Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 2 | A guy all washed up , not someone out of the top ten . |
| 3 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 4 | Great cheers went up when a hit was scored , or when the police dragged someone out on the opposite side . |
| 5 | Marlin had given them both a detailed description of the assailant , and instructions to let nobody up to the second floor without Ms Odell 's permission , and even then they were to accompany the visitor to the apartment door , and escort them out if his guest chose not to see them . |
| 6 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 7 | and you so far out and then you drove another one in to the next chamber . |
| 8 | Two days later he tells me : ‘ It 's like they want to copy everything down to the smallest detail . |
| 9 | No up the top , third one down on the right hand side . |
| 10 | Just lob one down through the open top of the cab , will you ? ’ |
| 11 | I checked everything in at the left-luggage office in Liverpool Street station , and then went off to make a couple of telephone calls . |
| 12 | What happens in practice is often something in between the two extremes outlined here . |
| 13 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 14 | Waqar , relieved after only one over with the new ball , came on for the 17th over and soon caused umpire Shepherd to scowl as he bounced the ball into Atherton 's left arm and Smith 's helmet . |
| 15 | But yeah , I mean , there was so so many inconsistencies on , on the Irish witness side , you know , like what , what matey said I was , I was running out and all of a sudden I felt a pain from here on those fuck it , he 's up there , got big forearms , and big sort of muscle that size , that 's really wasted this side even after twenty years , it must of about and apparently one matey got shot in the back running away , oh no five out of the thirteen got shot in the back , which again does n't fucking mean any thing , you know that 's , but I said if there 's I R A supporters there and that , you telling me you seen where your comrades have fucking get shot , you 're not , you 're not gon na try and pick up his weapon and stuff I mean like , it was just a perfect opportunity to , to get one over on the British Forces and I , I said I do n't think yet the para 's were entirely blameless , but then again I do n't think they ever have been in any of their fucking |
| 16 | But the new Act requires the keeping of expensive records — from the time of the first gift of over £1,000 till death carries one off to the happier place , where neither thieves nor the tax-gatherers break through and steal . |
| 17 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 18 | A state enterprise may be able to manoeuvre among the diverse pressures on it , playing one off against the other ( Levy 1987 ) ; what Feigenbaum ( 1982 : 113 ) refers to as ‘ corporate manipulation of the state ’ . |
| 19 | Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated . |
| 20 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 21 | One up for the Phyllosan * set |
| 22 | Well I I I would prefer to perhaps follow this one up in the closed session later but erm . |
| 23 | A yellow and a pink one up in the same plant . |
| 24 | Hereford were hoping to be the giantkillers against Wimbledon … it takes something special to stop Vinny Jones and his men … one up from the first leg … the premiership side took control of this one with an early goal from Neal Ardley … |
| 25 | We found the gypsies about their business : Zylpha washing clothes in the beck , old Katie mending a torn jacket , Jake dismantling two old bicycles and trying to make one good one out of the spare parts , and Rosie , the little riddle-me-ree girl , splashing naked in the water . |
| 26 | After all it is the one out of the six that we 've spent on might be significant in itself . |
| 27 | One out of the 18 drug users who seroconverted suffered from oesophageal candidiasis at the time of seroconversion . |
| 28 | So did Metastim capsule when I finally managed to fumble one out of the tiny pouch in my belt . |
| 29 | Mr Slavicek was out of Prague that week , and there was no one out of the remaining 449 employees who had the authority to give one black-and-white photograph to a local newspaper . |
| 30 | I went to my bosses and told them that , in The Wedding Present , there was another one out of the same rough balloon with the potential to be a long-lasting , album-selling , international act . |