Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
| 2 | From 1165 to 1299 , considerable prison building was being carried on throughout the country with Rochester being among the earliest in I 165 . |
| 3 | Ray had come in from the country bank and we sat with Margaret through the short service . |
| 4 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 6 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 7 | Oh , I said to him look I said she obviously a person that takes no notice , but she lives out in the country . |
| 8 | She had expected Fen to drive back into Little Kirkton , to one of the restaurants there , but instead he headed out into the country . |
| 9 | erm This rainforest festival is actually being carried out over the country . |
| 10 | She knew hat she would be flaunted before the whole of Northumberland if her mother had her way , so , although aware that good form dictated that she should dress down in the country , she took a deep breath and faced the fact that , for their first few outings at least , she would have to wear what Nora called her ‘ dressy ’ clothes . |
| 11 | Does n't that sort of bring in to the country and she 's out in the country and she wants to show it to them that she she 's sort of she 's still fashionable . |
| 12 | In 1874 the Mercury reported that the custom was in decline but ‘ formerly several gangs of ‘ plough-witches ' ’ , ludicrously dressed and with hideous painted faces , came in from the country and visited the tradesmen 's shops , levying ‘ ‘ black-mail' ’ and generally terminating their begging rounds with drunken orgies ' . |
| 13 | She knew that some of the men there were shepherds who came in from the country and that all this must be connected with the kidnapping . |
| 14 | On the other hand we had watched the dismal faces of friends who were resuscitating old cottages and who spent their weekends streaking down to the country to see how the builders were getting on — and they were n't . |
| 15 | Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it . |
| 16 | With the large number of children spread out over the country , it was inevitable that visits were infrequent . |
| 17 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 18 | On the fourth day , they drove out into the country , and were married by an extremely flustered official in a small mairie , some fifty kilometres outside Paris . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Fernando , do you remember that afternoon we drove out into the country and that drunken peasant fell off his mule , right in front of the car ? |
| 20 | Leaving the seaside resort behind them , they drove out towards the country and soon they came to Wakefield . |
| 21 | His own son , William 's son , who was called erm moved out into the country , married an heiress and became a gentleman with a coat of arms . |
| 22 | According to the Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , which still has one of the few non-Romanian journalists operating out of the country , the committee consists of lawyers , artists , and workers , but there is still no sign of a leader or a programme . |
| 23 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 24 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 25 | This Sunday the world-wide Fun for Nature 's Walk for the Rain Forest is taking place , and that there are three hundred walks going on throughout the country , four of them are in Oxfordshire , and Sue May is , is concentrating on the walks at Burford Wildlife Park and also the one at Banbury . |
| 26 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 27 | Nenad Bucin , the representative for Montenegro and a strong supporter of the Serbian cause , similarly declared a boycott of the Collective State Presidency , stating that he could " not reconcile himself to the processes of deliberate disintegration " going on in the country . |
| 28 | The publication of the Government 's Green Paper , health of the nation and all the work going on around the country , on the implementation programme for the community care reforms , means that N C V O must attempt to rebuild its own capacity , to undertake effective policy development work in these areas . |
| 29 | Duncan looked at the men in the back , incongruous in their camouflage as the vehicle hurtled on down the country lane . |
| 30 | She never fussed when he said that he was going down to the country and did n't know when he 'd be back . |