Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is yeah and these stories are passed on about what the British , you know , troops did a hundred and fifty years ago . |
| 2 | All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | My sleeping-bag would hold two — like the one in For Whom the Bell Tolls . |
| 5 | The 76 was a fascinating package of new ideas from the winkle-picker nose to the biplane rear wing and with an electro-hydraulic clutch in between which the driver operated by depressing a small button on the top of the gear lever . |
| 6 | Down below me the surf thrashed and thundered : the Tonga Trench , a precipitous crack in the ocean floor where two of the planet 's great tectonic plates crunched together and were folded downwards to melt again , lay a score of miles away . |
| 7 | Everybody would be sitting there round the table having their Sunday dinner while down below them the kid would think he had the only important world to himself . |
| 8 | Down below us the river was gleaming . |
| 9 | Down beneath them the lights round the swimming-pool shone cheerfully , and the voice of the singer floated up to them in the starlight , as in a natural amphitheatre . |
| 10 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |
| 11 | ‘ It ties in with something the pathologist said . |
| 12 | But how can you pressure Sun when it 's locked in with what the judge himself considers an irrevocable letter of credit to cover the legal bills if Addamax loses ? |
| 13 | The trouble is , I 'm a member of the Dock workers ’ Union as well , and the Brotherhood does n't always fall in with what the Union recommends . |
| 14 | As those developers go bust and along with them the credit unions , larger banks will be goaded to take their weaker brethren over . |
| 15 | Then fragments of memory floated slowly to the surface like debris from a sunken ship , and along with them the aches and twinges of a busy night . |
| 16 | Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time . |
| 17 | The Conservative party will go along with what the Government decide . |
| 18 | But surely Mr Chairman , if , if you want to integrate these people into the family unit they would go along with what the family would normally do . |
| 19 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 20 | It might bring down on me the wrath of Motherdear . ’ |
| 21 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 22 | The pathway down to what the Tremaynes had always considered their private beach was steep and slippery . |
| 23 | Good estates ensure there are shelter belts of trees available ; they feed the deer in winter and shoot the full recommended quota to keep the numbers down to what the ground can support . |
| 24 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
| 25 | The reviewer summed up : ‘ For those who will not hear a word spoken against Churchill in 1940 this will be an infuriating book , as the watch the sharp , black-white chiaroscuro of Chamberlain v Churchill watered down to what the latter would call ‘ a sludgy amalgam ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It comes down to what the council can sell or sacrifice to deal with this big backlog . |
| 27 | Nevertheless when it comes down to it the Beatles and their Apple Corps bear some responsibility for the ridicule now habitually visited on that kind of language and the culture that spawned it . |
| 28 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 29 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 30 | How can my right hon. Friend help to allow my younger constituents personal access to such people , so that they can talk over with them the art forms that they are seeking to promote ? |