Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fix around the rocket with royal icing : one at the base , one half way up the main part of the body , and one at the very top . |
| 2 | All my notions — notions of good or evil , of pleasant and unpleasant , of funny and serious , of ugly and beautiful are essentially middle class notions ; my taste in books and food and clothes , my sense of honour , my table manners , my turns of speech , my accent , even the characteristic movements of my body , are the products of a special kind of upbringing and a special niche half way up the social hierarchy … to get outside the class racket I have got to suppress not merely my private snobbishness , but most of my other tastes and prejudices as well . |
| 3 | He slipped through the open toilet door and saw Lee standing half way down the long , flagged passage . |
| 4 | Demirel maintained that " when putting this fire out the important thing is to approach the regional people with sympathy and affection " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Our personalities are different , and we rub each other up the wrong way almost immediately . |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'd have to try and er see if I 've got any of those bills anywhere , I know that that book 's upstairs cos erm , we did that cupboard out the other day and I found all the photographs all our old photographs in a box , but the box had fallen to bits , so |