Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is customary for a Toraja girl who feels amorous to walk alone into the rice-paddies shortly before dawn or after sunset and begin screaming . |
| 2 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 3 | In previous chapters we have seen how the ancient manor of Combsburgh had been partially enclosed as early as the fourteenth century , especially in the areas close to the market town , and how the bulk of the field structure had been established by the late sixteenth century . |
| 4 | A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea . |
| 5 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 6 | Worried and preoccupied people are also vulnerable to accidents , perhaps especially on the roads either as drivers or pedestrians . |
| 7 | Get down to the shops now for the bargain of the century ! 99% |
| 8 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 9 | A rule whose action is basic will appear just like the rules above for the straightforward version . |
| 10 | Yet international trade and the major enterprises were generally in the hands either of the Tsar or of foreigners , and the privileges granted Western entrepreneurs were not withdrawn until late in the century . |
| 11 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 12 | But the blame for its weakness can not be laid directly at the feet either of the takeover or of debt . |
| 13 | She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside . |
| 14 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 15 | I 'd meet up with the others again on top and we 'd descend together . |
| 16 | Even when I played through proxies he must have still known it was me , because one day , 'bout the end of my second year on Mars , I woke up with the blues just like you did . |
| 17 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 18 | I then become rather more hesitant , when I have to face up to the problems particularly of er , women looking after elderly parents , because the burden does seem to fall , as you would know , on the women . |
| 19 | Information technology sales doubled to £92million as a result of the CASE takeover , though it is taking time to bring profitability up to the levels elsewhere in the group . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's so sad because he 's so quick , so experienced and he is the guy who made me raise my own game to come out of the blocks ahead of him . ’ |
| 21 | Day and night toxic waste pours out of the factories straight into the sea , poisoning the waters which once provided them with a living as independent fishermen . |
| 22 | They took breath for a few moments before they emerged , after the third volley , to finish what they had begun , the Welsh swordsmen boiling out of the bushes joyously on their heels . |
| 23 | She could n't wait to be back under the lights again with all eyes on her . |
| 24 | If there is a tunnel , then I reckon it 'll come out in the woods somewhere to the north of the fence an' close to it . |
| 25 | These were then combined as a buffet and served back to the students together with one free soft drink of their choice . |
| 26 | He glanced back to the doors again in terror . |
| 27 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 28 | Olivetti ( Italy ) , Bull ( France ) and STC-ICL ( Britain ) were showing modest success compared at least with the disasters earlier in the 1980S . |
| 29 | For just under a £150,000 the tower offers a sitting room in the basement , a dining room on the first floor … one bedroom on the second floor then up the stairs again to the top bedroom … plus the view from the top … |
| 30 | Experiments in which sleep was taken at different times have shown that REM sleep is very little affected by external factors , with most REM activity in the hours between 8 o'clock and noon , and least in the hours just before midnight . |