Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on the manager decided that , in recognition of the outstanding and unsung work that embalmers do , he had overcharged them and sent the porter upstairs with a £5 refund for them . |
| 2 | Corbett leaned over and gripped the porter tightly by the shoulder . |
| 3 | Only then will they be able to plead the defence both with full particularity and in the expectation that admissible evidence will become available to support the plea at trial . |
| 4 | Its existence had not been revealed to the defence even after specific requests for unused material and , days before the trial , a specific request from a solicitor for three defendants , for a copy of any video tape . |
| 5 | Wilkinson 's failure to strengthen the defence especially at the centre back position ( and right back through most of last year ) will continue to hinder the team and deny us a claim of genuine championship contenders . |
| 6 | South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval . |
| 7 | Can someone who went say if the midfield started looking for him … ie played it through the defence occasionally for him to run onto ? |
| 8 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 9 | ( With field coding , the interviewer asks an open question but codes the response immediately from a checklist not shown to the respondent . ) |
| 10 | Erm and that I think , the response therefore to your position on financial figures for the contingency fund is if you sort the government out we might be able to . |
| 11 | The response then of these people to reform and negotiation — a resounding No . |
| 12 | He flashed Helen a nice white smile : ‘ We can certainly get the income up on what it is now . |
| 13 | And er in , within that as you know you can actually er go for er the higher income if he wanted to he could push the income up on the hundred thousand say , we could make the income round about seven percent if we wanted to do . |
| 14 | They may potter round at about £70,000 or £80,000 , then a sudden large donation takes the income up to £140,000 . |
| 15 | Generally , once a settlor has put property into a settlement he will have alienated the income therefrom for income tax purposes for the period that it is held in trust . |
| 16 | In the Nusseirat refugee camp soldiers shot Yasser al-Majdalawi , 23 , in the chest after dusk as Muslims broke the daytime fast for the holy month of Ramadan , Palestinians said . |
| 17 | If we do n't , the knock-on effect will be felt by EVERY club in the land , from the Premier through to the Third Division . |
| 18 | If we do n't , the knock-on effect will be felt by EVERY club in the land , from the Premier through to the Third Division . |
| 19 | You can , oh you can have , the tent up on the back lawn if you , if you 're so bothered about camping . |
| 20 | We sort kit , hanging the tent up in a tree to dry and pouring the rucsacs out on to a Karrimat . |
| 21 | Even young Mr Yardley had to be a possibility , if Mrs Doran was right and he had been ‘ hanging around ’ the tent instead of pursuing job opportunities in Burford . |
| 22 | Now , that was a much more orderly occasion with people waiting patiently to enter the tent instead of creating a crush . |
| 23 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 24 | I pitched the tent back from the sea , close to a river . |
| 25 | Take the tent down during the day to minimise ultra-violet exposure from the sun . |
| 26 | Despite the end of the Cold War , military alliances seem likely to continue in some form — the Gulf War demonstrated the inability even of the United States to fund a medium-scale war unaided , and illustrated , again , the limitations to state autonomy . |
| 27 | Course I hung around in the park instead of going to clarinet lessons . |
| 28 | He also proposed to remove Dover House and extend the park through to the river to the north of the offices . |
| 29 | I use the Park both for walking and as a motorist , but more frequently for cycling , and I write on behalf of ‘ Spokes ’ and Edinburgh cyclists in general . |
| 30 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |