Example sentences of "that [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Is there any chance you could run a page or so every now and then to explain a few of the terms that crop up in the reviews ?
2 In the north can be found lush greenery standing out in the bottom of the valleys that carve down through the mountains , and fields of banana plantations standing against the backdrop of Mount Teide , the island 's dormant volcano .
3 Insects that fly in at the sides encounter a vertical baffle of netting that divides the trap along its axis , and tend to fly or clamber to the highest point of the baffle where the only way out is into a collecting jar .
4 The most lethal amphibian venom of all is secreted by tiny arrow-poison frogs that clamber about in the leaves littering the floor of the South American rain forests .
5 It always seem to be the yachtie women that walk in between the locks , their men seriously at the wheel .
6 Because Mrs like erm sort of assumes herself to be really fashionable by the things that like up with the fashions or anything and then Mr self important stories of the War .
7 LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability .
8 LENNY KAYE , sometime guitarist and sometime producer , is a man in his 40s with facial lines that turn up at the edges and spell affability .
9 Florida is the shock of the new jutaposed with '40s and '50s kitsch and the magnificent turn-of-the-century beachfront resorts that date back to the days when the Northern grandees , steamer trunks and servants in tow , would descend by private rail to the exclusive enclaves of Sarasota , Palm Beach and Miami .
10 I have a great deal of sympathy with all these organisations anyway , and the tremendous number of volunteers that come out on the days .
11 The task is to collect coins and to tip up the tortoises and spiders that crawl out of the pipes along the platforms .
12 The task is to collect coins and to tip up the tortoises and spiders that crawl out of the pipes along the platforms .
13 They know , too , all the secret places of the bank : the nest of sandbags built during the War for the Home Guard ; the ruins of Marsh Edge Farm that lies in an angle of the tip hidden from the town ; the steps , cut in the slag-face , that lead down to the Ironworks Pier from which they can watch the boats .
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