Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 2 | They both got dressed , quickly and silently , and then tiptoed out of the bedroom and down the white painted wooden staircase . |
| 3 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 4 | He seemed to sense her mood , drawing back a little as they went through the forward lock and up the cockpit steps . |
| 5 | We stayed first with Gary and Kaye ( Burns ) , who live near the top of Seatoun Heights with a stupendous view down the harbour and up the Hutt Valley . |
| 6 | Remarkably quickly , however , the last of the human tide ran from the house entrance and up the ramps of the rigs , which were now almost packed full . |
| 7 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 8 | The French Commando has been wounded in the thigh , the bullet passing in one side and out the other . |
| 9 | Rain firehosing in one side and out the other . |
| 10 | The Dawsons themselves had enthusiastically helped to heave it over a rut and up the slope to the garage . |
| 11 | Simply pass the end of the yarn through the threader and down the hollow tube , attach the weight , and away you go , in moments you have a length of cord ready to use however you wish . |
| 12 | She made her way through the village and out the other side , then pulled over into a gateway by a field and cried her eyes out . |
| 13 | He wrote : ‘ It is like a vast supermarket in which absentmindedly , yet intent on what we are doing , we push our shopping trolleys up one aisle and down the other , while death and alienation have the run of the place . ’ |
| 14 | The 1964 committee devised a system of entrances and exits to the serving points , and people went up one aisle and down the next to avoid confusion . |
| 15 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 16 | Mildred squeezed through the gap and set off as fast as possible along the corridor and down the spiral staircase to the yard . |
| 17 | The audience flowed in behind as Argyll and his tall , rawboned wife dragged Elizabeth , screaming , swearing , fighting every step , out of the hall and up the stair to the empty guest room next to his own . |
| 18 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 19 | It would have a job flattening that boisterous family , thought Joe as he carried the young woman through the passage and up the flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 20 | The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube . |
| 21 | Formal speeches were made by practically every one present , and after each speech one had to have a toast and down the requisite amount of liquour after clinking glasses and saying ‘ gambei ’ ( ‘ empty your glass ’ ) . |
| 22 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 23 | Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas causing the fire to spread along the passageway and up the stairwell to the second floor . |
| 24 | ‘ The blast crashes through the windows and straight through the building and out the other side . |
| 25 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 26 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 27 | Using the tip of your index finger , spread the bead of silicone which has been pushed out by adjoining panels into a rounded seal ( see diagram six ) around the base and up the vertical joints . |
| 28 | Then they ran out of the saloon and up the backstairs as quickly as they could , to resume their game in the safety of the nursery . |
| 29 | ‘ Let's have it in the sitting-room , ’ Miss Honey said , picking up the tray and leading the way out of the kitchen and down the dark little tunnel into the room at the front . |
| 30 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |