Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't swim , never have been able to , and I did n't go out on a boat because along with the rest of the family I have always been afraid of water . |
| 2 | Their greater height posed no problem for spore dispersal : if anything , it was a help since up in the tree tops , spores were more easily caught by the wind and carried away . |
| 3 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 4 | The illegal payments scandal brought them down to earth with a bump and down into the 3rd division . |
| 5 | They spent the rest of the morning checking over their equipment before being herded up a gangplank and on to the waiting troop carrier . |
| 6 | If you made it and laid down them the the man that was doing it , he 'd only to lift that and give it a twine and on to the next . |
| 7 | If , as is likely , this one is a female , she will suddenly whistle a call and out of the hole come a dozen youngsters which bustle eagerly about her , groping with their muzzles for her teats . |
| 8 | He climbs up a ladder and on to the roof . |
| 9 | He fell silent as he wrestled the van round a corner and on to the main road . |
| 10 | Tyson , meanwhile , has four years to serve of his sentence , but with his good prison behaviour , could be out of jail in a year and back in the ring within 18 months . |
| 11 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 12 | Each bump is as little as six angstroms or , six 10-billionths of a metre from its neighbour and was snapped by passing an electric current through the silicon , across a vacuum and up into the tip of an electrode moving across the surface . |
| 13 | Not today , however , and now my route took me off the road by a stile and up over the hill by an old quarry track . |