Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're mostly the country old country people now . |
| 2 | Erm right the Yorkshire Aquarist Festival we had a coach two ninety three pound on the coach and a raffle a hundred and six pound erm on the inter-club we had a fourteen pound twenty five entry and we had a raffle , twenty nine twenty five , making forty three pound fifty . |
| 3 | From then on the snowball gathered momentum until on 24th November , the entire Politburo resigned , to be followed by the collapse of its still communist-dominated replacement government on 7th December . |
| 4 | Having arranged for it to be put on the grave that afternoon , he returned to Weatherbury in the evening , with a basket of flowering plants . |
| 5 | But you chose to switch on the news that day , or to hear it from a friend ; and you chose to have certain thoughts in response to that news . |
| 6 | Finally , interviewers are often hesitant to broach the question of one partner wishing to resign , so at interview we raise the issue and offer reassurance that should it ever occur the remaining partner would either also resign or take on the post full time . |
| 7 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 8 | Sometimes the court lays down a prima facie assumption applicable to a certain kind of provision ( eg the rule that time is not of the essence of a rent review timetable ) . |
| 9 | Apparently the Mayor last year or the Mayoress er was rather keen and organized a match between the Dulwich Club and her team nominally which turned out to be made up of masters from Dulwich College . |
| 10 | But my favourite Ford , and the best car for the country dwellers , is the versatile five-door Escort estate , especially the GLX 1.6 version . |
| 11 | The results , especially the dooming 6-0 defeat at Swindon last Saturday , tell their own story , even if Ball 's arrival at the Victoria Ground from Colchester as first-team coach pointed to his promotion . |
| 12 | The development of the futures market , especially the LIFFE short sterling contract , further enhanced market liquidity . |
| 13 | Naturally the CPC international examination has to be passed before the haulier can embark on international goods vehicle operations with trucks over 500kg . |
| 14 | The fire brigade were called in to take down the ropes that year . ) |
| 15 | That 's what he said to me , cos I said oh it 's all old men you know what I mean , he said it 's not he said like , you go down the West Indian end , he said and it 's really a blinding day out . |
| 16 | The operating crew mistakenly shut down the no. 2 engine . |
| 17 | there was coincidental positive reinforcement that indicated shutting down the no. 2 engine was the correct course of action . |
| 18 | I remember that within 10 minutes of our first conversation , Christopher asked me how I would feel if we closed down the Birmingham head office — his view was that the way to change the company 's culture was to close the headquarters and start again somewhere else . |
| 19 | Balza , who put down the December 1990 rebellion by the right-wing carapintadas faction of the army [ see p. 37913 ] , declined to comment on former Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin whose release from prison the attempted coup had been intended to force . |
| 20 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
| 21 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 22 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 23 | Beautifully designed and minted , the silver pieces were used as the preferred exchange in southern Arabia and down the East African coast until as recently as the 1970s . |
| 24 | Langbaurgh 's Leisure Services Officer , Max Coleby , said : ‘ As far as road races are concerned we are having to financially batten down the hatches this year and all events will be self-financing . |
| 25 | The ball went down the Leeds left wing and was turned onto Deanes outstretching head . |
| 26 | She swallowed drily and asked huskily , ‘ Why ca n't we go down the ladder this way ? ’ |
| 27 | went down the gym last night , first time in about three weeks . |
| 28 | Diana Ross sauntered down the catwalk this season wearing little more than a feather boa and a smile . |
| 29 | And I 'd say I was down the docks last night trying to rob the life-rafts , getting the first aid kits and trying to get the Omnopon and all that , and I nearly got caught , ca n't you help us out ? |
| 30 | Dyson scarcely had time to stride up and down the office that morning , lecturing Bob on the importance of television , but he was in great form all the same . |