Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then marooned on her black flesh , two circles round her throat , and her chin pointing at the ceiling like the toe of a boot on a corpse , one arm bent backwards , nothing on except the slacks around her ankles , but no way in , at least none that he could find , and the cheap carpet burning his elbows and his knees , and sleep beginning to ooze from her ridged lips . |
| 2 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 3 | The antler and noose would be used in the mock execution of the Morrisman , and the wild jig would bring everyone on to the green , laughing and screaming in the hot , summer night … |
| 4 | So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed . |
| 5 | One minute to go and the Director wishes everyone down on the floor good luck , and in time-honoured tradition Verity Lambert leans forward and wishes the Director good luck . |
| 6 | Wise and Newell scored in each half as England demonstrated the simple virtues of producing accurate crosses and getting someone on to the end of them . |
| 7 | ‘ I told him we were thinking of putting someone on to the story , and needed to know if it was worth following up . |
| 8 | ‘ Lee 's got this idea , ’ said Lee 's Mum , ‘ that if he lets Caspar out , someone down at the farm in the village will shoot him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd better go and tell someone up at the camp that she 's come round . ’ |
| 10 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 11 | A guy all washed up , not someone out of the top ten . |
| 12 | In the vicinity of a road bridge , which spanned the line near Ashton Moss South Junction , about 200 yards away to the south , the signalman at Ashton Moss North Junction box also became aware of someone out on the track whom he took to be trespassing . |
| 13 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
| 14 | ‘ Or you could throw someone out into the Connaught Tunnel . |
| 15 | there 's someone out in the woods ! |
| 16 | You can begin to bring someone back to the present if you can gradually get them to remember events in their life nearer to the present day . |
| 17 | There 'll always be someone around at the places described here and the grumpiness that seems to infect so many British crags these days has n't spread here yet . |
| 18 | I 'll send someone round for the lap-top now . ’ |
| 19 | Because we may well have somebody down at the scene , who 's in actually fact seen four blokes in white suits take away six plastic sacks . |
| 20 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |
| 21 | I also have seen in Oldham near where I live , where an MP was imposed on that was held by Lamont for twenty two years , lived in Aberdeen I think it was , came to Oldham once a week to do his surgery and they put somebody in from the T N G. |
| 22 | I thought you might like to send somebody over in the van and pick a bottle or two up and you can have a party in the studio after your show . |
| 23 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 24 | And if you look at the bottom of that table , somebody up to the age of thirty nine , will pay two percent of their premium erm , for the waiver of premium benefit . |
| 25 | To me , sexuality is romance and love and poetry and beauty , not picking somebody up on the street and using each other then telling them to fuck off and burning them with a cigarette . |
| 26 | There was nobody out in the street looking suspicious . |
| 27 | Last week for instance , we had somebody out on the motorway interviewing the site workers , but we also want to hear from people in the local communities , around Banbury , around Bicester , and found out what they feel about the motorway , because it 's going to have an enormous impact on the area . |
| 28 | and they fetched somebody out of the street , this was , this was in er Worcester this was |
| 29 | In 198l there was a government White Paper entitled New Training Initiatives which set out the aims of these schemes : to develop skill-training , to provide further education or work-related training for everyone up to the age of 18 , and to offer adults the chance to update their skills . |
| 30 | I pulled the short straw and could not drink as I had the job of getting everyone up in the morning and doing the first two hours driving . |