Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ruth saw it was high on the down river side , castled with a great crag that fell sheer down to the water ; the stone had a dark gleam , like opaque crystal , and was seamed with fissures where she guessed grass and ferns would cling .
2 Make used with the to infinitive
3 A similar expression , inclusive of a per unit tariff t , can be derived for the blenders :
4 And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children .
5 These verbs are of great interest for the present study because , unlike may , can , shall , will and must , they can shift from the bare to the to infinitive , according to the meaning they express in discourse , a fact which lends confirmation to the hypothesis that it is the meaning of the modals which explains their use with the bare infinitive .
6 What I 'm against is the inference that we do n't put any other matters erm that comes up on the subject if it arose prior to the to June .
7 Erm , street , you , you know where that big church is , by the light of big round a about road .
8 soon find their way into the building and settle down to rear their young within the of pipes .
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