Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather to Folly 's surprise , Lisa seemed to have things well in hand by the time she had calmed down enough to return to the Rose Bowl . |
| 2 | Then you dangle something down inside to hook round the lift-up handle of the main window . |
| 3 | When he had finished , and the Adams , too , had been loaded , the Collector settled down calmly to wait for the attack . |
| 4 | I say , ‘ Well , I did n't come down here to look at the scenery . |
| 5 | Just before half-time , Doherty had a strong header well saved , while Johnston nipped in well to get on the end of a Beatty cross only to be forced wide by the keeper . |
| 6 | Now , she hitched herself upright , ejected the cat , and sat down again to think about the refrigerator . |
| 7 | All of a sudden there 's the snow and the ice and when we pulled into the village they got this fl flat roof some of the buildings and the snow must have been about ten twelve feet deep on top of the roofs where they cut a path through through to get to the village . |
| 8 | A wind large enough to make it certain that no Yule feast could be held , and small enough to allow the workmen and their womenfolk and the hall people who were over already to cross to the shore and spend Christmas with a clear conscience at home … |
| 9 | One Harvard client is on record as saying : " I still hold 10000 shares in the Harvard quoted company BURAD Holdings , and , since I have lost all confidence in the dealing room at Harvard , I am still puzzling over how to dispose of the shares without an inordinate amount of emotional effort . " |
| 10 | ‘ She said she was going off somewhere to meditate before the afternoon session . |
| 11 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 12 | It 's , it 's not a , it 's , I do n't add the sheets up together to get to the er top sheet . |
| 13 | A Cabinet committee , expected to be chaired by the Prime Minister , will be set up soon to look at the broadest possible scope of environmental policy , taking in road traffic , housing , agriculture , the rural economy , energy , and industrial development , as well as the obvious ‘ green ’ areas of policy such as planning , waste disposal and pollution . |
| 14 | ‘ When she realised she faced death she said to me : ‘ God wants me up there to look after the children ’ . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not taking you up there to vomit in the Land Rover . ’ |
| 16 | A GAMBLE on Omidjoy , backed from 66-1 to 14-1 for the opener at Leicester yesterday , failed by the narrowest of margins when odds-on Fair Maid Of Kent got up again to lead on the line . |
| 17 | And topped up again to pay for the repair of the flat roof over the kitchen , and the man who had done the work should have been prosecuted for fraud . |
| 18 | We go on now to look at the importance of the dialogue , and the problems which can occur when communication breaks down . |
| 19 | Well let's move on now to try to the briefing . |
| 20 | They also pointed out that there was no room service and Maggie sank back down to sit on the bed and nurse her aching face . |
| 21 | The skep , with some comb still hanging to feed the bees through the cold times , was lifted onto a cloth , the spare bees scooped back into it , and it was wrapped to be carried back down to overwinter in the bee field . |
| 22 | The pool perimeter is also cut back sufficiently to allow for the pool edging . |
| 23 | He took up his claret , drank , and moved to an anecdote which he had found scarcely ever failed and would surely , he was convinced , see him through this supper party as the man of wide travel , wide curiosity , the aristocratic rover who had finally come back home to live by the more profound , more refined things of life . |
| 24 | When I 'd had a bite and patrolled the area , I went back home to sit on the garage roof and have a leisurely wash . |
| 25 | Her hand went back up to tap upon the door . |
| 26 | At [ another ] desk sat Winston doing similar lists in red ink , sipping whisky and soda , getting redder and redder , rising and going out often to glare at the machine himself , hunching his shoulders , bowing his head like a bull about to charge . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I had to come back here to return to the basic me-ness . |
| 28 | I left the industry in the early Seventies and came back here to work at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry . |
| 29 | You came out here to whimper over the fact that you could n't be together in the way that you would like , only you made the unfortunate mistake of running into me instead . ’ |
| 30 | Had they come out here to talk about the murders ? |