Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Judith Billingham said yesterday : ‘ Wales is one of the highest drinking regions of the UK and about half way up the league table for Europe . |
| 2 | ‘ After that scramble up the cliff ? |
| 3 | You ca n't solve one little corner , one little technical hiccup so you 'll throw a hundred years of decent work out the window and replace it with sci-fi fantasies . |
| 4 | But it 's still a lot of fun hunting out the highlights , which include a special room with toys and dolls . |
| 5 | you were funny with that wheelbarrow out the front , out the back here this afternoon |
| 6 | The Octopus is a device which plugs into MIDI processors and the like , but also plugs into switch sockets on amps like the Carvin ; clever circuitry allows the Octopus to combine a patch change on the processor with basic switching on the amp . |
| 7 | Apart from a few nouns which allow a choice of singular or plural concord ( e.g. The committee is/are considering the question ) , the choice of singular in English rules out the possibility of plural reference by default , and vice versa . |
| 8 | To the circle of the ‘ head ’ add the heart shaped facial discs that are so characteristic of this owl and from this work out the eye position . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They look at each other down the aisle . |