Example sentences of "of the [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all moved out of the church down to the lake which glistened brightly , though the island itself was still mist-shrouded . |
| 2 | Last night trained officers were trying to coax details of the ordeal out of the victim in an attempt to build a picture of the rapist . |
| 3 | If a decision has been taken to sell or terminate an operation and the reporting entity is demonstrably committed to the sale or termination , then provisions should be made only for the direct costs of the sale or termination and any operating losses of the operation up to the date of sale or termination ; provisions for future operating losses may not be made in other circumstances . |
| 4 | While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed . |
| 5 | Other justices appointed were V. Ramaswamy , P. B. Sawant , Narendra Mohan Kasliwal , M. M. Punchi and J. Ramaswamy , bringing the composition of the Court up to the full strength of 26 . |
| 6 | you 're actually pushing the head of the femur back into the joint |
| 7 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 8 | Then he dropped the rest of the portion back on the plate , went to the fridge , poured the dregs of a bottle of wine into a glass and drank it . |
| 9 | Beginning in the 1940s , they used Beef Shorthorn bulls on Highland cows and crossed the best of the heifers back to the Shorthorn bull , Cruggleton Alastair , and followed this with a careful and deliberate system of inbreeding and then line-breeding to establish the breed , which was officially recognised in 1965 . |
| 10 | Compare the description of the agony in In the Same boat ( a story the end of which is truer to the experience than i– the end of The Brushwood Boy ) : ‘ Suppose you were a violin string — vibrating — and someone put his finger on you ’ with the image of the ‘ banjo string drawn tight ’ for the breaking wave in The finest Story in the World . |
| 11 | By analysing element of the calls back at the laboratory , the biologists were able to show that the prairie dogs distinguished between them reasonably well , effectively creating a distinctive call for each person . |
| 12 | Once you 've got the orientation right carefully line the pins of the chips up with the holes in the socket . |
| 13 | Besides , neither of us liked the idea of the swim out to the Nocturne . |
| 14 | ‘ The gods have no imagination , ’ he said , stepping out of the tub on to the towels spread on the rugs before his glass , and turning himself about beneath Langholme 's ministering hands . |
| 15 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |
| 16 | Morpurgo pulled the end of the tie out from the boiler suit and stared down at it , frowning in puzzlement . |
| 17 | From 1981 the Biblioteca Hertziana in Rome has contributed material from its bibliographical and photographic archives , expanding the scope of the Census through to the mid-sixteenth century and to include architecture . |
| 18 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
| 19 | Newby ( 1979 , p. 170 ) suggests that , in fact , ‘ what are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees ’ . |
| 20 | What are demanded are pet farm workers who cause no trouble but who form part of the landscape along with the fields and the trees . |
| 21 | When you have drawn the end of the loop out of the left sleeve , pass it over the volunteer 's left hand and draw the loop up the sleeve again . |
| 22 | The fighting continued , spreading off the great curve of the ramparts down into the buildings below . |
| 23 | Most of the swing back to the government occurred during the winter of 1986–7 and there was relatively little swing in the last few months before the election . |
| 24 | I was n't any better at this kind of messy shoot-out than they were , but I put a hole or two in the car 's windscreen , and put one of the soldiers out for the count . |
| 25 | In all of this giving away of herself ( which can be taken in two modern senses ) , this revelation of a coarser character beneath the courtly exterior she tries to sustain , Margery follows the movement of the opening stanzas of the text down from the character of the courtly dame to the level of the townswoman , a stereotyped bourgeois Vxor , " Wife " : the label that seems to be given her by the letter " " V " alongside some of her speeches in the manuscript copy of Dame Sirith . |
| 26 | Gabriel , standing motionless , his feet apart , shoulders back and hands resting on the sword-hilt , caught sight of the man out of the corner of his eye . |
| 27 | Here gigantic gi , we use to have a word of the day when erm Ian was here , use to put word of the day up on the board |
| 28 | Now after the er there was a incident at erm the er engine shed , er the stabling of the locomotive was transferred away , erm and it used to travel at the end of the day over to the er or , or er engine shed , where it er stayed for the stayed for the night . |
| 29 | ‘ Best I Can ’ stays faithful to the taped intro before Geoff Tate and the band steer the rest of the song up to the heights , unbridled optimism rampant . |
| 30 | ‘ Best I Can ’ stays faithful to the taped intro before Geoff Tate and the band steer the rest of the song up to the heights , unbridled optimism rampant . |