Example sentences of "an [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where , as in this case , a party undertakes to make a payment because by so doing it will gain an advantage arising out of the continuing relationship with the promisee the new bargain will not fail for want of consideration . |
| 2 | One evening , as an excuse to get out of the house , she went with a letter to the post office . |
| 3 | In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’ |
| 4 | He had more than an hour to fill in before the meal : he had a maid bring him beer . |
| 5 | The Empress was particularly fond of the gondola and often spent an hour drifting about on the water accompanied by one of her guests . |
| 6 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 7 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 8 | If an owl swoops down on the kangaroo rat , the kangaroo rat is alerted by the sound of wind passing over the bird 's wings and can evade the grasping talons . |
| 9 | It provides an opportunity to get out of the private rented sector . |
| 10 | Business analysis should be looked upon as a two-way exercise — an opportunity to inform , help and convince , as much as an opportunity to find out about the organisation . |
| 11 | Rather than respond defensively Labour should see this as an opportunity to break out of the strait-jacket politics of the Thatcher era . |
| 12 | As far as the passengers were concerned , the unscheduled stop and the sight of an ambulance drawn up on the quayside lent an element of excitement to spirits which were beginning to flag slightly as the end of the cruise loomed closer . |
| 13 | Miltiades ' last operation ( in 489 ) against the island of Paros , in the Cyclades , can be seen as an attempt to move on to the offensive against Persia after the defensive stand at Marathon . |
| 14 | I made an attempt to move out of the way then it struck me . ’ |
| 15 | In an attempt to cash in on the UK corporate market 's growing appetite for high speed personal computer graphics , NEC Corp has introduced its Image Series of desktops , launched in the US in February ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 16 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 17 | At first light the Commandos are on the move again in an attempt to keep up with the retreating enemy . |
| 18 | If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far . |
| 19 | giving an errand to take out to the place you know because er if |
| 20 | In towns , give way to buses indicating , an intention to move out from the bus stops , if you can do so safely . |
| 21 | The " full recovery plan " would set aside 5.4 million acres , at a cost of 32,000 jobs in the timber industry : an alternative drawn up on the instructions of Interior Secretary Manual Lujan would protect 2.8 million acres but result in the loss of 15,000 logging jobs . |
| 22 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 23 | So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test . |
| 24 | The Doctor and Blake walked down an alleyway heading back to the entrance to hell . |
| 25 | The biggest excitement of the war for us happened when an aeroplane came down on the hill above Clove Lodge , which is just across the valley from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 26 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
| 27 | ‘ Shout down any coal pit in Yorkshire and half a dozen fast bowlers will come up ’ was an adage born out of the 30s depression when cricket was one of an extremely limited range of alternatives to a miserable , lowly paid struggle in coal mining . |
| 28 | This talked about tormentosas , con gran aparato eléctrico , and we experienced one of these during an evening stroll up above the town and got completely drenched . |
| 29 | The definition of an inn is to be found in s.1(3) of the HPA 1956 — ‘ an establishment held out by the proprietor as offering food , drink and , if so required , sleeping accommodation , without special contract , to any traveller presenting himself who appears able and willing to pay a reasonable sum for the services and facilities provided and who is in a fit state to be received ’ . |
| 30 | Indeed there is now an incentive to hold on to the assets because if such assets are retained until death they receive a capital gains tax-free uplift ( TCGA 1992 , s62(1) ) . |