Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 2 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 3 | Wander down to the Etangs d'Ixelles or over to the Square Marie-Louise to admire the lush art-nouveau mansions built from fortunes amassed in the steamy Belgian Congo . |
| 4 | He has recovered his form superbly after a broken finger threatened his career last season , and England boss Graham Taylor said : ‘ Sometimes when you 're with a Second Division club or out in the far North East you can feel forgotten . |
| 5 | Sweeping up from the adventurers ' blind side ( either a ridge line above their heads or out of the mist ) comes a ragged flock of Carrion , one of these undead birds for every two adventurers ( but at least three in any event ) . |
| 6 | Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned . |
| 7 | In prisons , in the trenches , in the factory canteen or down at the dole office , it helps to cushion the harshness of life . |
| 8 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 9 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 10 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 11 | Red card and back to the subs ' bench for Jim . |
| 12 | He kept rolling , still hanging on to his weapons , and fell over the front of the Jeep and on to the pavement outside . |
| 13 | Since the causal chain passes through perception and on to the rest of the nervous system , perhaps triggering action , it must become physical again . |
| 14 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 15 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 16 | The gang rivalries of the street were kept within bounds and out of the world of adult entertainment . |
| 17 | Hibs , while not exactly setting the place alight , have at least the comfort of knowing that a win would lift them above St Johnstone and back into the top half of the table . |
| 18 | Though the journey from Godolphin 's house in Primrose Hill to the Tabula Rasa 's Tower was short , and Dowd got him up to Highgate on the dot of six , Oscar suggested they drive down through Crouch End then up through Muswell Hill and back to the Tower , so that they 'd arrive ten minutes late . |
| 19 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 20 | Senna lost his front left wheel in the crash and both cars bounced over the kerbs and out of the race . |
| 21 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 22 | This line can he traced , rather precisely , from New England , through south-west Ireland , via south Pembrokeshire and the Gower Peninsula , under the University College of Swansea , then south of the Kent coalfield to the Boulonnais and on as the Grande Faille din Midi far into the European continent . |
| 23 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 24 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 25 | His hands , sliding from her hair to her neck and down inside the filmy black blouse , denied the imputation . |
| 26 | The first people in each team place the keys down their neck and out through the bottom of their trouser legs or slacks . |
| 27 | The oil is getting into the wheel bearings and forcing grease past the oil seal and on to the brake shoes . |
| 28 | From here I walked on to Men Scryfa , an iron age monument and on to the Nine Maidens prehistoric stone circle . |
| 29 | A piece of smokeless fuel fell out of the grate and on to the hearth . |
| 30 | In this way , the compressions or sound waves pass through the throat and mouth and out through the lips , spreading in all directions . |