Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hour after hour the great multicoloured sails swept past . |
| 32 | For hour after hour the RCAF aircraft flew over miles of bright green forest interspersed with many lakes and rivers . |
| 33 | where hour after hour the blood seeped up |
| 34 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 35 | By 14 hours after admission the platelet count had fallen from 209 to 134×10/l , the blood urea concentration had risen to 16.2 mmol/l , and the creatinine concentration from 392 to 418 µmol/l . |
| 36 | During the night and for several hours after dawn the summit remains clearly visible , but as the plain warms up in the morning sun , the hot air rises and becomes vapour at a given height . |
| 37 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 38 | CISSY SALT AND FREDDY PEPPER in RING FOR ROBSON The Cheeriest Show in Town with Marion Conroy Bunty Baird Gilbert Forbes Jack Walker |
| 39 | Or was it a form of Luddism for fear the machines would displace men ? |
| 40 | The answer to the question ‘ who sold to Z ? ’ depends upon whether Y was a buyer and re-seller or whether he was merely an agent for X. The answer is not helped by the fact that people who are in fact buyers and resellers are often termed in the trade ‘ agents . ’ |
| 41 | With regard to the search for consensus the results are often contradictory . |
| 42 | The truth behind the search for Ivan the Terrible 's fabled library |
| 43 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 44 | Friends raise funds for Mark THE family and friends of autistic five-year-old Mark Mason have raised £1,400 to buy special computer equipment to help him communicate and make better progress at the special school he attends in York . |
| 45 | In a last bid for survival the programme had more recently tried to pick up social realism , taking on subjects such as bisexuality , suicide and abortion in a Catholic family . |
| 46 | Written in June 1936 , " Secrets de l'Espagne " , Nizan 's extended analysis of the Spanish situation for La Correspondance internationale , bears witness not only to his perceptiveness ( " There is emerging on the Republican horizon a fascist bid for power the conditions for which are being prepared by the social unrest orchestrated by the right " ) , but also to his enormous talent as a political reporter . |
| 47 | ‘ I organise the jumble sales for Oxfam and the annual pig-roast for Help The Aged … |
| 48 | Many of the PAN 's traditional supporters appeared to abandon the party to support Salinas for fear the left might win . |
| 49 | We arranged an interview for noon the next day at his house on Rocky Point . |
| 50 | On the other hand the owner is clearly involved in the business and may well use his car for business the question is how much . |
| 51 | The octagonal shrine , the Dalada Maligawa , houses the tooth-relic of Buddha , an object of veneration for Buddhists the world over . |
| 52 | This comment from the editors in their introduction to this book spells out the dilemma for lesbians the whole world over . |
| 53 | Accompanied by wonderful press release describing it as ‘ pound for pound the best value art book … high quality art publishing for just over 8p per page ’ . |
| 54 | Erm a cultural diversity report which lists for example the events or and film erm which relate to erm that aspect of our policy . |
| 55 | In their original submission for finance the deputy head explained the aims of the project . |
| 56 | The decision to go ahead with the press conference two days later was finalised ; Pons edited a note alerting his staff to this effect , called Jones on the phone to reconfirm the joint submission for Friday the 24th but , according to Jones , said nothing about the press conference planned for the day before nor of the 11 March submission by Pons to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry . |
| 57 | The consequences of rejecting him could be ( a ) a fatal split in the Labour Party as a whole ; ( b ) an utterly confused state of party politics in the Commons ; and-most serious of all in the immediate term for Labour-(c) the danger that the Queen might refuse to appoint B Prime Minister because of his obvious lack of a Commons majority . |
| 58 | I wanted to get a cardigan for school the other day and |
| 59 | ( d ) Transfer A reminder to prepare and send to the other side for approval the draft transfer in duplicate . |
| 60 | Similarly prolific and passionate in their dedication were Canon Roger Lloyd , author of , among other works , The Fascination of Railways , Canon Reginald Fellows , researcher into the history of Bradshaw , Canon Victor Whitechurch , creator of the fictional railway detective Thorpe Hazell , and Revd Wilbert Awdrey , author of the much-loved children 's books about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends . |