Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 2 | Helping bring their compulsory competitive tendering and privatization plans to a halt up and down the country . |
| 3 | Nothing hurried , none of the subterfuge of moving a body quietly and in the dead of night out of Athens . |
| 4 | A month ago he went into Edinburgh for a night out and in the small hours was stabbed to death . |
| 5 | about a week ago and from the looks of things I 've passed it quite successfully . |
| 6 | just say right we 'll put a pound a week in and at the end of the year |
| 7 | The war in Europe had ended a month earlier and in the Far East the Japanese armies were in full retreat . |
| 8 | These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South . |
| 9 | Over several years volunteers from schools , colleges , and County Youth Clubs , together with many adult enthusiasts , have worked at cutting and clearing trees and undergrowth , uncovering surface works and piers , cleaning channels and tracks and in constructing a path down and across the site to enable visitors to explore as much of the Plane as possible . |
| 10 | The G M B's European officer has contributed a lot here and at the cutting edge in Brussels . |
| 11 | Was in Torquay last weekend for one night at its expense to receive chairman 's award for my voluntary input to British Association of Industrial Editors , notably to Education & Professional Development — bliss to be funded and have a night in a good hotel and a trip up and down the river Dart in quite remarkable sunshine — glorious countryside . |