Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Erm I think it would be nice if the grammar were checked from , we promised to give high priority in responding , surely we can give priority to responding , and as a small point , I was gon na go on about the most important road which of course is Breadfield Street |
| 3 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 4 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 5 | It also weighs in as the most comfortable waterproof jacket I 've worn . |
| 6 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |
| 7 | That tour has , of course , gone down as the most exciting series of the century . |
| 8 | The drinkers , drunk as they were , full of glasses of wine , fell back from the man , who , with the rags he wore , had surprisingly clean white underpants — what struck Rab — raised his coat and squatted down as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 9 | A pleasant surprise so early in the day : Lucy had style , from well-cut red-gold hair down through the subtly tailored suit , to the jaunty tap-tap of grey suede sub-stilettoes . |
| 10 | The implacable opposition of employers had forced wages down despite the most determined efforts of the trade unions . |
| 11 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 12 | On shore , she rubs her down with the exotically striped blanket , waits until she stirs again , and helps her back into the clothes . |
| 13 | At the base of each clump , the stems are tightly packed , but there is just enough flexibility in the stems to allow all manner of tiny beasts to push their way down into the relatively mild and ( most importantly ) dry centre . |
| 14 | Yanto asked , as they climbed down into the half empty hold of the ‘ Marit ’ . |
| 15 | But he returned to Grenada to throw his lot in with the mostly light-skinned urban middle class to which he only half belonged . |
| 16 | Alan set up the legal part of it and the political side and I would come in with the more spiritual side of it : the demand for separation from the Irish Presbyterian Church that was operating in cahoots with O'Neill at that time . |
| 17 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 18 | Well , this was hardly the scene she 'd have imagined as the perfect time to wear the dress , but now she silently blessed the premonition which had made her pack it along with the predominantly casual clothes she 'd chosen to take to Sheffield . |
| 19 | Officers wore scrimshaws as jewellery along with the most noble , holy decorations incorporating tiny slivers of the Emperor 's own armour from aeons ago , prior to the time when that Divine Immortal was prisoned in his prosthetic golden throne . |
| 20 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 21 | Every cracker contains a packet of seed along with the more traditional contents . |
| 22 | The purpose of this chapter is to review such developments along with the more mundane business of recruiting new partners and opening new offices generally , and to analyse some of the problems they involve . |
| 23 | Rarer species of snowdrops are being indiscriminately harvested along with the more common ones . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes . |
| 25 | Along with the severely limited tactical options this consigns Match Of The Day to the lower divisions . |
| 26 | The ballad-type songs of the day sung by such as Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Doris Day , Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra , plus the great classical music she had heard from her youth , facilitated Masha Cohen 's overcoming of her personal nightmares , and had become — along with the very important Yiddish music — the natural background to Leonard 's life , too . |
| 27 | This is because it can cope with printing personal details such as customer name , branch sort code and address — along with the magnetically coded cheque/slip number , bank code and account number , included at the bottom of the cheque — a process that has to be carried out in two separate stages using current techniques . |
| 28 | The day progressed and temperatures and humidity rose along with the fiercely contested matches . |
| 29 | The event will go ahead on August 30 , along with the nationally recognised dog show on the Saturday , but the parish council was told the show 's future looked gloomy because of increased charges , particularly those for hiring equipment from Langbaurgh council . |
| 30 | In Freudian terms , I had taken upon myself the typically female neurosis of hysteria along with the typically male one of obsessiveness . |