Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A housewarming was impulsively decided on to mark the arrival of the new Alfoxden tenants , and on about 17 July Coleridge , seeking ‘ change of air ’ , arrived from Stowey in anticipation of the event . |
| 2 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 3 | ‘ I usually take no notice and just turn up for work the following day . |
| 4 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 5 | It 's it 's like it 's like going back in time the feeling about it . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that the 486 based PC 's are gradually coming down in price the evidence suggests that the 386 is still the preferred entry level machine . |
| 7 | Thus you can still pick out with ease the route of the ancient Wellestream , up which , in the fourteenth century , came cargoes of cloth from the Low Countries and silks from Italy , not to mention news of the dawning Renaissance , bound for Cambridge and beyond . |
| 8 | On the ego it left a stamp which definitively brought about in man the culmination of the long primate evolutionary trend towards dominance of the higher cortical centres over the lower , olfactory ones , and the final emancipation of his fore-limb from locomotion and of his responses from direct chemical stimuli . |
| 9 | Most Super-Sprinter services are based on hourly or two-hourly clock-face timings , and a feature of their operation has been their reliability , much in the face of opposition from traditional railway operators who originally rejected out of hand the idea that end-on services could be linked up without transferring delays from one part of the system to another . |
| 10 | My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time . |
| 11 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
| 12 | I doubt it myself , for the reason that introduced the words ‘ as far as it goes ’ above : the book simply leaves out of account the most important recent developments which foretell a revolution in the measurement and understanding of intelligence . |
| 13 | Having studied the sunspots and the solar prominences , in a race with the Frenchman P. J. C. Janssen , Lockyer then moved on to claim the existence of a new element in the sun , helium . |
| 14 | He lifted Leonora into the passenger-seat then leapt up to back the vehicle out into the narrow street , waving his thanks as a weather-beaten old man slammed the garage door shut with a wide smile before waving them on their way . |
| 15 | He then sets out to scourge the thronging temples of moneychangers and idolators . |