Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Normally playing seated amphitheaters , our audience and the Mary Chain 's tend to be up the back on the lawns .
2 Because of the political situation , the ferry route had to be up the west coast of Africa .
3 So it means it 's not Ah so it means it 's got to be up the top end .
4 Our last patrol before Christmas was to be up the East coast to Buckie where we would leave the ship and travel home by train .
5 For a while there I thought we were going to be up the creek without a paddle . ’
6 I remember asking on the shop floor of a division , the board of which had been reduced from fifteen to four , what the major difference was This was not because the fifteen previous board members had felt to be down the line , and was told , to my surprise , that the biggest difference was that they now knew what was going on .
7 They all seemed to be down the after ballast compartment so I called down something like , " Come on lads , " I 've got my seizure , what about yours ? "
8 It was his father , Colin Cauldhame , who got the cordite from the ship-breaking yard there used to be down the coast .
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