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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	’ Need to go wary on the Apricot Sunsets in future , ’ she said as she helped me slowly up the basement steps to the street .
2	To get ahead of the teams and join them halfway up the 12,000 foot mountain , Fusil flew a few journalists over the forest canopy just a few feet above the top of the trees .
3	There was steady light drizzle and virtually no wind but the ebb carried them comfortably down the channel to the first turn in front of the clubhouse , after which the doldrums set in .
4	As traders fall over themselves to dump the pound , the wise grow wary that a bear trap may await them further down the line .
5	I 'm not going to go on to the things of the brain because we are going to do them further down the list .
6	‘ And puts you further up the Ryder Cup list , ’ I pointed out .
7	If it does I 'll be on to you straight on the phone .
8	Kiss me straight on the brows !
9	Cut the letters out of coloured paper , arrange them carefully down the bookmark and glue them on .
10	Make sure you do n't put them straight on the table though .
11	Right , I 'll put some make up on Just read them straight out the book ca n't you ?
12	If the concentration increases to the right they turn in that direction until both antennae are sensing equal concentrations : and the rule will guide them straight down the odour trail .
13	The water-keeper escorted me back up the lane .
14	Does my right hon. Friend agree that one way of improving the representation of women in the higher reaches of the civil service still further would be to make matters easier for them lower down the ladder ?
15	Extend your arms Keep them well down the boom to get the rig as upright as possible .
16	His ability took him rapidly up the social security tree and to Number 10 as Jim Callaghan 's Principal Private Secretary .
17	When the therapist interviewed her later on the same day , Liz felt very embarrassed about the overdose and about being in hospital .
18	Lillee bowled another bouncer which did not get up as much as Fletch anticipated and it hit him straight on the head as he took his eye off the ball .
19	He gave it to the driver of the taxi he found outside , who whisked him back up the hill again , back through time to a medieval alley smelling of woodsmoke and urine .
20	Angry that she had defied him and yet delighted at her little-girl behaviour , he reluctantly followed , then , holding her very close , walked her back up the stairs as they counted each step in unison .
21	She let him help her back up the slope , round the other side of the danger area , and demonstrate by the skeletal walls where the various rooms of the baths lay , and their impressive extent .
22	Jack and Miguel got their pars and it was Harley 's turn to go for a closing birdie to put him well up the leader board .
23	This marched him well up the field , and when the final scores came in we saw that he was in equal third place behind Brian Harley and the inevitable Bjorn Carlssen .
24	After all , a round in the mid-60s might well bring him well up the field for a charge on the final two days .
25	He cut the engine , regarding her levelly down the length of the boat .
26	He unhitched his mare , and led her warily down the slope to the Goldbach stream , stumbling and shivering in the raw morning air .
27	‘ O.K. , ’ he said , considerably mollified , and followed her obediently up the garden path and into the kitchen .
28	She watched , as , starting at the shoulder , he wound it right down the arm and the hand , covering the fingers , then wound it back up to the shoulder again .
29	He shrugged , backing the car out of the parking space to turn it deftly up the narrow unpaved path leading up from the river .
30	From time to time one of the team got to his feet , went over to a neat pile of mortar bombs , picked one up and slid it gently down the muzzle of the mortar .