Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in other words we got eight tens left over on the bottom . |
| 2 | In a matter of minutes , the attackers had been routed , only a few surviving to run back into the streets where the morning had yet to dispel the darkness . |
| 3 | If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now . |
| 4 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 5 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 6 | The eclipses of December 9 , 1992 , and those on May 21 , June 4 and November 29 in 1993 all home in on the area of profession and your personal hopes and dreams . |
| 7 | Some more hurried out of the building , carrying machinery . |
| 8 | The fifty one year old tried to crawl back to the house but collapsed . |
| 9 | But he was sufficiently master of himself to resist , and pulled out of her , his heart thumping like some crazy locked up in the cell of his chest . |
| 10 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 11 | It 's an insult to feminism and I 'd like to know how much that cost out of the rates . |
| 12 | That 's where all the official entertaining goes on at the regatta — just to give you an idea of the scale of it , they 'll be putting away 50,000 pints of Pimm 's , 6,000 bottles of champagne and 3,000 pounds of strawbnerries . |
| 13 | A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives . |
| 14 | The one three six three goes out through the Sutton on Forest on Forest does it ? |
| 15 | A tiny tinkling started up in the heart of the rose . |
| 16 | Blackwell Retail Ltd edged back into the black — if only just — in the year to end-August 1992 , after two years of losses . |
| 17 | Nearly three hundred turned up for the meeting , which was chaired by Lord Bute , and a video link was set up between the Lecture Theatre and the adjacent room to accommodate the overflow . |
| 18 | Hurricanes of 213 , 229 and 238 Squadron aboard H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ on 21 May 1941 ready to fly off to the Middle East via Malta on Operation ‘ Splice ’ . |
| 19 | That all fitted in with the theory that the reason for Luke 's non-appearance must be some kind of business disaster . |
| 20 | ‘ Their hair 's usually shorter and you do n't have all that messing round with the tongs ’ as one hairdresser cheerfully explained . |
| 21 | But could all this messing about with the type of tree affect the taste of the cider : |
| 22 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 23 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 24 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 25 | Allen picked up the sack and slung it over his shoulder and they all three went out into the open air . |
| 26 | When both together took a few slow hops down one of the runs near-by , Hazel followed and little by little they all three moved out of the hall . |
| 27 | ‘ I see , ’ she said and then she bowed , very slightly , and Rose and Grace did the same and then all three moved out of the drawing-room , upright and daunting . |
| 28 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 29 | Cabs and all all lined up outside the White Hart Jockey Club Rooms . |
| 30 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |