Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 2 | It is easy enough to identify features that are likely to provoke laughter and were presumably intended to do so amongst the common attributes of the fabliaux . |
| 3 | Moreover , most users saw the centres as somewhere to go to get out of the house rather than somewhere to learn . |
| 4 | When there is port bias on the line you will rarely need to start right at the pin end . |
| 5 | Slowly Georg got out of the van , looked around to make sure there was no-one who knew him , then he walked quickly across to the station restaurant , entered , and hid himself quickly in a booth that had a view of the rails . |
| 6 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 7 | This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly . |
| 8 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 9 | But they would greatly prefer to do so with the benefit of seeing the actual documents . |
| 10 | Someone literally got carried away towards the end of the game cos he fell over the front of his seat and banged his head . |
| 11 | Nothing could have been better designed to ram home to the Scots that monarchy as they understood it was a thing of the past . |
| 12 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 13 | The third , however , is both reliable and objective ; and furthermore has benefited greatly from the advancement of computer technology and a proliferation of textual resources in electronic form . |
| 14 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 15 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 16 | The horses all looked spruced up for the occasion with plaited manes , even the two disgruntled piebald ponies on which perched two identical solemn-faced small girls . |
| 17 | One only has to see Back to the Future to realize what problems could arise . |
| 18 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 19 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 20 | The consequence was " chaos " resulting from " the absence of any broad general basis of education , such as English offers " , and from the lack of an English " compactly enough built to do well in the scramble " . |
| 21 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 22 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 23 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 24 | The glass exploded outwards and rain suddenly came pouring in through the hole . |
| 25 | Its distance is 130 light-years , so that Aldebaran is not a genuine member ; it merely happens to lie in between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 26 | A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid . |
| 27 | So that 's how you look after your bandages and all these things that we 're going to show you you 'll find in those little sections in your first aid book so if you get confused or why you 've only got to look up in the book . |
| 28 | But it might as well save its money if it is merely going to flow out of the country into the pockets and profits of foreign firms . |
| 29 | I would say on page twelve , it 's perhaps interesting to look just at the summary there , where you 'll see that your gross expenditure for next year , is now some fifty four million pounds . |
| 30 | Having proved the value of a design-led business , Conran saw the logic of applying the same approach to other retail companies that had perhaps got left behind in the high-street revolution . |