Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would stay on through the night although the local doctor had said it was probably useless . |
| 2 | a telephone call will tell you whether you 've the papers wo n't be drawn up but they will be able to tell him on through the phone whether it 's okay . |
| 3 | but I 'm on about the Tuesday after , the Monday after is Easter Monday |
| 4 | I leave my heating on during the night because I do n't want to get up in a cold flat but people I know try to save their money by living in the cold . ’ |
| 5 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 7 | What 's happened is , of course , that as the costs have fallen and the micros have come in through the door so they 're very much smaller , erm it all becomes possible for the whole of society and not for a tiny elite . |
| 8 | I could not go in through the house because of the servants . |
| 9 | Actually I have been something of a clothesaholic recently , do n't tell Derek , but I have to put that fitted wardrobe under lock and key when he 's back and hope he does n't keek in through the louvres because I would n't want him to think I was extravagant . |
| 10 | Af , I thought that first time would be the last , but since this , Steve 's been dropping in during the day while my son and daughter are at work . |
| 11 | Outside , Baker Street was closed down for the weekend except for the Barracuda Club , which had taken over from the original School Dinners restaurant after it moved across the road to usurp the No. 34 Wine Bar . |
| 12 | That mistaken arrogance , too , had let South Africa down off the field since boorish behaviour at receptions had earned the tour party a bad reputation . |
| 13 | They 'd be going up and down between the aisles as well . |
| 14 | She was part of an equation , nothing more , along for the trip because that was the way of it . |
| 15 | Eleven minutes later Ger Burns levelled the scores with a short corner conversion and Clarke put Ireland 2–1 up with a fierce shot which went in off the crossbar after Jimmy Kirkwood had done the initial damage on the stroke of half-time . |
| 16 | All my favourite high street shops seemed to be offering them if you just walked in off the street so I snapped up several . |
| 17 | People should be able to walk in off the street when the mood takes them . |
| 18 | She booked herself in for the works as she put it — a facial and full-body massage . |
| 19 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
| 20 | Just go in for the day till their parents go to work I think . |
| 21 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 22 | Philip ran down through the field so he could n't hear the noise any more . |
| 23 | But with him having on this side , because he 's so blooming awkward he 's been pressing the play switch and of course , so the tapes been turning round , have n't bothered to che , so you know , he was sort of saying well well play that tape and I 'll write their names down of the people as they speak , just the first names , you know so there 's loads of |
| 24 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 25 | Not only that I 've got ta fit in like the children as well . |
| 26 | Run your finger along under the words as you read , so that the child learns that reading goes from left to right . |
| 27 | She wrenched the lid off the biscuit tin and tipped her mother 's letters into the range , stuffing them well down with the poker until there was nothing left of them but black ash . |
| 28 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 29 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 30 | and down with the local tyrants , it 's down with the system as it stands or |