Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 2 | The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles . |
| 3 | Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning . |
| 4 | It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III . |
| 5 | If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box . |
| 6 | Killion saw the SE5a topple and fall over , but he was too busy fighting off the circling scouts to see if Dangerfield crashed . |
| 7 | The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI . |
| 8 | she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please . |
| 9 | Perhaps as a final word , I might be per better to echo the chief planning inspector Stephen who at this year 's T C P summer school , said , Neither statute or policy rule out the practical application of common sense in unusual or exceptional circumstances . |
| 10 | All you 've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one . |
| 11 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 12 | I could tilt your opinion back the other way with other evidence : about the feminization of poverty , about women 's loss of land , the ravages of the debt crisis — of any crisis — on the most vulnerable : on the women and their children . |
| 13 | Many a time they had drunk thus together , as boys , as youths , as men , and come out under the same starlit sky to walk beside each other up the familiar High Street where every house was a landmark and every face part of a shared history . |
| 14 | Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately . |
| 15 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 16 | and he meet me at Presto and we 'll get your stuff and we 'll get our stuff out the same time erm |
| 17 | But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy . |
| 18 | Course eventually the , I mean , there was er there was Sergeant who was a butcher out the High Street there was Alf was a barber out of the High Street there was er Frank , Frank he was another butcher out of the High Street there was er miners er teachers , I mean there was quite a mixture of occupations in , in the , in the Home Guard . |
| 19 | Money out the same time . |
| 20 | The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms . |
| 21 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 22 | There was also anger over the perceived dearth of true student representatives on the NSF , and over its control of the media . |
| 23 | Many different lines of evidence may be used to flesh out the bare bones of the fossils . |
| 24 | In a sense , from the point of view of the information given-birth , education , career , books written , pious foundations endowed many of the biographies are , mutatis mutandis , not unlike those in Who 's Who.a If the English reader of Who 's Who can flesh out the bare bones almost as a matter of instinct , however , to do the same for the Ottoman ulema is rendered almost impossible by time and cultural distance . |
| 25 | Anecdotes like this help to flesh out the inanimate objects we sell . |
| 26 | To flesh out the red sandstone skeleton — to recreate within the cusped ribs of the cadaver the durbars of Shah Jehan — I again opened Dr Jaffery 's copy of Bernier . |
| 27 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 28 | And why is Ellie dragging her suitcase out the front door ? |
| 29 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |
| 30 | More specifically , they were to support the Conservative party as being the most likely to tum back the revolutionary tide . |