Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 2 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
| 3 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 4 | They were coming down one of the streets that led to the square . |
| 5 | The very specimens to which Gould refers so casually in his letter , particularly those which came to be known as ‘ Darwin 's finches ’ , were to spark off one of the most controversial theories of all time . |
| 6 | Thus just over a quarter of libraries were carrying out two-thirds of the formal management training noted by our sample , constituting an inequitable distribution of available expertise . |
| 7 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 8 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 9 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 10 | ‘ We were doing some vocals and Damon ( Albarn ) was in one of his mad moods and was climbing up one of the acoustic screens they had in the studio . |
| 11 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 12 | Mick O'Shea , the surgical registrar on take and one of her old SHOs , breezed in as she was cleaning up one of the patients with a cut hand . |
| 13 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 14 | She was going along one of the corridors when Travis caught up with her . |
| 15 | A middle-aged man was bending over one of the beds , sadly digging up clusters of gold and russet dahlias . |