Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Erm I think it would be nice if the grammar were checked from , we promised to give high priority in responding , surely we can give priority to responding , and as a small point , I was gon na go on about the most important road which of course is Breadfield Street |
| 3 | As he did so , the three fire tenders roared in through the newly created gap . |
| 4 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 5 | In Through the Out Door , a performance by the Mockbeggar Theatre Company , takes place at Trimdon Colliery Community Centre on February 28 at 7pm . |
| 6 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 7 | It also weighs in as the most comfortable waterproof jacket I 've worn . |
| 8 | That tour has , of course , gone down as the most exciting series of the century . |
| 9 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 10 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 11 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 12 | Since the disease is heterosexually transmitted in Africa , the group which has come in for the most blame for its rapid spread have been the many poor women who have been supporting themselves in Nairobi through commercial sex . |
| 13 | Secondly , the championship itself was especially rich in first-class drivers : Ferrari , his chief rivals , had Niki Lauda and Clay Regazzoni as its main drivers ( with Reutemann filling in for the grievously injured Lauda at Monza ) , and Lauda , far more than Hunt , was at the very peak of his form , the peak of Lauda 's form being , together with Alain Prost 's , the summit of racing artistry . |
| 14 | A pleasant surprise so early in the day : Lucy had style , from well-cut red-gold hair down through the subtly tailored suit , to the jaunty tap-tap of grey suede sub-stilettoes . |
| 15 | You ca n't see it but that 's where it 's generated in between the in between those two . |
| 16 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 17 | The implacable opposition of employers had forced wages down despite the most determined efforts of the trade unions . |
| 18 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 19 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 20 | On shore , she rubs her down with the exotically striped blanket , waits until she stirs again , and helps her back into the clothes . |
| 21 | At the base of each clump , the stems are tightly packed , but there is just enough flexibility in the stems to allow all manner of tiny beasts to push their way down into the relatively mild and ( most importantly ) dry centre . |
| 22 | The Rifleman brushed aside their questions , going instead to the main staircase which led down into the brightly lit chaos of the entrance hall where a throng of officers demanded their horses or carriages . |
| 23 | Yanto asked , as they climbed down into the half empty hold of the ‘ Marit ’ . |
| 24 | But he returned to Grenada to throw his lot in with the mostly light-skinned urban middle class to which he only half belonged . |
| 25 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 26 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 27 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 28 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 29 | Officers wore scrimshaws as jewellery along with the most noble , holy decorations incorporating tiny slivers of the Emperor 's own armour from aeons ago , prior to the time when that Divine Immortal was prisoned in his prosthetic golden throne . |
| 30 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |