Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make their way down through the courtyard past the concierge 's busy-lizzies and geraniums in their cluster of terracotta and out onto the street where the Mercedes and driver are double-parked squeezing the traffic to an irascible trickle . |
| 2 | As you might expect , though , it is difficult to stop the loss of energy and plasma along the magnetic lines of force and out of the ends of these machines . |
| 3 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |
| 4 | One takes me along St Mary 's Villas and Barrowclough Road , past the old municipal baths and the new DIY and wholesale paint centre ; while the other means cutting down Lennox Gardens , taking that street whose name I always forget into Rumsey Road , then past the row of shops and back into the High Street . |
| 5 | In the end , it was relatively easy to steal through the darkened halls of Tara and out into the night . |
| 6 | All over the south and south-west of England and up into the midlands and the borders of Wales we may encounter ancient hill forts on hill tops or upper slopes , still marked by the visible line of prehistoric ditches . |
| 7 | Christina was pleased to get her into the car without being mobbed , and drove quickly out of town and on to the coast-road . |
| 8 | The brothers were literally run out of town and back over the English border . |
| 9 | Wishing the bride good luck , we pushed our way through the milling crowds of guests and out under the entrance arch of the haveli . |
| 10 | For mature students ( those 21 years of age and over at the time of entry ) the relationship was particularly weak . |
| 11 | Mr Harper , from Richmond , North Yorkshire , says his letter has been sent from ‘ pillar to post ’ from Downing Street to the Department of Environment and on to the Health Department without a word from Mr Major . |
| 12 | Mr Harper wanted Mr Major to stop the closures but says his letter has been sent from ‘ pillar to post ’ from Downing Street to the Department of Environment and on to the Health Department without a word from Mr Major . |
| 13 | Crowds of men were standing on the river-bank , pushing and jostling , craning their necks and shifting position , trying to get a view through the mass of bodies and out across the water . |
| 14 | There were four bids of 4,000gns and over with the two-year-old Zhaab from TJ Harding of Hardhurst , Walton , Brampton , making the second top figure of the day at 4,400gns when he was snapped up by J Tully of Bowenhill , Teviothead , Hawick . |
| 15 | Lord Joseph is now 71 , in the House of Lords and out of the political fray . |
| 16 | By the first decade of the twentieth century the majority of medics saw return to enforced regulation of VD as out of the question . |
| 17 | The nearest approach , perhaps , is the long belt of deltas extending today , from the Ganges in eastern India , via the Brahmaputra , the Irrawaddy and the Sittang , to the rivers of the Gulf of Siam and on via the Mekong to the Sang-koi and Si-kiang rivers of southern China . |
| 18 | And , because they will have arisen not out of planning but out of the story you are telling , almost certainly each new development will have that necessary quality of being a worse trouble for your heroine until the final calamity at the end . |
| 19 | Micky Hazard is out of favour and out of the team . |
| 20 | When it comes to achieving profit the PROFITBOSS keeps sex out of mind , out of sight and out of the way . |
| 21 | Willie longed to touch it but it was put under the counter and he quickly followed Tom back through the dark tunnel of materials and out into the daylight . |
| 22 | The beck runs from fields via springs , down London Street , hides under the road , emerges again round Bridge Street flats , underground again until it appears in the churchyard , then under the road and into West Green where it runs beside an avenue of stately chestnut trees , out of Pocklington and on to the river Derwent . |
| 23 | This great ocean current , with its origins in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico , streams north with many twists and meanderings , sending offshoots round the north of Britain and on up the Norwegian coast . |
| 24 | Quigley started to pace up and down the room as the mass murderer , who had now leaped out of bed and on to the window-sill of his hospital suite , announced his intention of travelling the sixteen floors between him and the pavement without the aid of lift or stairs . |
| 25 | There is no need to leap straight out of bed and off to the doctor 's surgery to take advantage of the ‘ morning after ’ contraceptive pill . |
| 26 | An orderly queue was formed , stretching throughout the corridors of Hardside and out onto the rugby pitches . |
| 27 | The retinue accompanied Corbett and Ranulf out of Leith and on to the now darkening track to Winburgh.They exchanged insults with Ranulf and then turned back . |
| 28 | 1992 has left them on the edge of relegation and out of the cup . |
| 29 | But enough of history and on with the present — Windows in particular . |
| 30 | Tackle the problem of front and back in the same way , making it obvious which side is the front . |