Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Dwarfs were hard pressed at first , but eventually saw the Orcs off with the help of their formidable cannons . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When they were close enough they threw the ropes up to the men at the front of the crowd , and all of them pushed from behind . |
| 5 | I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky . |
| 6 | The hunger that made Charlie , Charlot , chew the boiled slices of boot , moustache toing and froing under his nose , I understood as well or as little as the hunger of the grown-ups around me , my mother eating the woodworms along with the oats and the silence as everybody stopped to watch her . |
| 7 | His successor , Majorian , apparently overthrew this arrangement , pushing the Burgundians out of the environs of Lyons in 458 . |
| 8 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 9 | He followed the signs out to the airport to the north . |
| 10 | ‘ We have got to do a great deal more about restrictions on motor vehicles and give the cities back to the people . |
| 11 | The fighting continued , spreading off the great curve of the ramparts down into the buildings below . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | He took his purse and emptied the coins on to the table . |
| 15 | So it shoots the notes down into the body better , and the whole instrument resonates . |
| 16 | Setting the briefcase back down , she dug the notes out of the pocket and turned to the last page , smiling rather nastily . |
| 17 | Sam 's brother , Neddy , incurred his wrath one day as he was driving the birds down towards the guns . |
| 18 | Zen held the X-rays up to the light . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Robyn laid the plans out on the grass and knelt beside them . |
| 21 | The black van was parked under a palm tree waiting to take the prisoners back to the Murate . |
| 22 | A French medic was climbing the grassy bank from the sunken road to look at the Officer as I got the prisoners out of the dug-out and back to their previous positions in the hollow . |
| 23 | It is simply something that must be done ; and , in the same way , I had to get rid of some woman , tip the scales back in the other direction . |
| 24 | Under the stress of the All Blacks ' tackling Dewi Morris ' passing let the Lions down at the base of the scrum and his problems were transmitted to the other midfield backs . |
| 25 | It was a long distance down the great side of the hill , through the woods down to the estuary . |
| 26 | We loved our home in the woods down in the lane . |
| 27 | Tim sat up all night once picking the raisins out of the muesli to spoil her breakfast . |
| 28 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 29 | Secure the red numbers on to the side panels with royal icing , and then fix the lifebelts on to the boat in the same way , three on each side and two on the deck . |
| 30 | well they have erm people from salons come in to try the products out in the if you go and |