Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of the occasional tables , as she passed , she noticed a large silver-framed photograph of two young men , presumably the Baron and his brother . |
| 2 | While we do not expect the Revenue to provide a canteen service , presumably the inspectors and their staff have tea-making facilities at their offices . |
| 3 | That Nottinghamshire went on working reflects not simply the self-interest of its miners but more importantly the culture that their predecessors ( many of them their ancestors ) helped to create and transmit to the present . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not saying I did n't lift my arm and I 'm sorry for the embarrassment it has brought on the club and our supporters . |
| 5 | Kelly also looked good at taking on the opposition but his final shot was appalling . |
| 6 | Suddenly the whip that his wife held slashed across Morag 's cheek . |
| 7 | Today , the rose , especially the H.T. and its offspring , the Floribunda , is very big business indeed , and played for huge winnings , with large multi-national companies paying fortunes to have a new rose variety given the company name . |
| 8 | Patrick Lundy had made many friends amongst London 's large Irish community , his parentage , and especially the fact that his father had fought and died in the General Post Office , making him welcome . |
| 9 | More than 100 Challengers are used by disabled clubs up and down the country and their popularity is growing . |
| 10 | Spid I remember when me and my Mum had to catch one in a fishing net and throw it down the toilet cos my Dad were n't there and it was about that big ! |
| 11 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 12 | Neil adds that they 've collected money for charity up and down the mountains and its restored his faith in human nature |
| 13 | Why do some women see marriage as an absolute priority from the start of a relationship , yet others would n't sashay down the aisle if their lives depended on it ? |
| 14 | The rest of your army is there purely to support these guys and tie down the enemy while your core units get to work . |
| 15 | But while it was being chopped down the Collector and his men had emptied their guns into the hacking sepoys , and the door had become tightly jammed with the dead , many of whom still had bayonets wedged in their lifeless hands . |
| 16 | Lee Doherty set Alan Dornan free down the right and his cross from the by-line was headed home superbly by Garry Haylock . |
| 17 | Grip the club so that your thumbs are extended down the shaft and your palms are facing towards your body . |
| 18 | He told a man who would be called as a witness he helped others to hold down the victim while his mate killed him . |
| 19 | Indeed , we recently saw that the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) has taken actions to run down the region and its potential . |
| 20 | Very soon dirty plates began to cascade down the chute and my job was to knock the food remains off them and transfer them to a mechanical washer . |
| 21 | Matata poled gracefully ; he could have been punting down the Cam as his pole pushed blue and white water lilies aside . |
| 22 | The removal of Franca from the upper storey was perhaps the sign that her arrival was imminent . |
| 23 | ‘ Nor would any outlaw strip the corpses so carefully : jewellery and silver maybe , perhaps the horses and their harness , but not to the extent the porter described . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps the fact that his mother had only recently died had something to do with it . ’ |
| 25 | Obviously the fact that your Sexy Lexy was married did n't trouble you then . ’ |
| 26 | She was the tenant of the flat and did not want to move so the daughter and her husband had no rights to that accommodation . |
| 27 | Farther south , the Andean civilisation had more similarities with Mesopotamia than with China ; so the idea that its shaping influence came from across the Pacific seems especially far-fetched . |
| 28 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 29 | So the fire and its subsequent flood , which destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors ' problems , did not mark its end . |
| 30 | So the comb and its weights have to pull the knitting down . |