Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 2 | The erm we 're gon na , we 're gon na make a drive bit that goes in across where the lawn is now |
| 3 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
| 4 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 5 | I position my head above her backside and let some spit fall down onto where the knuckle is caught on the ring of muscle , then push my finger filly into her . |
| 6 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
| 7 | The smell hit them as they slithered to the bottom of the slope and McLeish resolutely took a breath before walking over to where the swollen body lay . |
| 8 | Grimma wandered over to where the human lay . |
| 9 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 10 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 11 | Defending against smashes is even trickier — you have to press up and fire to jump up at exactly the right moment to block the smash , and sometimes the other player will fool you by just tipping a weak shot over your head ! |
| 12 | Somewhere , over on the other side of the Common , a truck moved up from below the hill and , headlights hooded , started across towards Parkside . |
| 13 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |
| 14 | At times they veer towards the kind of sulk-metal that dodgy punk bands used to come up with when the guitarist was a closet Jimmy Page buff . |
| 15 | After Edgbaston came the English Stroke-Play Championship at Hollinwell where , as she had feared from the outset , she had to pull out after just the one round because of swollen glands . |
| 16 | But Pool went in front in 63 minutes when Preston keeper Simon Farnworth headed out from outside the area and Peake sent his 30-yard shot into the net before anyone could recover . |
| 17 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 18 | Stein said yesterday : ‘ Mr Beller told me if things were not sorted out by tomorrow the company would cease trading and I do really fear this is the end . |
| 19 | By using the stomach tube , and portions of liquefied food identified only by a code number , the test could be carried out without either the patient or the nurse giving the test food knowing its identity . |
| 20 | Will my right hon. Friend add a new dimension to the debate by commenting on whether any studies have been carried out on how the TA could provide relief in the event of natural disasters , which would have the agreeable effect of combining military efficiency with humanitarian benefits ? |
| 21 | The services carried out by both the All- weather and Inshore lifeboats over the years are well documented and , as usual , Jeff Morris 's book can be recommended to anyone with an interest in the work and history of lifeboats in the area . |
| 22 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 23 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
| 24 | If the proposals leaked they would be dynamite inside the health service , and yet they had come round with only the routine ‘ confidential ’ security classification . |
| 25 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 26 | Morning winds may be light , but afternoons are usually brisk , with exciting open sea sailing in force 3 to 5 for many days each holiday — let down by only the odd day of paddling ! |
| 27 | He did not immediately dry his face but knelt over the stream , looking down to where the sun was glinting on the pebbles , turning them momentarily into stars . |
| 28 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 29 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
| 30 | As dusk fell they all piled back into the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ and , with the track rod end still giving forth its loud protesting wail , drove down to where the torpedo boats were moored . |