Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos a I I 've got the contracts right in the Body Shop , we got Karen she used to work in Superdrug , and she came in there the other day and I 'm saying , och , do you know Michelle ? |
| 2 | AIDS must have been exceedingly rare before the mid-1970s anywhere in the world . |
| 3 | Drop the anchors overboard in the correct position and the bottles will float , holding the anchor rope on the surface and ready to tie to the punt every time you fish that swim . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Martin 's not coming after school today , his granny Jean 's going to meet him because his mum has to go to Scotland with her work so Trevor has to push the triplets home in the buggy . |
| 6 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 7 | If you do not want to lose the patterns currently in the knitting machine , you can upload them to DesignaKnit and save them on to disk , ready to be downloaded back to the knitting machine when required . |
| 8 | But now the water 's evaporating , killing the tiny fish that brought the birds here in the first place , and as the food source disappears , many birds are dying . |
| 9 | For the Rangoon General Hospital , which will be built on loose sandy soil , Ove Arup proposes to solve the liquefaction problem by laying the foundations deep in the ground , so that the weight of the building will roughly equal that of the soil dug out . |
| 10 | I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light . |
| 11 | You can hardly believe that a few stretchsuits and some nappies can possibly cost as much as they say , but nine months and a lot of shopping trips later , you will have been forced to accept that your new addition has managed to tip the scales severely in the debit direction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We loved our home in the woods down in the lane . |
| 14 | The evidence on which I base it is that , within three weeks of the White Paper being introduced in the middle of this year , there were 15 announcements of changes to the proposals now in the legislation . |
| 15 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 16 | In training though you can still have the same problem erm you know perhaps towards the end of the session you 've probably seen it as and I , I 'm guilty of it myself cos we 're trying to rap on through it as quickly as possible so we get in ya way by six o'clock or that so we break all the rules late in the day |
| 17 | well they have erm people from salons come in to try the products out in the if you go and |
| 18 | If you were n't familiar with them , the roads up in the mountains were treacherous . |
| 19 | Is the Minister aware that when the Unionist party governed Northern Ireland it concentrated heavily on developing the roads only in the eastern part of Northern Ireland ? |
| 20 | This indirectly inspired the Victoria and Albert dockers to discuss setting up a rival organization to Tillett 's and led to a united campaign against the employers later in the month . |
| 21 | She 'd discover he had n't locked the hen-house when she went to let the hens out in the morning . |
| 22 | This is a distinction which has been at the heart of a good deal of post-war curricular reform in the schools both in the USA and the UK ( see , for example , Bruner 1960 ) , and which will be explored further in due course . |
| 23 | ‘ Holding the labia apart in the US market is ‘ quite acceptable' , but not OK in Britain , ’ according to Lawrence . |
| 24 | I have to prove that I can do a better job than the lads already in the side . ’ |
| 25 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 26 | John Lennon , the leader of Her Majesty 's Loyal Opposition , who was briefly a member of an unsuccessful group called The Quarrymen back in the 1960s , was apparently asked if he wanted to reform to appear on the bill . |
| 27 | About 1560 he became a Protestant , as Janequin and Certon never did , and made a four-part setting of the complete Marot-de Beze Psalter in lightly ornamented note-against-note counterpoint with the melodies generally in the highest part ( Paris , 1564 ) . |
| 28 | He put the books back in the drawer and stood waiting for Mrs Hatton to recover . |
| 29 | Since this strategy works outwards from the highest scoring words , it is possible to show ( see Woods 1982 ) that islands always incorporate words which have a density score no greater than the words already in the island . |
| 30 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |