Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford cattle have a long pedigree … they can be traced right back to the red cattle of Roman Britain . |
| 2 | In Chapters 14 and 15 , the extent to which their principles are applied to the relatively new media of television , film and video will be considered separately along with the statutory duties and voluntary censorship systems which work in these media to regulate the treatment of controversial subjects . |
| 3 | Part of her was appalled at the ease with which she had slotted straight back into the military lifestyle ; part of her welcomed the safety of knowing exactly where she fitted in and what she was supposed to do . |
| 4 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 5 | This enables the history of a process model to be tracked easily along with the exact period when a particular model was active . |
| 6 | On the one hand , large parts of sociology have grown directly out of the literary and journalistic traditions . |
| 7 | Troia Cathedral , begun in 1093 , is built high up in the small hill town and is visible for miles as it stands out of the surrounding flat plain . |
| 8 | Ladybirds have done well out of the exceptional summer , as have sweet chestnut trees ; this is the first year that I can recall collecting chestnuts locally that are large enough to eat . |
| 9 | It can be traced directly back to the anti-Dreyfusard cause of the late nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The band was originally formed way back in the early 1900's under the name of Milltown Flute Band , but shortly after its inauguration the band 's conductor and founder member , John Millar , died and the other members decided to change the name of the band in his memory . |
| 11 | And you put all the equipment you have used safely back in the correct tins and on the correct shelf . |
| 12 | Engines roaring , it swooped in to land , braking hard as its wheels touched the wide runway which was crossed halfway along by the single road connecting the British colony to the Spanish mainland . |
| 13 | It is basically a twelfth-century building , though sadly damaged later on by the iconoclastic Protestants of Jeanne d'Albret in the sixteenth century , and by the fanatical rationalists of the French Revolution who converted it into one of their Temples of Reason . |
| 14 | With a glance around , Stone padded silently round to the back gardens , and approached his garage from the rear . |
| 15 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 16 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 17 | The gravel can be laid directly on to the firm ground , but constant walking in wet weather will pound the gravel into the softened earth and you will , after a year or two , have to lay a fresh load to build up the path again . |
| 18 | I was brought rudely back to the real world by Tony 's tripod coming off the top of the pile of clatch ( odds and ends ) piled up above the seat and hitting me on the head as the truck lurched to a halt , diving itself into a drift of deep snow . |
| 19 | D'Arcy 's aircraft had nosed cautiously down through the dense , sluggish cloudcover which had kept the lid firmly on the sultry atmosphere of the city for the past week . |
| 20 | Their bones have been found here along with the headless skeleton of a young prehistoric palaeolithic man from before 12,000BC . |
| 21 | Back in her drab black dress , Ellie was escorted smartly out of the ready-made department and back into the elevator . |
| 22 | Has it gone further back into the primary schools ? |
| 23 | Kennedy , he said , had no previous conviction but in this , his first crime , he had clearly gone straight in at the deep end . |
| 24 | Maclean opens his account in Madrid against local player Alberto Codina a week today , while for Donaldson , who reached the semi-finals of the Danish Open last month , the Guernsey event at the end of next month marks another breakthrough in that it is the first time she has gone straight in to the main draw for a Grade A tournament . |
| 25 | I spent a week on the rack , far away from home , constantly trying to achieve this extra margin which , I hardly need to point out , would have gone straight down to the bottom line and would have been shown as profit . |
| 26 | The Substitute dodged from stone to stone-until he gained the hardened ground in front of the farmhouse where stone steps led sideways up to the front door . |
| 27 | This is probably a result of inadequate treatment and is more common in those who have been treated late on in the infectious stage . |
| 28 | It was fastened tightly on to the right horn , so it dangled down over the cheek and eye . |
| 29 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 30 | When Cardiff had come back from the dead , he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer . |