Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felipe had gone before Maggie came down for breakfast the next day . |
| 2 | The IDA came in for attack the following day from residents ' associations in both Currabinny and Ringaskiddy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Nothing is wasted and only the dregs are left , charred and thoroughly sifted , by the time the municipal refuse truck comes through at dawn the next day . |
| 15 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 16 | My head fell off in bed the other night , |
| 17 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 18 | I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong … |
| 19 | WFTU split under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949 , when the British TUC and the CIO from the United States ( followed by the AFL ) set up in opposition the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) . |
| 20 | However , any further attempts at a more comprehensive codification to bring up to date the humanitarian controls of war were frozen with the onset of the Cold War . |
| 21 | When he made The Dirty Dozen in 1967 , he failed to turn up to film the final scene , when he and Charles Bronson drive a huge weapons carrier across a bridge . |
| 22 | If he fails to pick up at school the preferred ‘ school ’ language , school will have failed him . |
| 23 | Andy alias GG , Margaret-Nora , Phil-Dame Edna and Graeme-Rab raised over £400 for research into breast cancer by turning up at work the following day in disguise . |
| 24 | At times it is even possible to lay out for examination the intense post-liminal rites and ceremonies of reincorporation required by the police institution as it seeks to draw the marginal mover back into the fold . |
| 25 | ‘ When we stopped at traffic lights , Warren took hold of my hand and said that he was becoming more attached to me and asked me if I would like to go out for dinner the next day . ’ |
| 26 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 27 | Beeney was solid as a rock , dealt with the back pass superbly , and only kicked ONE out of play the whole match . |
| 28 | The views expressed by Julie White and Hilary Patrick leave out of consideration the unfortunate fact that some kinds of serious mental illness may be associated with lack of insight . |
| 29 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 30 | Our view of the pig/human relationship is that the farther out of sight the living pig is , the better — as though the actual animal is an embarrassing stage that pigfeed has to go through on its way to being packaged bacon . |