Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 2 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 3 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 4 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 5 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 6 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 7 | For example if , unlike the present case , the school could have been filled with boys paying the full fee , the school would have lost the fee income from the places occupied by the children of the taxpayers for whom only the concessionary fee was payable . |
| 8 | The Honourable A. P. J. Vigars , who was at Cambridge two years ahead of Howard ; the retiring figure in Trinity of whom all the great men of Howard 's generation were in awe . |
| 9 | Miller 's partiality for flowering shrubs is evident throughout his writing and among them perhaps the versatile roses offered him greatest scope : he appreciated the many aspects of this genus and he understood how they might be best displayed . |
| 10 | Canon Wheeler was inquiring about them only the other week . |
| 11 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 12 | ‘ Ancient person , ’ [ began Gooseneck ] , ‘ for whom I All the flattering youth defy , Long be it ere thou grow old , Aching , shaking , crazy , cold ; But still continue as thou art , Ancient person of my heart . |
| 13 | He had a new dream , now , in which he was chased by something or someone down the long , windowless corridors of an institutional building . |
| 14 | Er , I just the main point . |
| 15 | So it , this has some things in the picture gain importance , although I still the black and white ones . |
| 16 | We dragged ourselves up the wide , eroded mess of a path that leads to Ben Lawers and up into the storm . |
| 17 | His absolute conviction at that time , reinforced by an extraordinary personal charm and magnetism gave me just the right insight and guidance that I needed . |
| 18 | They lower the prestige by which alone the white races can hope to govern and to guide . |
| 19 | But in the final analysis it is a question of political history , which only the political historians can resolve . |
| 20 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
| 21 | No spark of humour ( even of sanity ) was allowed to invade the hallowed Mixture as Before : Beauty , Knitting , Fashion , Cookery , Short Story , in embalmed vacuity , delivered from that pinnacle of self-righteousness which only the mediocre could sustain . |
| 22 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 23 | These items could be represented by twin reservoirs for which only the net flow relative to the remainder of the system would be measured . |
| 24 | Cut off from links with the political practice of the masses , which only the communist party could provide , their writings would inevitably serve only to confuse and mislead the popular struggle , and to give aid and comfort to counter-revolutionary forces . |
| 25 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 26 | True egoism , as we have described it , is conceivable only under conditions of conflict in which only the pre-human ends remain . |
| 27 | Most important of all , diplomacy remained an expensive and , except in the highest ranks , underpaid profession , one which only the well-to-do could hope to enter . |
| 28 | The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed . |
| 29 | In judging a living thing , other imponderables also come into play , which only the trained eye of an experienced judge can correctly assess within the framework of the total picture . |
| 30 | Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of . |