather badly down towards the sea by the midwicket boundary . |
| 2 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 3 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd be much better off in the dining-room , ’ Alexandra said to the mice . |
| 5 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 6 | He was only just back in the house when he heard his Mum draw up in the car . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's because of that helplessness that I have to go , ’ and he walked so quickly out of the churchyard that she could not follow him . |
| 8 | ‘ XYZ ’ is rooted much further back down the racks of dog-eared discs in the second-hand shops where Moose once worked , back to C&W , maverick balladeers and songwriters like Jim Webb , Lee Hazelwood , Gram Parsons and Fred Neil ( whose ‘ Everybody 's Talkin' ’ gets charmingly worked over here ) rather than soundscapers . |
| 9 | In some ways , we 're much further back from the starting line . |
| 10 | ‘ Sorry to mention a critic 's name so early on in the proceedings . |
| 11 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 12 | I reckon your sort of timetable for doing this wants to be , early next week to meet to work out exactly what questions you are gon na do and mak make a questionnaire and perhaps later on in the week Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , start to ask some people Now on the Friday this time this we this time next week you c |
| 13 | Maybe you were n't so far out with the name . |
| 14 | Some outstations were so far out of the way , the public did not know they were there , said Prestatyn Coun Richard Edwards . |
| 15 | Do you think that are so far down on the totem pole because the people at the top are men and are taking decision that are n't in women 's best interests ? |
| 16 | The trolled and gargoyled buttresses wheel around you through rifts in the cloud ; they stretch , soar , disappear , solidify again suddenly out of the vapour then drift impossibly far up into the mist until your senses reel at the evanescent dynamism of the scene . |
| 17 | Yet , I always conclude , it might have seemed strange and unnatural to have shown too much feeling ; strange , and perhaps embarrassing and out of order , I being somewhat far down in the family hierarchy . |
| 18 | Occasionally Valiant would patrol down to the West Country and less frequently round into the Bristol Channel and other parts of the West Coast . |
| 19 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 20 | SOCIAL Security Secretary Peter Lilley was under fire last night for claiming the Government had protected the less well off through the recession . |
| 21 | No wonder Mme Chaillot was so frequently out of the country . |
| 22 | In their study of a sample of divorcees , Thornes and Collard ( 1979 ) found that wives tended to believe that there were marital problems much earlier on in the marriage . |
| 23 | Immediately to the west of the col is the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , then , to the left of that , the granite mass if of Néouvielle , with beyond it the rim of the Cirque de Gavarnie , and the Monte Perdido on the Spanish side ; and so on round to the south-east , in a wonderfully three dimensional arrangement of crests and hollows . |
| 24 | He peered carefully at the slim frail woman who stood so resolutely out on the porch . |
| 25 | I never understand why the teeth of winter bite so cruelly down into the bone , how daylight sickens from the east , why Elsbeth is so chill as I lie with her , why the nights are so long , without word or gleam . |
| 26 | He would get right away out of the town , blow the cobwebs out of his brain . |
| 27 | Oh goodness yes there 's mud , there was like Cliff Quay you had , you had your mud and when you come to chalk and further down the river you come to ballast near , near Al near the Albridge and further down you come to peat , then you come to green clay , then you come to Cattoes you c you start to dredge ballast again , Pinn Mill you 'd dredge ballast and then right away down to the sea you 'd dredge ballast . |
| 28 | This in itself created a double problem because the action of this scene moves from a point where Nicholson is talking normally right through to the point where he is stoned and slurred through smoking marijuana . |
| 29 | If you go down Road there , I know they 're getting confused , if you go just straight up below the arch onto the main road to Belfast and Antrim , turn right up the top of the road a bit , and it 's your first er it 's building on the |
| 30 | These are just straight up against the metal . |