Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 2 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 3 | FILE option allows import of any data file in Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets up to version 3.0 , dBase , Symphony , Quattro , ascii or directly from the keyboard . |
| 4 | But it was already obvious that the horn blast had come from elsewhere entirely — not from the Halfling camp or even from the human regiments of the Empire army , but from the fierce goblin Wolf Riders who were hacking and biting at will as Halflings ran hither and thither in blind panic . |
| 5 | The hole extended a foot or so above the level of the ceiling , and then ended . |
| 6 | It was only by craning his neck to a painful degree that he saw that he was suspended in mid-air , a foot or so above the sea . |
| 7 | Dreadnought 's deck was still a foot or so above the tide . |
| 8 | When the water has almost filled the hole , to perhaps a foot or so below the top , there is an audible pause in the proceedings . |
| 9 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 10 | In other parts of the town , a kilometre or more from the vent , the ash fall was thinner and damage proportionally less . |
| 11 | They arranged to meet at half past four at a village a kilometre or so beyond the cemetery . |
| 12 | We got lost in Nuneaton trying to get back on the M6 , and were now heading through Lancashire at dusk , still an hour or more from the border . |
| 13 | Itching will begin within an hour or so of the invasion , and the vigorous scratching induced may well abort the attack . |
| 14 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 15 | The experiment involves injecting 2-DG into methylanthranilate-trained and control chicks , waiting half an hour or so for the 2-DG6P to accumulate , killing the chicks , removing and freezing their brains , and subsequently counting the radioactivity present . |
| 16 | As soon as school was finished we used to rush back to her house and start on our homework immediately , so as to have an hour or so for the passeggiata before going back for supper and finishing off . |
| 17 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 18 | High carbohydrate drinks will help refuel your muscles and will come in handy in the hour or so after the race if you are not able to eat anything . |
| 19 | An hour or so after the game , Dean had been interviewed for Rugby Special at the Parc des Princes . |
| 20 | The evidence for increased transmitter release is strongest for STP , that is from a few seconds to an hour or so after the inductive event . |
| 21 | An hour or so in the fridge is generally enough . |
| 22 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 23 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 24 | An hour or so in the best of company , the bar is open , and all for £3 — what more can we do ? |
| 25 | I used to take a couple of tablets an hour or so before the programme , to make sure there was no spasm during transmission . |
| 26 | and be confident in its ability to forecast future of how it flows , only at that stage then will be the liability or otherwise in the north south bypass be fully known as will also the role to be played by traffic management measures . |
| 27 | Their masters were either dead or absent in a concentration camp , in the Polish army in the West or else in the underground army . |
| 28 | Follow-up research has shown that 95% of all successful course members found at least hourly paid part-time teaching posts either after completion of the course or increasingly during the course . |
| 29 | It can determine that the trustee should be paid a percentage of the value of the assets realised and/or distributed , or by reference to the time spent by the trustee and his staff , and must have regard to the complexity or otherwise of the matter , any exceptional responsibility falling on the trustee , the trustee 's effectiveness and the value and nature of the assets dealt with by the trustee . |
| 30 | Of course , the optimal solution will also depend on θ but , in the case when θ appears only in the coefficients of the objective function or only on the RHSs of the constraints , the techniques of the preceding section can be modified to solve the problem . |