Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on everyone in the country will have the chance to recommend ‘ deserving cases ’ for an award . |
| 2 | Whilst it may be too much to ask that you immediately take on any responsibility for seeing that the 120,000 weekly NME s are properly recycled ( By heck , we are talking SERIOUS wank — ER ! — SW ) , you could perhaps act responsibly by doing your bit to ease unemployment by taking on someone with the job of disposing of your own rubbish soundly . |
| 3 | Dryden 's sister Elsie Donnelly said yesterday : ‘ The family was given the option of taking it down ourselves by the council . ’ |
| 4 | . He followed a difficult zigzag path from Porlock Weir to Culbone , climbing through woodland which abounded in ‘ wild deer , foxes , badgers , and martin cats ’ ; whortleberries grew in plenty beneath the canopy of trees , and as the ascent progressed , the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below and glimpses of the Channel and the Welsh mountains were sufficient to fill one eighteenth century traveller with mingled ‘ pleasure and astonishment ’ . |
| 5 | Joseph Thomson , the first European to explore Masailand , noted that ‘ they indulged in none of the obtrusive , vulgar inquisitiveness or aggressive impertinence which makes the traveller 's life a burden to him among other native tribes ’ . |
| 6 | Disappointment at further omission was offset by selection to tour England in 1964 , though he played in none of the Tests , and was troubled by a recurring shoulder injury . |
| 7 | Again , for reasons stated above , this group was differentiated along gender lines , occurring in none of the female cases and 30 per cent of the male cases . |
| 8 | Julius featured in none of the drawings , but she still seemed to see him ; she could see that sudden haunted look in his eyes . |
| 9 | - You start getting this strange maternal urge to bring in everything from the garden overnight . |
| 10 | Left one , down one onto the block marked 1 , then down one more to collect the gem . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's got something to do with lying down one beside the other , when you 're married , ’ Eve said . |
| 12 | He took down everything except the photo of Uncle John 's platoon . |
| 13 | With a horrible gurgle , the man toppled backwards to lay across the trunk of the car , finally slithering down it into the gutter . |
| 14 | I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed . |
| 15 | Regardless of the general press of humanity , a funeral procession was attempting to pass down it from the other end . |
| 16 | The 1987 Green Paper on Education was notable in that it forecast an increase in the number of students in HE in the 1990s . |
| 17 | ‘ The same gentleman ’ persuaded her not to put her name to the pamphlet for fear of the ‘ Malice ’ of men who ‘ greedily … suck in anything to the prejudice of A Woman ’ . |
| 18 | He claims he keeps tripping over something on the ground . |
| 19 | I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end . |
| 20 | Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I persuaded him to sell me the rights to manufacture the Seven and I took over everything except the Lotus name . ’ |
| 22 | There 's fear hanging over everybody with the local government review there 's going to be mass redundancies . |
| 23 | ‘ A friend of mine , Peter Matthews from Dublin , came off one in the Isle of Man in May and fell on his head and is just getting over it now . |
| 24 | It takes on something of the character of an idiom . |
| 25 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 26 | And here give up ourselves in the full bent To lay out service freely at your feet , To be commanded . |
| 27 | They were forming up one below the other , skis parallel to the hill . |
| 28 | In the buildings with a number of storeys they frequently used a different order on each storey , whilst the columns were lined up one above the other and the entablatures acted as string courses . |
| 29 | The interior is in a poor state but much of the four tiers of the exterior arcade walling is intact and illustrates clearly the Roman building method of using arch and order , with the entablatures continuing in unbroken horizontal bands round the whole amphitheatre and the columns lined up one above the other . |
| 30 | Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council . |