Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |
| 32 | ‘ Well , when you use a vibrato bar guitar , when you hit the strings really hard , a lot of the vibration gets transferred to the springs and back into the bar in a sort of flutter and I really do n't like that sound at all . |
| 33 | secondly , pursuing untrustworthy promoters or record companies , if necessary through the courts and on to the enforcement of judgements , deters other business people from trying to get rich at the expense of musicians . |
| 34 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 35 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 36 | Suddenly , guns were fired again , and a group of pirates ran from the woods and on to the stockade . |
| 37 | Through the quarry and the conifer woods and out into the main road where the yellow lights make you look like something in a Hammer horror . |
| 38 | The following topics are being pursued : transfer incomes to the elderly , contrasting the level of support under the Poor Law and the Welfare State ; retirement and the employment of elderly persons in pre-industrial times and up to the present . |
| 39 | Another imaginative gesture was the gift of 6 pairs of sturdy , warm mittens , for those who had to work with rusty iron trestles or out in the cold . |
| 40 | MacDonald defines non-traditional students as those who are 21 years or over at the commencement of their degree course on the 1st of October . |
| 41 | Such grants are based on the Statute of Monopolies 1623 , which , while in general prohibiting the grant of monopolies , made an exception in favour of patents ‘ for the term of fourteen years or under for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within the realm to the true and first inventor or inventors of such manufactures , which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants shall not use ’ . |
| 42 | If you look carefully at this level you 'll see two dark bands and in between the growth . |
| 43 | We were away for almost three weeks and in between the cricket we also played five hockey fixtures and one tournament . |
| 44 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 45 | These can quickly and easily be removed from their individual compartments and on to the pricking out stage . |
| 46 | Wishing the bride good luck , we pushed our way through the milling crowds of guests and out under the entrance arch of the haveli . |
| 47 | She turned her head away , scalding tears coursing down her cheeks and on to the pillow which had absorbed her earlier grief . |
| 48 | If you have a combination skin , recognisable by an oily T-zone ( forehead , nose and chin ) and drier cheeks , apply moisturiser only where you need it ( ie over the cheeks and up to the temples ) . |
| 49 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 50 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
| 51 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
| 52 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
| 53 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 54 | They are tunnelling down into the sewers and up into the cavity walls and suspended ceilings . |
| 55 | The most important ones are often the most inaccessible : under the floorboards near to airbricks and up in the loft space near to the eaves . |
| 56 | They moved along passages and down to the cabin deck . |
| 57 | He nattered his way from university , through Chicago jazz combos and on into the birth of punk rock as the UK Subs never knew it . |
| 58 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
| 59 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 60 | The price for the shares must be paid out of distributable profits or out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purpose of the buy-back ( s160(1) ( a ) ) . |