Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 2 | ‘ Under the Companies Act , we are entitled to take such action if more than 10 per cent of the shareholders back the application . |
| 3 | It might , it might be though cutting the hedges back a little bit . |
| 4 | Variable wing geometry would cut the dangers down a little … but there are still CATs up there which could tear anything like a conventional aircraft apart . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll get the case out the car . |
| 6 | The next stage as soon as you find time is to sit down with your language helper and play the text back a phrase at a time in order to transcribe it . |
| 7 | That narrows the field down a bit , if it 's correct . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're probably going to set the taxpayer back a couple of million , unless these things are made of plate steel . ’ |
| 9 | That alone would have been worth the scramble round the cliff path . |
| 10 | What we are talking about is moving the responsibility down a stage so that there is a system in place that recognises individual club players and helps them when they move up . |
| 11 | Looking down , he saw Mould pulling the hook out the water for the second time . |
| 12 | Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago . |
| 13 | Callers were told to enter the building up a back staircase , avoiding the downstairs shop , which had no connection with the parlour . |
| 14 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 15 | I had the hair up a bit and I liked Siouxsie & The Banshees — does that make me a goth ? ’ |
| 16 | once when they come up here I had to fetch the telly out the bedroom you know |
| 17 | If you injected cold air you 'd actually chill the furnace down a bit . |
| 18 | The answer is to send the light down a pipe which guides it round corners . |
| 19 | DESPITE AMERICA LETTING THE SIDE DOWN A BIT , SAGE GROUP PROSPERS ON BACK OF NEW PRODUCTS , ACQUISITIONS |
| 20 | I was trying to get the key out the aerial and it would n't come out . |
| 21 | Although Decimax 's current ad shows these switches to be of the keypad variety , our unit used membrane types ; each push of the switch on the plus or minus end gives a corresponding level change ( indicated by the LEDs ) on that particular frequency . |
| 22 | Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set . |
| 23 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 24 | Flicking the switch on the TV is one thing , but such reactions are more serious when it comes to real life situations . |
| 25 | Whitlock activated the switch on the dashboard and the glass slid into place , sealing off the back and front seats of the car . |
| 26 | She heard the rattle of the curtain rings as the blackouts were pulled across , and then the click of the switch on the standard lamp as Bella put on the light . |
| 27 | Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning . |
| 28 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 29 | That 's when you thrust the ring back an to the dead woman 's finger . ’ |
| 30 | Roll a D6 and move the template back the number of inches indicated . |