Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got a quite high neck , it was a lower for the evening , I mean most dresses all the way through the nineteenth century , and now being lower for the evening . |
| 2 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 3 | We realized that we needed a letting agent who would not only take the bookings but generally oversee the properties , plus a cleaner for the days on which they changed hands . |
| 4 | Sergeant Graham Ellery was pictured on a sunlounger at the villa in France where Fergie canoodled with Texan boyfriend John Bryan . |
| 5 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 6 | We , we hired one of these little ones , we did get a bigger for the , only cost us fifteen quid to hire three chain saws for the day . |
| 7 | There are two types : a smaller one in the mountains and a larger in the valleys ( the bulls stand at 141cm and weigh 800–1,200kg , the cows 130cm and 540–600kg ) . |
| 8 | Mr Jones in his early thirties , is a fitter for the gasboard . |
| 9 | She saw Harry stretch out on a lounger in the fragrant shade at the far end of the terrace and toss the last four inches of his Romeo y Julieta into the hedge . |
| 10 | A girl was sunbathing on a lounger in the courtyard outside Culley 's window . |
| 11 | This offers the opportunity to fire the shutter by having a trip rod to act as a plunger on the shutter button when contact is made with the pulley . |
| 12 | This vile cocktail , this blended brew from a malevolent Moulinex , is forced by a plunger down the tube and into Crowley 's tum-tum . |
| 13 | Check that the problem is not one of a blocked waste pipe , by using a plunger over the plug hole . |
| 14 | Spring-loaded brakes were fitted to the trailers and acted mechanically through a plunger in the centre pivot of the turntable . |