Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's in there and you 're out here , carrying on for the children 's sake . |
| 3 | and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her . |
| 4 | Within two minutes Mike Hall put Peter Dods in for the Barbarians ' third try , and another four followed in a procession interrupted by one for Newport by John Thomas . |
| 5 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 6 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 7 | Then he made 38 runs in good time as Northern cashed in against the champions ' depleted bowling resources . |
| 8 | This required the ATB staff to have a good knowledge of the family situations of wives attending courses and to arrange course times that fitted in with the families ' needs and routines . |
| 9 | The new nanny , a reassuring figure in her brown Norland uniform , came in with the children 's coats and Victoria automatically dropped the conversation . |
| 10 | Then , by watching and joining in with the children 's play , the balance of new and old can be altered as their interests change , without having everything in the water at once . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the Sports-channel package consists of 17 weekly , one-hour highlight shows , with the national feed on Saturday mornings at 10am ( wedged in with the children 's cartoons ) . |
| 12 | That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda . |
| 13 | I now felt far more confident and comfortable knowing that I could refuse to go along with the guards ' antics if they really upset me . |
| 14 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |
| 15 | Proud parents Olwyn and Brian Linighan will be coming from home town Hartlepool for the big match along with the brothers ' 12-year-old sister Gemma . |
| 16 | On Aug. 28 , the Interior Minister , Daouda Rabiou , made a statement on national television apparently going along with the men 's action , and the government subsequently seemed powerless to do otherwise . |
| 17 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 18 | On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt . |
| 19 | Down in the photographers ' pit , a battalion of WWF security gentlemen keep the writhing , crowd-surfing mob back by redirecting those two-minute messiahs that get passed too close to the barrier . |
| 20 | It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , ‘ the earoles ’ are the ‘ respectable ’ students who obey the rules , get the better jobs but remain low down in the schoolchildren 's own counter-culture . |
| 22 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 23 | She looked down on the men 's masks and costumes , listening to their chatter , and stayed silent . |
| 24 | The sun was high in the sky and beating down on the mourners ' heads . |
| 25 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 26 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 27 | Native rapture at the tour is revealed in the columns of the Ceylon Sportsman , which reported its every detail down to the Australians ' results in social terms of tennis and golf . |
| 28 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 29 | At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen . |
| 30 | It 's all down to the Trees ' happy marriage of some notable individual virtuosity to a clear shared vision of where his multi-layered trip is headed . |