Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 2 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe this is an old-fashioned viewpoint , but last night I thought something fairly important went on between the two of us … ? ’ |
| 4 | It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins . |
| 5 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 6 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 7 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 8 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 9 | The man holding Connelly 's arm pushed it forward , forcing it down onto the largest of the electric rings , holding it there . |
| 10 | Sorta linking this in with the Manc of the Day stuff … who remembers the BBC2 program that ran nearly half the season … |
| 11 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ I had said — reducing her from an individual to a stereotype , lumping her in with the worst of the cherry berets . |
| 12 | sing along with the best of them . |
| 13 | El grip has been discarded , along with the last of the Band-Aids . |
| 14 | Along with the thousands of appeal letters sent as a result of Amnesty 's campaign , perhaps the clearest direct pressure is being exerted by the Sri Lanka Aid Consortium , made up of donor governments and multi-lateral institutions . |
| 15 | ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 16 | The most significant change in this respect is the slowing down in the 1980s of the decline in urban populations compared with the previous decade ( Champion , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | While murmurs of hope return to the streets of Cardiff , Australian prepare for their 16th international against Wales with coach Bob Dwyer admits : ‘ A win here would go down alongside the best of our achievements while I have been in charge . ’ |
| 18 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 19 | ‘ It looks as if it is probably down to the two of us , ’ said Grindley . |
| 20 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 21 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 22 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 23 | In on the fourteenth of July of nineteen ninety three the defendant took out a summons with a view to having all the outstanding matters resolved and er this summons came before erm deputy master on the twelfth of August nineteen ninety three and he gave various directions including an enquiry in relation to how the surgery premises er ought to be dealt with as in court in the winding up of the partnership and that matter went before Mr Justice long in December and he decided those issues and gave directions in relation to and how the premises are to be sold , the effect of the directions very vaguely , is that the premises have to be offered to the partners , if only one of the partners shows any interest then there is provision in the relevant deed for ascertaining the price and this is put to that partner at that price , if more than one partner wishes to buy the premises then there is provision for a fixing of a minimum figure and then each of the partners has to put in sealed offers er and the premises will be sold to the partner , the former partner who put in the last offer , that broadly speaking I think is the substance of Mr Justice order . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Mr Paddy Ashdown , asked her to reconsider the ‘ shameful example ’ set by her Government 's actions not only in sending the riot police in at the dead of night but in the blanket of secrecy surrounding the appeals tribunals which decided who were refugees . |
| 25 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 26 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 27 | But England fullback Jon Webb does n't mind eating turf as he skids over for the first of his two tries as part of a record-equalling 22-point haul . |
| 28 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 29 | It will only look at the premium status up to the fifteenth of the month , it wo n't take into consideration when so recall 's gone through on the sixteenth of the month . |
| 30 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |