Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " 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 | ‘ Charles the Cheesemonger ’ now moves to the centre of our stage ; a very significant actor in the little drama , too , since he , and he alone of his generation of the Titford family in Frome , was to father sons who would in their turn pass the name down through the 19th into the 20th century . |
| 10 | It does not have this appearance , however , and it may simply be a copy that updates but generally reproduces one that was written in about the 1270s by or for Richard of Haldingham . |
| 11 | We shoot down into the rapid as if fired out of a cannon . |
| 12 | The man holding Connelly 's arm pushed it forward , forcing it down onto the largest of the electric rings , holding it there . |
| 13 | It was out with the old and in with the new for the start of the speedway season in Swindon . |
| 14 | The guys at New Deal filled us in with the latest on Harrow skatepark . |
| 15 | Sorta linking this in with the Manc of the Day stuff … who remembers the BBC2 program that ran nearly half the season … |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | sing along with the best of them . |
| 18 | road can now be lifted , er along with the consequent with the planning guide , with no less than one hundred householders suffered er over recent months . |
| 19 | Sadly , church people have often so dismally failed to get along with each other that they are powerless to get along with the needy in the world . |
| 20 | At Christmas and Easter records are printed over the next three working days ready for collection by students on the first day of term along with the two to three hundred letters from the Assistant Dean . |
| 21 | Accordingly we would have to play along with the British for the time being , and take the beating which inevitably results through our association with an ally whom the Egyptians and other Arab states hated as imperialists . |
| 22 | El grip has been discarded , along with the last of the Band-Aids . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 25 | Mark Moncrieff gave Gala a lifeline when he raced in from the 22 for a try which Jim Maitland converted . |
| 26 | ‘ But why should he come down in the dead of night ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 30 | ‘ It looks as if it is probably down to the two of us , ’ said Grindley . |