Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv prt] [prep] the open " in BNC.
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1 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
2 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
3 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
4 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
5 | It was out in the open now , her thoughts of that last hour as she had kept her lonely vigil . |
6 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
7 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |