Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We can make a choice between struggling on or surrendering forever to the forces of death . ’ |
| 2 | Occasionally , hormonal disturbance , particularly of the thyroid gland , may lead to a slowing down or speeding up of the metabolic rate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , yes , ’ Farouk cut in and glanced down at the notepad in front of him . |
| 7 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 8 | As the fans tune in and line up for the battle ahead . |
| 9 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Everyone comes in and goes out by the front . " |
| 12 | Two detective constables walked in and listened eagerly to the latest gossip , glancing over to the superintendent with new animation in their eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Anyway , in the disco we began to quarrel and just after nine we packed it in and went back to the van . |
| 15 | Any problems like that do n't hesitate just join in and jumping ahead on the question of questions all our speakers like you to ask them as they occur to you . |
| 16 | While she was looking at the pictures , Griselda , Anna 's mother 's cat , came in and jumped on to the cat woman 's lap . |
| 17 | The hearing was told Bill Vincent dived in and swam away from the yacht . |
| 18 | The hearing was told Bill Vincent dived in and swam away from the yacht . |
| 19 | No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He took no notice , but turned in and drew up in the courtyard . |
| 23 | A man came in and sat down in the seat opposite him . |
| 24 | They went in and sat down by the fire . |
| 25 | Quadrant Park is a great , glitzy three- storeyed chasm of a club in Bootle , which on Saturday nights becomes a suffocating fleshpit of 2,500 north-western ravers tuned in and turned on to the house sound of Merseyside . |
| 26 | franchise , so the difference the difference now , is that they will be able er in some , certain circumstances to come in and bid directly at the outset . |
| 27 | Well I mean it 's , it 's well as soon as , it 's , well did you write in and object in within the time ? |
| 28 | Their leader had quiet words with the cardinal , who smiled , clapped his hands , and a green baize-covered table and two chairs were brought in and set down in the middle of the hall . |
| 29 | He had his back to me , so I just sneaked in and hid down by the side of the dresser . |
| 30 | Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar . |