Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the cash and the cup they were treated to an executive night out at the scene of their triumphs , the Superbowl at Stoke-on-Trent 's Festival Park . |
| 2 | He could glamour it all up by putting in a phoney dashboard and to that end he thought that perhaps he could borrow ( borrow is a word we use a lot in the Air Force ) some instruments from an old aeroplane down on the aerodrome — I believe it was a Boulton Paul Sidestrand . |
| 3 | Undismayed , he haled an old man out of the audience , stuck him in the chair , and then spoke himself for an hour and answered all the questions . |
| 4 | He was gently coaxing an old lady on to the duckboards , and his elaborate care and concern made Meredith think better of him . |
| 5 | You 're well-matched with Doreen , who was ready to kick an old lady out of the home she 'd lived in for years . ’ |
| 6 | IN AN effort to clean up the mess that has afflicted the Environmental Protection Agency , President Reagan last week pulled an old broom out of the cupboard . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's his generation , ’ Molly reassured him , lifting an empty suitcase on to the top of a cupboard . |
| 8 | Four of the young nomes had dragged an empty can out of the bushes . |
| 9 | A visit will be an exciting day out for the entire family . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had ever such an interesting walk down on the beach with Mr. Telling . |
| 11 | You can clutch at your forehead , sway dramatically , and with wide haunted eyes , cry , ‘ Where am I … ? ’ before weaving an unsteady path out into the night . |
| 12 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 13 | Comin Thro ’ the Rye ( 1922 ) , for example , exploits the beauties of the English countryside and constructs an allegorical subtext out of the changing seasons , but the narrative approach dilutes the dramatic potential inherent in its tale of a simple girl robbed of her true love by a heartless flirt , the sort of woman who is ‘ very useful for amusing men on rainy days . ’ |
| 14 | Students may register for an additional module up to the end of week 1 of the relevant term ( week 2 for new students in their first term ) , and must officially delete modules by week 6 ( about to be brought forward to week 4 ) of the current term . |
| 15 | They 'll go for an extra check up with the medical staff , a couple of weeks before their operation . |
| 16 | Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body . |
| 17 | Then , medal safely tucked away , it was time for an impromptu picnic out of the boot of the limosine , and do a little celebrity spotting . |
| 18 | The investigation started with an endoscopic examination up to the junction of the sigmoid descending colon . |
| 19 | Several manuals were published : prestigious journals such as Scientific American reported on the importance of earth as a building material ; and in Britain , in 1920 , the government built an entire village out of the local earth . |
| 20 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 21 | Before he got half way , they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor . |
| 22 | It is worth going to Eira da Serrado , just above Curral das Freiras , for an amazing view down onto the village of Curral das Freiras which nestles in a spectacular deep valley . |
| 23 | Permission to prospect for oil and gas in blocks of the seabed in UK waters is given to oil companies that bid under an annual licensing round to the Government . |
| 24 | A rentcharge is the right to receive an annual sum out of the income of land , usually in perpetuity , and to distrain if the payments are in arrear ; the owner of the land is also personally liable to pay , and further remedies against the land have been given by statute . |
| 25 | From here , farm roads and lanes give an easy passage down to the main road and the Hill Inn . |
| 26 | I use this as the voice of synthesising adulthood , oiling the disjointed , making an easy tolerability out of the unbearable , making a lubricated narrative out of what has no characters . |
| 27 | It is an easy walk down from the church of Sauveterre to the riverside , where the stump of the old fortified bridge still stands , starting hopefully out from one bank but no longer reaching to the other — a disappointed bridge , to borrow James Joyce 's perfect description of a seaside pier . |
| 28 | It now proposes that the offence of taking an unmarried girl out of the possession of her parents with intent to have sexual intercourse should include both boys and girls provided that they are under 16 . |
| 29 | Whereas the Natural History Museum ( the V&A 's neighbour on the other side of Exhibition Road ) attempts to justify admissions charges through an energetic advertising and marketing campaign promoting the idea of the museum visit as an entertaining-cum-educational day out for the whole family , the ‘ national Museum of Art and Design ’ must work to counteract the potential elitism implicit in its status as an institution of cultural as opposed to ‘ natural ’ history . |
| 30 | By the time of King Hussein 's Aug. 13 visit to Iraq for talks with Saddam Hussein , his efforts to contain the dispute within the Arab world had failed and he was directing his efforts at constructing an effective bloc along with the PLO , Yemen , Sudan , Algeria and Tunisia . |