Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 2 | Emma Thompson will continue her rise in Remains of the Day and Much Ado About Nothing . |
| 3 | And secondly a lot of er a number of consultants want to leave their bonuses in to accrue during the year . |
| 4 | And I 'd got all me bits , different books out preparing for the crucifixion . |
| 5 | He took a deep breath , then another , like a diver about to plunge into the depths , and nodded . |
| 6 | ‘ Stay where you are , Judy ! ’ she cried , as she saw Judy on her hands and knees about to crawl under the wire to Mandy 's rescue . |
| 7 | First , fold the napkin in half diagonally , then bring the left and right-hand corners up to meet at the apex ( pic 1 ) . |
| 8 | A second lorry driver Peter Walling later saw a man naked from the waist up scramble up the river bank but disappear when he saw the lorry . |
| 9 | He looked around and saw Pete about to go out the door . |
| 10 | Dear Lord , he can be stupid , thought Scarlet , as she saw Camille about to respond with the surprised gratification of a matador to whom the bull has blindly turned his flank . |
| 11 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 12 | It was fairly clear that there was going to be some smuggling as well but , even allowing for the often-repeated story that other ships lay over the horizon and sent boats in to add to the stock on board the single ship , the net profits from the ship could hardly have been much more than twice those of the slave-trading . |
| 13 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |
| 14 | Lucy says ’ when George died I phoned my agent and said give me three weeks off to get over the physical shock . |
| 15 | Phoebe dealt with Maggie 's immediate needs and took her trousers off to soak in the bathroom . |
| 16 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 17 | She could feel the enchantment in the words , the song from thirteen years back doubling with the fierce bewitchment of the moment — her eyes were dulling , the smell of the sea overcoming her , her mind sinking away as if into deep water . |
| 18 | And he said no , buy a badge now with a dog 's head on depending on the breed of dog you 've got , and it says on it I live here . |
| 19 | She put her name down to speak in the great debate about the state of the English Faculty that was held in the University Senate ; and in the Cambridge University Reporter for the 18th February , 1981 , occupying a column and a half of small print , sandwiched between contributions from two of the University 's most distinguished professors , you may find Robyn 's impassioned plea for a radical theorization of the syllabus . |
| 20 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
| 21 | It 's a very stiff exam I must admit , when I look back on it , and we all had a a day off to go to the at or the Grammar school , sit this exam er and since I never heard anything I 'm assuming I failed . |
| 22 | I phoned up and I got phone up to ask for the information right ? |
| 23 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 24 | I allowed my eyes to travel slowly up the length of the chimney breast , tilting my head back to take in the upper reaches , and my hat fell off . |
| 25 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , with many teachers engaged in the fifty mile protest , hundreds of youngsters used their day out to protest at the green line barrier separating Greek and Turkish communities . |
| 27 | And er yo you get the impression that it 's late in the day , the sky 's a bit stormy and maybe it 's time to be thinking about er getting home and er I get the impression that that person climbing over the stile is sort of on his way home after having a super day out walking in the the Yorkshire Dales or somewhere like that . |
| 28 | The prospect of a gentle ski out disappeared with the arrival of a metre of glutinous snow . |
| 29 | Lewes 's group found the track , and on the second night out stumbled on the signal lights placed by the LRDG . |
| 30 | A wide range of support is available to assist existing exporters and businesses about to export for the first time . |