Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He tapped Mandeville gently on the shoulder . |
| 32 | The britzka overhauled Sam and Sarah halfway up the hill from Trouville ; Nora made the coachman pull in and let Sarah climb up ; he and Sam walked beside the horses to the top . |
| 33 | Christie in with the in-crowd |
| 34 | ‘ We 've got to bring C.W. and Sabrina in on the case as quickly as possible . |
| 35 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 36 | Hartlepool Rovers are unchanged for the visit to Northern , but call former Darlington full back David Glendenning on to the bench . |
| 37 | At this the stranger knight grew angry , and he leaned down from his horse and lifted Neva on to the saddle . |
| 38 | In the early years of the republic these were factors of no great consequence , but they have assumed great importance since the movement of the United States on to the world stage in the twentieth century . |
| 39 | The 30-year-old Londoner , son of the late Graham Hill , steered his Canon Williams Renault on to the front row of the provisional grid alongside pole man and team-mate Alain Prost with a brilliantly controlled display of driving on the treacherous Interlagos track . |
| 40 | Middleton finds Rocky on at the Mongolian flicks ; Vickers listens to Elvis and Buddy Holly on a Kazakh collective farm . |
| 41 | Suddenly he decided to take a chance : somehow they would get Therese on to the stage in that ridiculous boy 's costume and let her sing . |
| 42 | They followed Molly on to the launch , hitching up their skirts as she did as they swung over the side , taking their places beside her , feeling strange and excited and apprehensive . |
| 43 | The tone brought Millie on to the floor and standing before Aggie , saying , ‘ I … |
| 44 | In fact , as we shall see , this evidence has proved largely illusory , but the presentation of the gens stage as a real historical one presents Engels right from the first with the theoretical difficulties which were to plague Marxist anthropology afterwards . |
| 45 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 46 | The obvious fact that Event was not working , his instincts to protect his investment , but also the awakening of his latent enthusiasm for the business of running a magazine , all drew Branson deeper into the quicksand which Event became . |
| 47 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 48 | I did , and to my disappointment , I found Edward alone in the library . |
| 49 | This romantic tale casts back to Ruritania especially in the implied distinction between city and country . |
| 50 | On Thursday afternoon , Melissa arrived at the college to find Barney alone in the staffroom . |
| 51 | Your first sight of Reg Varney in On The Buses . |
| 52 | It became Lescar only in the eleventh century , after having been devastated , like other sites in these desirable and prosperous pre-Pyrenean regions , first by the Moors and then by the Vikings . |
| 53 | The man does n't say anything ; he pushes Andy down into the ferns , and gets a hand free and punches Andy in the face . |
| 54 | At one place they visited , Moccas Court , in Herefordshire , home of the Cornwall family , she was able to tell the curator who formerly worked for the Ropner family at Thorp Perrow , near Bedale all about the people whose impressive portraits hung on the walls . |
| 55 | But mum brought Kylie along to the audition as well … and she happened to get it . ’ |
| 56 | And the boxes would even be warm when they landed at Wyre down in the hold of the steamer . |
| 57 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 58 | When she reached the Watermen , Ruth wheeled Lilian in through the side door , calling , ‘ Con — we 're back ! ’ |
| 59 | But it has passed the actual resolution of those problems back to the schools , and has charged schools and LEAs together with the task of reviewing how the curriculum as a whole can best secure the aims of the Act . |
| 60 | ‘ I 'll get you , Butler ’ Blakey in On The Buses |