Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market .
2 Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery .
3 When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland .
4 His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope .
5 It 's a great way for producing long banners or waste paper but And if you wan na actually reverse this process alt M takes it back the other way .
6 A girlfriend rang me up the other day .
7 I cried out and then more waves came up over my face and … well , just coughing and Bert carrying me up the cliff . ’
8 Do n't let the ultra-sophisticates put you off the guided city tour .
9 For a moment there was nothing to do but let the shabby old SE haul him up the last stretch , so Lambert actually relaxed and momentarily enjoyed his peace .
10 Momentum carried her down the hull into the deadspace between the executive transporter and the bay wall .
11 Rolling over , he assumed a sitting position and used his heels to push himself up the slates on his backside until he was seated astride the apex of the roof .
12 ‘ We were relying on him and Steve McManaman to attack them down the flanks , and when Mark dropped out it reduced our attacking options . ’
13 so and not only that if Gary meets me up the train station we can go straight into town on our own , leave him with Pat .
14 There was no lack of willing help to carry it down the croft to the cliff edge from where it was carefully lowered to the beach .
15 Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part .
16 Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils .
17 I think it 's not very likely though is it , Christ Almighty we 're talking here about getting people on board to help you out the assessment are bit academic
18 DC Robin Lane leads them up the alleyway to the front door .
19 We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in .
20 In Sydney , while they waited for a steamer to take them up the coast to Newcastle , the Goulds stayed with Dr George Bennett , secretary to the Australian Museum .
21 Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation .
22 Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside .
23 But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path .
24 He had a sudden vision of families in endless reproduction — Willmots and Stannards and the rest replicating themselves down the years , perfecting their most infamous capacities .
25 He said yeah so he said lend us your keys a minute give them back the keys , and he says and you 're finished !
26 The sound of her mother singing followed her down the hall :
27 Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom .
28 No doubt there was method in the smugglers ' madness , perhaps the very unsuitability of the area was a ploy to put us off the scent .
29 Harvey watched me down the drinks and he downed three just to keep me company .
30 Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep .
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