Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We was on about rats the other day at work cos Jackie was saying on her way cos her husband works in ooh God ! |
| 2 | There was a programme on about trailers the other night as well . |
| 3 | In between performances the crew efficiently prepared the way for the next act . |
| 4 | In between rapids the river flows placid and serene . |
| 5 | The duo took to their heels after getting caught — along with headliners The Prodigy — in a 20-mile traffic jam around the site . |
| 6 | Looked like they were just going to have to get along with things the way they were until their time was up . |
| 7 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
| 8 | The day glows phosphorescently ; snow is coming down in chunks the size of a young child 's hand . |
| 9 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 10 | The kitchen was a huge stone cavern with an open fireplace , the size of a small room , beside which logs were piled so that she could see herself ( but certainly not Hugh ) barbecuing thick steaks on an iron grill , turning them over with tongs the size of a medieval weapon . |
| 11 | Owen took over from cartographers the convention that where outlines are unknown one should just dot them in ; so his pictures of fossil bones show conjectural restoration of broken or lost pieces . |
| 12 | In the 1830s they were being criticized for despoiling ‘ the crystalline beauties ’ of the local caves , or in other words bearing off as trophies the stalactites and stalagmites . |
| 13 | They earn their bread reckoning up for investors the risk of default . |
| 14 | As new ideas come up during preparations the chart will help you assess their potential within the overall strategy . |
| 15 | THE Limit has teamed up with chart-toppers The Shamen to launch a truly wicked competition . |
| 16 | For the moment , she would have to put up with things the way they were . |
| 17 | He emphasized that the laws opened up to Jews the possibility of their separate existence within Germany in all spheres of life , and renewed the command forbidding all ‘ individual actions ’ against Jews . |
| 18 | The agreement ( i ) conferred land rights on ethnic Indians living in the eastern Amazonian department of Beni , covering the Isiboro Sécure el Iviato National Park and 170,000 hectares of the central forest of Chimanes ; ( ii ) established that a multiparty commission would be set up , composed of government and indigenous Indian representatives and others from " respectable institutions " , to draft a new Law for Indigenous Indians of the East and Amazonia ; ( iii ) established that timber merchants in the central Chimanes forest had to end their operations by Oct. 31 , 1990 , when contracts to cut timber would not be renewed ; and ( iv ) made provision for a further multiparty commission to be set up to police the agreement . |
| 19 | Because no matter how much you warn them , they 'll probably find out about wasps the hard way . |
| 20 | The 1900 Guide to the Great Siberian Railway marked out for travellers the important stations in these new trading networks . |
| 21 | It is sad that such talent and thought should create such a nightmarish and harrowing depiction of mental handicap , which left viewers saddened and stunned by what they saw , and may have put back for years the progress towards a real understanding of mental handicap among the general public . |
| 22 | A conscious decision is needed to get government out of things the private sector does better and to concentrate government on the basic things that only governments can do . |
| 23 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 24 | When the poachers ran out of stones the chase began … . |
| 25 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 26 | I 've , certainly had no a , excuse me , no adverse comments back in terms the vision screening etcetera , itself as er , people have sort of responded to it seems to have had a so something which will be quite good sort of go going along in the right spirit . |
| 27 | So I asked them if they needed anyone to help out on Saturdays The guy behind the counter said , we do as it happens but you 'll have to speak to Malcolm when he comes in . |
| 28 | The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people . |
| 29 | Its funny you know , sometimes when I 'm out at schools the kids will come up to me and say , ‘ Do you have to go to work now ? ’ |
| 30 | The Department of Electrical Engineering , together with partners in Italy , Germany and Belgium , have developed training material for universities throughout Europe , passing on to others the benefits of Edinburgh 's first-rate research facilities in microelectronics . |