Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 2 | Try to plan to seat at least six comfortably , and also have some really occasional chairs that can be stashed away in a cupboard somewhere or brought in from the hall or a bedroom . |
| 3 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 4 | Marketers interested in the development and introduction of new products will be particularly interested in the attitude of opinion leaders to these products , for their general market acceptance can be slowed down or speeded up by the views of such people . |
| 5 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 6 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 7 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 8 | Anyway , so that gets back to the thing over policy . |
| 9 | I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the . |
| 10 | The terrain being flat , the wind tore across scrub and heathland unimpeded , and the snow it drove ahead of itself banked against our cottage , so that to get out to the pump we had to dig ourselves a path . |
| 11 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 12 | She grunted fiercely and set off up the slope . |
| 13 | The man looked at Clinton indifferently and peered down into the vat . |
| 14 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 15 | After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee . |
| 16 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 17 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 18 | 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments : |
| 19 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 20 | He slipped quietly in and glanced up at the windows and walls until his attention was drawn to a mop of fair hair sticking out from behind one of the back pews . |
| 21 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 22 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 23 | On a pitch of uneven bounce England were put in and shot out before the end of the day for 200 , David Smith , Lamb and Botham the only ones to make an impression . |
| 24 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 25 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 26 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 27 | While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap . |
| 28 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 29 | Well We came in one morning , the electrician and I , about five instead of seven , because we 'd done and er we used to nip in and kip down with the horses for ten minutes which was forbidden , to sleep in the colliery . |
| 30 | The choice then lies between staying in and going through with the change despite initial disfavour or staying in and changing either reluctantly or superficially . |