Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [verb] [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 | If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The fifty one year old tried to crawl back to the house but collapsed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives . |
| 10 | A tiny tinkling started up in the heart of the rose . |
| 11 | Blackwell Retail Ltd edged back into the black — if only just — in the year to end-August 1992 , after two years of losses . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |
| 19 | And it splits up , so your your Z N double positive comes out of the zinc rod . |
| 20 | Bass playing out of New Order , squiggly sensory overloading out of The Shamen , ambience out of The Orb , guitars out of a host of Scallydelic outfits ; set the controls for the heart of the crash pad and pass the pipe . |
| 21 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |
| 22 | If one makes the more realistic assumption that the GDP growth rate would fall from 3 per cent to nearly zero over this decade then the figure of 4.5 million unemployed comes out of the Cambridge computer . |
| 23 | A faint glistening showed up on the surface of the carvings . |
| 24 | 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 . |