Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Under the Companies Act , we are entitled to take such action if more than 10 per cent of the shareholders back the application . |
| 2 | It might , it might be though cutting the hedges back a little bit . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 6 | you 've got to take the speakers out the front |
| 7 | And we could n't get half the books out the library because other courses had taken them , we |
| 8 | The Irish Ladies Hockey Union are now considering staging the Cup Final on May 22 and moving the play-offs back a fortnight . |
| 9 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 10 | If he took more staff on and they were say filling up provisions , putting the pies out every day is taking the department forward , it 's an everyday task . |
| 11 | And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit . |
| 12 | The expectation was that IBM Corp would throw everything including the kitchen sink into its fiscal first quarter figures in order to give Louis Gerstner as clean a platform as possible on which to build — but the company unaccountably dressed the figures up a little , by taking a $95m tax credit in the quarter , without which the net loss would have been $380m ; interest charges in the first quarter declined by 12.5% to $305m . |
| 13 | you may need to move the needles back a little by hand to knit the stitches off . |
| 14 | All the routes out the city are very very busy this evening down the Botley Road , up the Woodstock Road , and down the Abingdon Road . |
| 15 | to get the matches out the bedroom . |
| 16 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll let the seams out a little . ’ |
| 18 | I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm |
| 19 | She always has , ever since my Dad was in hospital when he died and the nurses wheeled the flowers out every night . |
| 20 | Is that the ones out the front is it ? |
| 21 | Angalo pulled one of the levers back a bit . |