Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a prank to capture some upstart tech gang member , or some undercity riff-raff , and throw him into the heat sink itself to slide or tumble or simply fall free , down , down , tens of kilometres down into the inferno . |
| 2 | Hundreds of metres up in the sky above Ashdale , he was running along the Edge with every last fibre of his body . |
| 3 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 4 | A warm front had passed the previous day , leaving the usual warm sector haze , the following cold front was still hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic so would be of no interest to the mainland for a few days . |
| 5 | Millions of miles down in the black , twisted heart of me I do . |
| 6 | Surely the Secretary of State agrees that it is economic madness to switch electricity generation from coal to gas , close scores of collieries and throw thousands of miners on to the dole ? |
| 7 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 8 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 9 | The police action brought thousands of protestors back to the centre of Bucharest . |
| 10 | It was not right , it said , to criminalise ‘ the unrest , worries and questions which drove thousands of Dresdeners on to the streets ’ . |
| 11 | Had to be kept thousands of miles out in the ocean . ’ |
| 12 | Oxfam has cancelled a charity pop concert amid fears that it would attract thousands of travellers back to the Malvern Hills , the scene of last month 's illegal Bank Holiday festival . |
| 13 | After his big concert , Van invited dozens of Soviets back to the hotel , where we ate chocolates and caviar and drank local champagne . |