Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Others pack up a tent , put the dinghy in the back of the car and disappear up to the west coast of Scotland with only a collection of Arthur Ransome books for company .
32 And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there .
33 Shelley swallowed the lump in her throat and said hoarsely , trying to be businesslike , ‘ I 'll accept that , because I thought instead of flying home I 'd like to hire a car and drive up to the north — see something of the rest of the country . ’
34 Ross agreed gratefully , arranging to hire a car and drive out to the Hampton 's later on that afternoon .
35 I must collect my gear and check out of the hotel …
36 I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe .
37 Rain was dripping through the roof in several places , falling with a recurrent plop and splash on to the wet floor-boards .
38 In some countries rebels make up their own military force and rise up against the government .
39 It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation .
40 Change hands , push to where you were sitting , crouch in the middle of the boat and straighten up on the new course .
41 Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief .
42 Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course .
43 I take the tube and have my first puff and lean back upon the settee , my eyes closed , my legs spread slightly .
44 Later , well into the night , Mina and Kāli wrap blankets round their shoulders and walk out through the village .
45 Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon .
46 Okay press the er escape key and go back to the regression results , erm so return to the post regression menu and then display regression results , regressult results again .
47 With Rex and Woodchip out of the picture and the forces of darkness set loose upon the land , how can we fail ?
48 Most people through that the four would join Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday and bow out at the top , having achieved the historic second Grand Slam .
49 ‘ Can we cut the expert critical review and get on with the job of finding out where Jenny is ! ’
50 Look , take this sovereign and go down to the station .
51 Use the map to get up to the ladder on the other side and climb out onto the platform , pick up a crate and kill the workman , now kill the green blob and complete the level by reaching the flag .
52 I then collect the grassbox and jog back to the front of the house where Pa is waiting .
53 Let us now leave the Great Russians of the Kursk guberniia and move out of the hills to the south of Nikol'skaia volost' .
54 So it 's very easy for bacteria , which are always present around the anus , to reach the usually bacteria-free urethra and travel up into the bladder where they multiply and irritate the bladder lining .
55 These are again flakes that can be lifted out of dry gravel and float off on the surface of the water .
56 People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west .
57 Most politicians , in any case , are not interested in the machinery of government ; their absorption is with the end product , the pensions , houses , levels of income and foreign policies that come out of the machine .
58 Four pieces , four airs in four different keys ; each air , moreover , is strewn with notes that go out of the key , and the so-called key of the work , the one in which it begins and ends , is the one that prevails least ; the work goes directly from an air in E♭ major to another in E [ minor ] , which is unheard of …
59 The chill of the early morning was dispersing under the grey cloud base that spread in from the west .
60 Is not that comment on security even more staggering than the bombs that go off in the city , although all such bombings are to be condemned and deplored ?
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