Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sort kit , hanging the tent up in a tree to dry and pouring the rucsacs out on to a Karrimat . |
| 2 | Canvassers who normally get the forms back after a maximum of four visits to any household are now having to return seven or more times before the people hand back the completed form . |
| 3 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 4 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 5 | Ships are now built in modules rather than built in a whole from the base up in a dry dock , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 7 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 8 | ‘ We go scare the shit out of a drunk ! ’ he said . |
| 9 | ( b ) The battle in practice The first contact between contracting parties will normally be the sending out of a price list or catalogue , or perhaps a potential buyer 's request for an estimate or tender . |
| 10 | Sal sent the sack up on a bight of slack , then came up on a tight rope and the sling . |
| 11 | ‘ A proctologist is an asshole doctor , Thessy dear , ’ Ellen explained , then gave me a smile that would have frozen the heart out of a blast furnace . |
| 12 | He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in . |
| 13 | To make the plait , roll the pastry out to a rectangle 35x28cm/14x11in . |
| 14 | ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy . |
| 15 | Full of hope , I took the watch in to a smart business in the Rue du Rhône , where it was examined by a stately manager . |
| 16 | This was enough for the Home Secretary to send the case back for a fourth hearing to the Court of Appeal , with the recommendation that they summon Mathews as a witness to test his credibility . |
| 17 | ‘ In which time Inspector Cotton , and his minion Sergeant Mack , have bestirred themselves sufficiently to write the case off as a killing during petty larceny ! |
| 18 | ‘ Or make the flat at the back into the kitchen , and rent the basement out as a bed-sitter … ’ |
| 19 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 20 | This first requires the code to be downloaded from the computer out to a dedicated programming unit and transferred into an EPROM or EEPROM , which is then removed and placed into the module under test . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , there were great victories in Eastern Europe , where in 1943–4 the Russians pushed the Germans back along a 1600-kilometre front ( CORE , pp. 69–70 ) . |
| 22 | As Pavel stepped out onto the asphalt , he could see the take off of a Cathay Pacific 747 through the chainlink and across a few hundred feet of grass ; it seemed shockingly , dangerously close , and he turned his face away to look toward the main building . |
| 23 | When damage like this has occurred you should always prune the stem back to a good , vigorous-looking bud . |
| 24 | In mid-December the settlers were forced to leave one of the houses in after a court ruled against the eviction of the Arab occupants . |
| 25 | The next extension from such situations to increase the realism is to show arousing situations in a naturally occurring context , for example by showing the build up to a crime or road accident . |
| 26 | No power to keep the foot up like a normal one . ’ |
| 27 | However , this outlay can easily be offset by letting the apartment out for a brief period during the peak season . |
| 28 | Just take an odd sock , put your hand inside and pull the toe in for a mouth , stick paper shapes on for eyes and nose . |
| 29 | The result is perfect reading for those on the look out for a special Christmas gift for the fishkeeper . |
| 30 | Then Connie would move into the sanatorium along with a lot of legal talent he had lined up to look after his interests — and Connie 's , too , of course — and I 'd head for home with my five hundred . ’ |