Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 References to the delírio , the madness of hunger , can be found as early as the sixteenth century in the writings of Portuguese navigators , and it is a recurring theme in Brazilian literature right up to the present day .
2 Professor Ienaga pledged to fight the case right through to the Supreme Court .
3 The ongoing development is continued in the story right up to the present day and it is very interesting to see the numerous designs which have been tried , tested and put into operation .
4 They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding .
5 From there the road was downhill , so we were able to coast noiselessly down into the sleeping suburbs , then dismount and push the bike into the city centre .
6 Erm I think possibly just the trees themselves are we you know , th okay they 're olive trees , so they 're a little bit unusual , we do n't get too many olive trees growing in this country , but I 'm not so sure that they 're as er that attractive to make a , a photograph solely out of the olive trees .
7 Dyson peered down into the darkness after it , driving the car steadily out across the white line in the middle of the road .
8 Pull the dumb-bell slowly back to the overhead position , then breathe out .
9 And , who knows , perhaps one day in the future we will find further evidence from an even earlier date , to take the domestic cat right back to the very beginning of the Neolithic period , some ten thousand years ago .
10 His face smashed a pane low down in the french window and went through , stippling Goldman 's shoes with blood .
11 In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) .
12 On the day that the Sinn Fein president Mr Gerry Adams lost his seat in West Belfast , the blast was being seen as a deliberate attempt by the IRA to place the Irish question firmly back in the political agenda .
13 THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda .
14 There was Mr and then a bit further up on the right hand side was a fella who used to have the contract for making the bread for the
15 Illert , through his research , is now in a position to rigorously describe the shapes of past , present and future shell forms , and as sea shells are amongst the best preserved of all fossils , we have a progression throughout the entire fossil record from the Pre-Cambrian era right up to the present day .
16 Great tradition and a fine reputation are the hallmarks of this producer , from their fine Non Vintage right through to the superb " Comtes de Champagne " prestige cuvée .
17 Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp .
18 ‘ The only true part of the old story is that a meteorite hit that hill way back in the late nineteenth century and dug a damn big crater there . ’
19 Place the spaceship carefully on to the red spaceship base , so that the candy tips rest on the cake .
20 The fact that the South East contains a disproportionately high number of professional and managerial inhabitants , that transportation is generally quicker and easier because of the flatter terrain , and that industry and population from London have been relocated to surrounding satellite towns have all conspired to spread the ex-urban population far out into the metropolitan hinterland .
21 Join this point diagonally up to the outer edges of tab .
22 ‘ You 've routed the link straight through to the Tertiary Controls in the Zero Room , have n't you ? ’
23 Stephen Blufton swung his head calmly round to the black detective with a glint of watchfulness in his eyes .
24 They had no particular design , often had several connecting chambers , and continued in use right through to the Late Minoan period .
25 Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe .
26 But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure .
27 She dug the nail of her little finger deeply in behind the left ear .
28 The champion poisoners — the Borgias of the forest — are the tiny kokoi frogs that patter boldly about in the tropical undergrowth of South America .
29 And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale .
30 If you have time , pay a visit to Rossano which boasts an exquisite byzantine church straight out of the Arabian Nights or drive south towards Tropea a pretty fishing town with superb , golden beaches .
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