Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides . |
| 2 | Hence , the person who used the sulk response successfully in the past will continue to use it , because it worked . |
| 3 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 4 | Mrs Sutcliffe , wearing dark tinted glasses , listened carefully in the packed public benches as Mr Lightman read out an affidavit by Oliver Duke , once the boyfriend of Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones , in which he admitted taking part in a scheme to get the money secretly from the newspaper to Mrs Sutcliffe . |
| 5 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 6 | To promote OTC products successfully through the high street chains nowadays , you have to have a substantial turnover ( £10–15m or so ) to be able to afford the TV advertising . |
| 7 | In other countries too , inflation will be a worry right at the start of the coming upswing . |
| 8 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 9 | So there was that allocation of system design responsibility right at the outset and that determined who would write the specification for what . |
| 10 | So erm you see that 's , that 's why when we had this we paid somebody to put this in cos the gas company would n't put my my boiler right out the back . |
| 11 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 12 | She must have made a huge error in giving change somewhere along the line and she felt defeated . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a change somewhere in the east . |
| 14 | This was no kind of place to be caught reading in : a macho gay bar in a five-fathom basement somewhere beneath the charred East Twenties . |
| 15 | Therefore for these people it may be sensible to attend both Fellowships right from the start . |
| 16 | I think it would prefer to blame somebody who 's already responsible — as you 'll know if you really do read the papers — for every dead dog and blocked drain right across the world . |
| 17 | a move and that really he 's quite fortunate to have a buyer somewhere within the price he wanted . |
| 18 | But clearly we can not blame a single organic agent for the simultaneous extinction of all the varied and unrelated groups of dinosaurs , the pterosaurs , the marine reptiles , the ammonites , the belemnites , the rudistids and many minor groups besides at the end of the Mesozoic . |
| 19 | Few can rival the Natural History Museum 's offer of drinks beneath its dinosaur , but Christmas and new-year parties have become a nice little earner for museums and galleries right across the country . |
| 20 | Until the industrial action frustrated plans for more formal INSET workshops , the open nature of the school 's formal consultative procedures , and the vigour and commitment of key individuals , seems to have spread discussion of library matters and project-involvement widely across the school . |
| 21 | Tantalisingly , at night , I might hear the plaintive hoot of a tawny owl somewhere in the trees , beyond my little world . |
| 22 | We went into Sheffield right into the city and went to a pub . |
| 23 | He did n't answer it personally , eventually about three weeks afterwards I got the letter from Customs and Excise , who deal with this , saying , in a rather remarkable last paragraph , We have to charge V A T right across the board . |
| 24 | Citadel : VII , 8 on the other hand , has excellent protection but is long and sustained with the crux right at the top when abseil retreat is both difficult and uninviting . |
| 25 | Douglas affected a dispatch box pose which enabled him to deliver the juicier bits of the legal volte- face to a point in the mid-distance somewhere above the Opposition gallery . |
| 26 | Those grant-maintained schools are using that money effectively for the benefit of the school and , more importantly , of improving education for the pupils attending those schools . |
| 27 | Right , so it 's one I want to , I did n't get time to do last week was to tell you where you specify that you want to perform a Chow test , right , and the computer will generate both of both of Chow 's tests with one , the first one is where we 've got enough observations in each sub sample , right , to estimate the regression , right , however , you may , you may detect and figure there is some structural change right at the end of your er sample of observations or alternatively right at the beginning . |
| 28 | So you 're kicking against the pricks right from the start . |
| 29 | He has paired replacement Lloyd Walker with Jason Little in the centres against Neath . |
| 30 | Many scientists were astonished at home that evening to see the faces of the two chemists appearing on the television as Dan Rather on the CBS evening news headlined the Utah work as ‘ a remarkable breakthrough ’ . |