Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 2 | Faced with the problems of letting businessmen make money out of the railway timetable without cancelling the Eastern service as uneconomic , he was the very model of a fifth-century Hellene under a tree in the Agra . |
| 3 | Richard Charkin is the chief executive of Reed Consumer Books and — particularly since he led Reed out of the Net Book Agreement ( NBA ) last year — a major force for change in the business . |
| 4 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 5 | Harry laughed as he refastened the windows and led Madeleine back into the hall . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's no need to look so worried , ’ he observed softly , yanking Isabel back to the present . |
| 7 | She stormed off and away and the last thing she saw was Felipe helping Mitch out of the pool , his dark face still lightened by a very wide grin . |
| 8 | Bringing tea out on the lawn , |
| 9 | But we also had to leave because we chucked Wally out of the band . |
| 10 | Later , David pulled on Clare 's towelling bathrobe and led Josh down to the kitchen . |
| 11 | I 'm just about to put it away in my file when I see that there is something else pencilled upside down at the bottom . |
| 12 | We got a name , we left Riverside and we slung Wally out of the band . |
| 13 | Here we show that the carrier generates an alkalinization outside and an acidification inside glial cells , and transports anions out of the cells , suggesting that there is a carrier cycle in which two Na + accompany each glutamate anion into the cell , while one K + and one OH - ( or HCO ) are transported out . |
| 14 | FIG. 4 The glutamate uptake carrier transports anions out of the cell . |
| 15 | The second solution is to try to carry ambiguities around in the form of constraints [ Sussman & steele , 1980 ] . |
| 16 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 17 | He smiled in a way that had charmed the matrons of Europe , and led Hyacinth over to the cameras . |
| 18 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 19 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 20 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 21 | Victoria was asleep and the detective paused a few yards away to swing Richard down to the ground . |
| 22 | Clive 's estimate was that the Company and various private individuals made £3m. out of the change of rulers . |
| 23 | I saw one player push fans out of the way at the Australian Open this year . |
| 24 | I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding . |
| 25 | ‘ She 's been through a terrible ordeal , ’ she told her brother severely , drawing Ellen out of the solar with her . |
| 26 | It was the water authority of Bradford that was largely instrumental in keeping Washburndale out of the National Parks . |
| 27 | The Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , strongly supported the scheme to attract money back into the country , while it was opposed by the Finance Minister , Bertie Ahern , and most of the Labour Party Ministers in the Coalition Government . |
| 28 | " Keep an eye on our friends , " he muttered and while Brady took up position beside the door , Tom helped Patrick over to the bar . |
| 29 | It would be a shame to see Rocky dropped again after apparently playing very well since he came into the side , but at the same time I ca n't really see him keeping Strach out of the team . |
| 30 | There are profound differences , obviously , between blasting birds out of the sky with a shotgun , sitting quietly on a riverbank waiting for the fish to bit , chasing foxes or stags over open country on horseback or sending dogs down a hole to dismember badgers . |