Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The fifty one year old tried to crawl back to the house but collapsed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 8 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 9 | No , oh , I mean personally I think it would be better for the United Reformed to join up with the shared pastures instead of joining up with the Methodist because the Methodist have got plenty of churches in their area , have n't they ? |
| 10 | Attractive Fascia — The soft-look dashboard design uses fluid , rounded shapes to complement the form of the interior and two-tone finishing to blend in with the Clio 's light and spacious driving environment . |
| 11 | He also gained the lovely reputation of being particularly dangerous when he was limping , since an injury to his leg simply made him hit more fours to cut down on the running . |
| 12 | Whatever their riders might desire , those English mounts broke , reared , panicked , cannoned into one another to get out of the way , and doing so caused utter confusion and collapse amongst the enemy . |
| 13 | Nomes had to scramble over one another to get out of the way when one of the floorboards in the manager 's office was pulled up . |
| 14 | You got two more to put in for the next tape . |
| 15 | In the course of the journey one of them , an RAF pilot , had been shot dead trying to jump out of the train in an attempt to reach an Italian fighter plane on an airfield and fly it to Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | Which left Fabia racking her brains to think of how next best to get through to the woman . |