Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We was on about rats the other day at work cos Jackie was saying on her way cos her husband works in ooh God !
2 There was a programme on about trailers the other night as well .
3 The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy .
4 My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time .
5 A great remedy in croup for sensitive children who have been exposed to cold air or dry cold winds and have come down with croup the following morning ( see also Aconite and Spongia particularly ) ; worse ( < ) morning and evening .
6 Once you come into contact with the other side you can drop down into command the individual tanks and engage in fast armoured conflict — the controls here do take some getting used to , although you can opt to assign either the driving or firing to the computer .
7 Being in with the gang did n't stop you getting hit but it meant that the Corporals might think for one second before lifting their fists Along with Mike the Rhodesian , Marius , Robert from Oberammergau and Chris , there was myself and a Frenchman called Tignet .
8 Exports brought in US$815,800,000 , down from $881,000,000 the previous year , with imports rising slightly to $1,082 million .
9 He reported that export earnings in 1989 had reached only $92,000,000 , down from $102,000,000 the previous year , mainly due to a fall in world prices for prawns and cashew nuts , which accounted for 67 per cent of export revenues .
10 ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield .
11 Cottle obliged his impractical friends with his habitual amused indulgence , and having sent Coleridge ‘ all that he had required , and more ’ , rode down to Clevedon the following day to pay his respects in person .
12 When we came down to breakfast the other guests were so absorbed in some news in the morning papers that they forgot the usual ragging of newlyweds .
13 Civilians could be brought in to staff the front counter at Darlington police station in order to release three officers for beat duty .
14 CIVILIANS could be brought in to staff the front counter at Darlington police station , the town 's top officer has revealed .
15 I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house .
16 He rose , flashing down at Harry the easy , sidelong smile of a born conspirator .
17 The chase down at Chertsey the previous night had not lasted long .
18 The army trucks had passed through in convoy the previous evening , and any new fact or assumption about the happenings of the clinic 's ruins were now conversational gold-dust .
19 To do this it is useful to think through in detail the daily routine of the client , what he/she can manage , and where the gaps are .
20 The fat-coated grit , which contains a wormer , is scattered as soon as the shooting season ends in November right through until April the following year so that worm build-up is stopped .
21 Piet Marais , Minister of Administration , Education , Culture and Manpower ( i.e. with responsibility for white education ) , took over in addition the overall Ministry of National Education , previously held by Pienaar .
22 Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana .
23 Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time .
24 The main time may well be from harvest through to April the following year , but netting is in fact selective because the size of the mesh allows small rabbits to escape — to be netted some other time when they have grown bigger .
25 Over on ITV The Incredible Hulk was going green long before it was fashionable and keeping clothing manufacturers in business by splitting his shirt every week .
26 Nevertheless I arranged to drive over to Strondonald the following Saturday afternoon and join him for tea .
27 Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals .
28 And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side .
29 My head fell off in bed the other night ,
30 It was essential to get as much flying time as possible , for John was off to Wildenrath the following day and it would have been almost impossible to arrange another date to carry out the all-important conversion .
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