Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva needed the knowledge of that power beyond her own to cling on to over the next few months . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you , ’ Markby asked patiently for about the third or fourth time , ‘ intend to make her fall ? ’ |
| 3 | Lee awoke lying on the top of a green , green mountain , being looked down upon by the largest face in the whole world . |
| 4 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
| 5 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 6 | The words came mumbling up from beneath the bent head . |
| 7 | The easiest way we can get back into the Social Chapter is to accept Maastricht , without Maastricht there is no Social Chapter , with Maastricht we can opt back in to the Social Chapter . |
| 8 | We watched as the kite swept across the valley , ascending so high that it was just a speck in the distance , and then swooping gracefully over the horizon , to appear again from behind the next hill . |
| 9 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 10 | That this necessity of distributing social labour in definite proportions can not be done away with by the particular form of social production , but can only change the form it assumes , is self-evident . |
| 11 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
| 12 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 13 | The unpredictability of the man was more than made up for by the heady feeling of surrendering to life at its sweetest and most bright . |
| 14 | That 'll mean less business for the animal crematorium — but its owners say that 'll be more than made up for by the increasing number of people who are choosing to have their familly pets cremated . |
| 15 | The smaller number of A and C allowances was more than made up for by the greater number of B and D allowances . |
| 16 | The out of centre position is made up for by the excellent rates Amsterdam Travel Service have specially negotiated at this hotel . |
| 17 | In the enlightenment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , scientific medicine finally struggled out from beneath the dead hand of classical authority . |
| 18 | I came out at at the wrong time . |
| 19 | " It 's all right , " he conceded as they came out from between the decaying buildings and the green hoardings , " but … " he smiled and looked at Slater , " do n't give up your day job . " |
| 20 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 21 | Discovery of the micro-organic causes of disease and the mode of their transmission had opened up a domain which ‘ to the minds of our immediate ancestors seemed almost outside of the knowable ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you know how many firms of bloody architects I 've traipsed round to in the past two months ? |
| 23 | For the present it deals only with with the two expeditions that attract most excitement : Bosnia and Somalia . |
| 24 | His head nodded up from among the pink clover flowers . |
| 25 | After a few moments , the dancers from the previous number could be seen filing out from behind the golden curtain , having exited on the far side of the stage ; their faces were slack and tired , their breathing hard . |
| 26 | And this little weird group existed in the seventeenth century , never numbered more than about two hundred , and dwindled in number , and was supposed to have died out in about the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Some events to look out for in the coming year . |
| 28 | Here are some points that Lloyds Bank suggests you look out for in the small print . |
| 29 | But let's have one day we can look back upon in the lean years to come . ’ |
| 30 | Finally , we 've got to bring the players back to earth a bit , but two absolute cracking games to look forward to in the next couple of weeks ; Oldham next week , probably the best footballing side in the second division , and away to Swindon the week after , so still a lot to look forward to although disappointment at going out of the Cup . |