Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 32 | And what do you do if you 're not very mobile and fall out with the only GP or practice in the village ? ’ |
| 33 | ( a ) Enter the above items on the Postage Book form provided , total and balance off at the end of the day . |
| 34 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 35 | She gabbled something polite and slunk out of the door , just remembering in time to bid everybody goodbye . |
| 36 | He was happier with this , though , than with his rather over-pan-fried John Dory , which was dry and turned up at the edges . |
| 37 | She takes an exit at random and pulls up at the side of the road to consult her A to Z , but there are no street names visible which would enable her to orient herself . |
| 38 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 39 | By nine in the evening I was fully conscious and observed out of the big window at the end of the room the light beginning to drain from a violet sky . |
| 40 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 41 | This is the kind of question which has no answer , since no difference between commitment and rhetoric will be discernable until refugees are faced with a real choice between some kind of a settlement falling short of the ideal and holding out for the ideal itself . |
| 42 | After a further mile towards Chapel-le-Dale , a track turns off the road to the left and goes down to the beck in the valley bottom , arriving at a section roofed by a natural arch of considerable length . |
| 43 | Alternatively you can turn right along the forest road then go left and drop down off the road to follow a track and waymarkers down to the car park . |
| 44 | The road for the tunnel here bears off to the left and rises up along the glorious valley of Aragnouet , half pasture , half pine woods , past a road leading off to another new ski station , at Piau-Engaly . |
| 45 | I awoke feeling cold and crawled out to the front of the trench . |
| 46 | Even across the Park beyond the main fence of the Zoo , over which the eagles could see if they braved the cold and stared out from the top of their cages , there was not a single person . |
| 47 | At length I grew tired and went back to the joys of the tavern , both the board and the bed . |
| 48 | Frantic parents continued to hassle and swear and at last the stoat grew tired and bounded off into the cover of a pine tree windbreak . |
| 49 | Lay the curtains out flat and measure up from the creased hemline to mark the finished length of the curtains ( top edge ) with a row of tacking stitches across the width of the curtain . |
| 50 | Position markers of mother-of-pearl are inlaid offset in the rosewood , and their diminutive size once again departs from the traditional and scurries off in the direction of the new , though there 's garish or clumsy about them . |
| 51 | Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia . |
| 52 | As a church do we seek the crucified Christ in the poor and speak out with the prophet 's tongue or do we prefer to limit our view to a plaster statue and speak quietly in platitudes ? |
| 53 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
| 54 | This section of land lies between the canal and the River Tame and leads along to the A5127 northeast-bound where there might be room for a vehicle to pull off the road into the gateway to load up beneath the M6 . |
| 55 | Photographs will be taken of the guitar during its production and these will be mounted , framed and presented along with the instrument itself , as a bonus prize — a memento of a truly unique guitar . |
| 56 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 57 | Musically — forget it , but the spot effects are great and make up for the poor acoustic tones . |
| 58 | Inside-right John Jackson , 23 , came from Clyde for £1,000 , one of Leeds ' largest outlays , and Fred Blackman , described by the Yorkshire Post as ‘ possibly the most stylish and polished back in the Second Division ’ , was bought from Huddersfield Town . |
| 59 | It is still early and you can drive out towards Apt and branch off across the Lubéron . |
| 60 | Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on . |