Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 2 | Lee Doherty set Alan Dornan free down the right and his cross from the by-line was headed home superbly by Garry Haylock . |
| 3 | Back at the hotel , I help him clear up the lounge bar , which still bears the debris from Andy 's last party a few months earlier . |
| 4 | and they actually failed there erm her riding test because they were n't sitting straight on the horse . |
| 5 | In complete figures the head generally sits straight on the lion-neck , but the long , sinuous bird 's neck is a constant feature of the cauldron-heads . |
| 6 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 7 | Column Eight : Freezing out the opposition |
| 8 | He still has a match against world champions Germany to negotiate next Saturday , but his much-maligned players have shown they still possess the spark to brazen out the autumn qualifying triple against Poland , Holland and San Marino . |
| 9 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 10 | That was called Glen Bainey And there is a stone out there a great huge stone oh that was called Clachnagowan I 've seen that many And if you went there you If you got the length of Clachnagowan you looked right out the hill right out to Glen Bainey |
| 11 | Philip loved the smelly , aggressive little dogs and was always fussing in case they got stuck down the rabbit holes . |
| 12 | When Santa got stuck up the whatsit . |
| 13 | At least it was n't stuck up the bum ! |
| 14 | Plus , now he knows how Santa feels.The airman who got stuck up the chimney . |
| 15 | When Santa got stuck up the chimney . |
| 16 | When Santa got stuck up the chimney achoo achoo achoo |
| 17 | Beth had long ago given up the idea of winning the old man over . |
| 18 | Well I 'm just make sure you behave your alright but just go a bit steady out the front there . |
| 19 | Our cottage lay on stubby cliffs close by the sea . |
| 20 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 21 | In a London teaching hospital close by the river , from which he could in his more masochistic moments glimpse the window of his own office , Dr. Charles Freeborn , Controller of the Forensic Science Service , all six foot four of him , lay rigidly in his narrow bed , his nose peaked high above the methodical fold of the sheet , his white hair a haze against the whiter pillow . |
| 22 | There were houses of turf and stone close by the river , and sometimes they passed rowboats , but the flatboat was sailing up against a rock wall it could not scale . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the 11th century Gundulph , Bishop of Rochester , looking for a site to build for himself and his successors a manor house , chose a spot close by the river at Halling . |
| 24 | ‘ The wild duck wherries to the distant flood … ''Whizz goes the peewit o'er the ploughman 's team/ with many a whew and whirl and sudden scream … ’ 'A sedge bird built its little benty nest/ close by the meadow-pool and wooden brig … ’ |
| 25 | Molly had stood beside him and had pointed out one particularly small drawer close by the door . |
| 26 | He 'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door . |
| 27 | Situated in the Heart of Coventry adjacent to the famous Cathedral , and close by the Museum of British Road Transport . |
| 28 | A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean . |
| 29 | An obsidian plaza close by the road-block was almost deserted . |
| 30 | NOTE : Before you start shampooing , check that the carpet is well secure around the perimeter . |