Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Friends and relatives tell me I should have stopped by now , and I know I do n't want to carry on through the toddler years . |
2 | The raising of money for the Building Fund went on through the war years and many heroic efforts were made . |
3 | A fierce battle is now on for the constituent firms across Europe , the Pacific basin and Canada . |
4 | One of the worst incidents involved the shooting on March 11 of 19 Hindu engineers at a textile factory in Harkishanpura which had defied orders by Sikh militants to close down during the state elections in February [ see p. 38762 ] . |
5 | The draught coming in through the ventilation ducts made it tremble continuously . |
6 | He did n't mind losing his board and slogging in through the breaking waves . |
7 | They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors . |
8 | When two police cars raced in through the school gates she hid behind a wall . |
9 | He went in through the school gates when he were five |
10 | Tig was standing by the gate to the enclosure , staring in through the earth walls , his dream-filled mind on other things than the old shaman . |
11 | Around eight o'clock the sound of distant brass bands can again be heard wafting in through the bedroom windows . |
12 | A soft light was flooding in through the tower windows . |
13 | Passengers actually changed into their pyjamas and settled down for the night bunks or convertible seat-beds complete with sheets and blankets . |
14 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
15 | Stephenson also sends Durham Edition down for the Food Brokers Ferrero Rocher Handicap Chase but due to defections the weights go up 14lb and he is topweight with 11st 10lb . |
16 | I was just going to make a quick comment if I may on Oxfam , because I noticed that they 're down for the street collections and for the flag day , now next year 's their fiftieth anniversary , so I think it 's quite appropriate next year , but I do , my own view is , that we will get , we ought to get one comprehensive list of all these organisations , for both the street collections and the flag days , with an indication in the column of whether it 's flag day they 've gone for or a street collection , so that we can identify that sort of situation . |
17 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
18 | Once the eagles had got used to the return of Minch they settled down for the summer months . |
19 | Solicitors ( subject to very limited exceptions ) alone have the right to brief counsel , who will be called in as the occasion demands to give specialist advice , to draft documents or to act as advocate in the higher courts . |
20 | Air pumped in as the warning sirens died away . |
21 | The congealing blood from the severed arteries of the snow-soaked head drenching the carpet and seeping down between the floor boards . |
22 | There is no substitute for actually practising a bargaining activity and role playing is a useful method used in off the job courses . |
23 | This and other theatres elsewhere were at their peak when the gentry came in for the Quarter Sessions ; for wives and marriageable daughters , there were the balls and concerts of the Assembly Rooms specially built at the back of the George Hotel . |
24 | A hunting shark closing in for the kill homes in on the body electricity given off by its victim . |
25 | ‘ It 's my dream to get a goal at the Bridge , to knock one in for the home fans , ’ he said . |
26 | That 's why Chris came in for the baby clothes . ’ |
27 | And by the way , I have an appointment in the city around eleven , so I may not be back to stand in for the dinner breaks . |
28 | And , imagine all that loose change brought in for the gambling machines bouncing high like metal sparks . |
29 | ‘ He 'd track me down through the credit cards I use , ’ she said . |
30 | We portage the bridge , cross the canal , into the mill stream , crash down through the slalom poles , do n't quite make the sharp lefthand bend yet again and pull into Newbury . |