Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hurried up the narrow steps on to the parapet of the curtain wall . |
| 2 | Like the mash tun , it has a slotted base and the liquid runs out of the vessel over a bed of spent hops . |
| 3 | These send the expectant mothers out on the tiles again where , if they are mated once more , they will be fertilized again and then carry two litters at two different stages of development . |
| 4 | Both Governments regard the current upsurge in loyalist murders as an urgent incentive to get the political parties back around the negotiating table . |
| 5 | But they were forced by bad weather to abandon their efforts to entice the marooned males out into the safety of deep water . |
| 6 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 7 | After the ceremony , the newly-weds cycled the eight miles back to the reception ( held in a friend 's garden ) on their tandem . |
| 8 | The ill wind that blew one of the pre-tournament favourites out of the Selborne Salver sent a breath of good fortune over Mark Treleaven at a sun-drenched Blackmoor Golf Club on Saturday . |
| 9 | ‘ They 've stopped ringing because I pulled the bloody wires out of the wall . |
| 10 | Melinda waded out after me and we climbed up one of the mooring ropes on to the deck . |
| 11 | Lauren , 29 , says : ‘ More business would come here if we had a proper exhibition and conference centre and the right facilities out at the airport . ’ |
| 12 | Fix the stable doors on to the wall with royal icing , with the upper doors opening outwards . |
| 13 | The 500 tons were not specific goods because , in the words of Lord Hanworth M.R. ‘ There was no ascertainment or identification of the 500 tons out of the cargo in bulk . ’ |
| 14 | One by one , he put the drowsy birds on to the top perch . |
| 15 | It is almost certain that we shall not be able to mount a nationwide sample survey with sub-samples taken from the Scottish Highlands down to the West Country . |
| 16 | In its enclosed valley basin the fume and grime from the cheap coal of its suburban collieries with iron works , brass foundries and glass works was already driving the wealthier merchants up into the healthy heights of Clifton by the 1720s . |
| 17 | What I hear , which was straight off the phone last night , is that the Dutch fans will team up with the English fans , and back the English fans on to the beach and they will try and drown a few of the English people and they will throw bombs at them . |
| 18 | The yard was full of movement : of boys leading the incoming horses off to the stables , and bringing fresh ones . |
| 19 | She had only seen him when she had climbed the wooden steps up to the promenade : he was out of sight of the kiosk , waiting across the road , almost hidden in the dark cave of an amusement arcade . |
| 20 | Simon stood watching for a moment , then , adjusting the expression on his face , he walked down the wooden steps on to the beach . |
| 21 | She carried the empty plates out into the kitchen . |
| 22 | The sky was soon dark and the sound of heavy bombs exploding died away , to be replaced by shells passing over the orchard from the British guns down by the river Orne . |
| 23 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 24 | Inevitably this began to attract the foreign fleets back to the Klondyke trade . |
| 25 | Granitic batholiths welded the geosynclinal rocks on to the continent . |
| 26 | Whether Nadirpur liked it or not , it would be impossible to keep either the British or the French police out of the affair . |
| 27 | Susan , an unwonted flush on her pale cheeks , was picking up the wet things out of the grate . |
| 28 | I stayed at the Cove watching cloud shadows racing across the great limestone cliffs until the sun moved round to the west when it was time to race the old ladies back to the village for the tea and scones of Beck Hall . |
| 29 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 30 | The few ships out in the harbour sent up fireworks and flares , and the low hills around town echoed with the wail of sirens and foghorns — at least until the dark did set in at about three in the morning . |