Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Station cafés like the one at Temple Meads — I saw the freckly man with the ginger hair , stared him straight in the eye but he did n't recognize me — you ca n't sleep there at night , Vern said , but you can buy a coffee during the day and sit there nodding off and they think you 're just tired from travelling . |
| 2 | To some extent this was natural , for , as economic mobilisation became total , finance took a back seat to the direct controls over labour and materials . |
| 3 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 4 | Long-term planning took a back seat in the deliberations of the senior engineers whose efforts were principally devoted to overcoming short-term problems . |
| 5 | Angry Hollywood residents slapped an 11pm curfew on the flashes and bangs during night-time filming of 45-year-old Arnie 's new film The Last Action Hero in the secluded hills . |