Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 2 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 3 | Slice fungi and fry down with the butter and onions until all the liquid has evaporated . |
| 4 | As the shadows lengthen , the men can be seen standing around with a pint of beer in hand , while mothers keep watchful eyes on the kids and catch up on the latest gossip . |
| 5 | ‘ We should get six top international players and a number of international referees and sit down with the law-makers so that all points of view are aired . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 7 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 8 | Some might well be Balliol supporters and go along with the Earl for that reason . |
| 9 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 10 | Later , well into the night , Mina and Kāli wrap blankets round their shoulders and walk out through the village . |
| 11 | Cancel the wedding or the holiday , sell the theatre/football/movie tickets , put the dog in kennels and get down to the Wembley Exhibition Centre … sharpish ! |
| 12 | He said the key to SmithKline 's success was its ability to market and sell brands and cash in on the potential of new products . |
| 13 | I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light . |
| 14 | Fluffing her hair in a fine halo around her head with brisk brush strokes , and sketching in warm-toned eyeshadow , mascara and lipstick , Belinda was soon ready to slip into matt black court shoes and go out to the veranda . |
| 15 | The practice in the club eventually leads on to grading competitions where new players try to lose their white belts and progress up through the colours until , usually as young adults , they experience the magical moment of putting on that black belt for the first time . |
| 16 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |
| 17 | The voice seemed to seep through the seams of the farmhouse , echo up the mountains and ripple back around the flowers and empty champagne bottles . |
| 18 | Regrettably , even today , there are a number of health service insiders who feel that they are an exception to these general rules and look down on the ways of industry with the patronizing assurance of those who know that ‘ we are different ’ . |
| 19 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |
| 20 | ‘ I suggest that we try to put our differences aside for the next few hours and get on with the business at hand . ’ |
| 21 | Yet it is easy for pioneer users and IT investors to remain with the tried and tested applications and miss out on the cutting edge opportunities just around the corner . |
| 22 | But oh , the glory and the convenience of skiing in resorts where you step into your bindings and ski down to the lift without setting foot to snow , where you cruise all day on networks so meticulously designed that you have but to descend to find another fan of lifts at your disposal . |
| 23 | Bond 's technical wizard Q ( Desmond Llewellyn ) and new assistant Eve Barker , from BBC 's Born Kicking , realise the security implications and come out from the shadowy world of espionage to help publicise them . |
| 24 | The next day Signor Merli came to the bank , ostensibly on business , and whispered to me that some of the prisoners had decided to leave their hiding places and strike out across the Via Emilia towards the high Apennines . |
| 25 | They were required to leave their beds and get out of the hostel by nine o'clock in the morning , and they were not expected to hang about any more until about five or more in the evening . |
| 26 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 27 | The only uncertainty is how the Lord is going to play it this time : start with the two of trumps and lead up to the ace , start with the ace and run down to the two , or mix them around . |
| 28 | When they land the young ones break lanes and stream off down the corridor , hustling for position . |
| 29 | Some universities now have deputy or pro vice chancellors , who chair major committees and stand in for the vice chancellor . |
| 30 | are now going to look at these figures and come back to the next meeting er with some comments , with regards to their projects . |