Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye but they 've got it now , there 's about eight copies out on the , all on the shelf gathering dust . |
| 2 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 3 | Throwing mooring ropes out to the Continent to balance Britain 's over-strong anchor cables to America made sense to many people . |
| 4 | The late-fourth century rebuilding at Chedworth , with the use of stones from the nymphaeum , and associated coins up to the House of Theodosius , clearly indicates a continued occupation of the site , presumably as a small farm . |
| 5 | One by one , he put the drowsy birds on to the top perch . |
| 6 | Then we 'll pick 500 forms out of the bag and send you a month 's supply of Elancyl MP24 or an Active Toning Kit and a second survey which we will need you to fill in and return to us . |
| 7 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 8 | He says we need to get private cars out of the city centre and make it into a place which is safe for pedestrians and cyclists , not polluted and where the buildings are n't being torn apart by traffic . |
| 9 | He hurried up the narrow steps on to the parapet of the curtain wall . |
| 10 | A shuttle bus operates to the hotel 's reserved section of beach at San Maria , which is accessed via 70 steps down from the road and has a beach bar . |
| 11 | Both Governments regard the current upsurge in loyalist murders as an urgent incentive to get the political parties back around the negotiating table . |
| 12 | I sometimes think that artists could well exhibit a few sketches along with the actual picture . |
| 13 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 14 | Swivelling round in his chair , he dropped a pile of X-rays and accompanying notes on to the desk beside him . |
| 15 | In its enclosed valley basin the fume and grime from the cheap coal of its suburban collieries with iron works , brass foundries and glass works was already driving the wealthier merchants up into the healthy heights of Clifton by the 1720s . |
| 16 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 17 | Ive been saying recently we needed his inspiration to drag some wins out of the draws we ve been getting . |
| 18 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
| 19 | So we 've therefore put some proposals through to the Commission of European Communities , which eventually will go to the Council of Ministers to extend Jet 's experimental programme into the end of 1996 . |
| 20 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 21 | To make some sense of this vast range , and to understand how the variables can be employed to make useful , but considerably different products out of the same basic chemicals , it is necessary to classify products according to their general function in the food environment . |
| 22 | Mr Shekhar came to power last November by leading 60-odd defectors out of the ruling Janata Dal , and forming a minority government with the support of Congress . |
| 23 | With the Charter and the political precepts of the paper firmly in place , all that was needed was to drag a few journalists out of the pubs and set them to work . |
| 24 | ‘ I think we must get that husband of yours to lop a few branches off outside the window before you go blind , ’ he says to Rose , to demonstrate the terms he is on with her . |
| 25 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 26 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 27 | Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden . |
| 28 | A pale yellow lustre was growing low down in the east , making feathery silhouettes out of the black stands of trees along the bends in the river . |
| 29 | They may have gone down the medium wave dial from 10.17 to 8.55 , but their new premises in Ludlow is more than a few steps up from the barn . |
| 30 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |