Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bringing tea out on the lawn , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The body of the third man lies chest down in the mud , head to one side . |
| 9 | All her creditors were asked to execute the Debt of Trust , and agree to accept payment out of the Trust Estate . |
| 10 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 11 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 12 | £4bn to pull Industry out of the doldrums |
| 13 | When the goat was made ready , Loopy Lil helped Dot up onto the little red-painted cart with the empty milk cans clattering on the wooden seat beside her , while Mrs Hollidaye took the leading-rein at the front . |
| 14 | In the absence of other , countervailing forces , this externalization of Oedipal conflict would seriously threaten the whole psychological basis of culture ; it would threaten to undo all that millennia of civilization had achieved and would plunge humanity back into the savagery from which it had originally so painfully emerged . |
| 15 | Marshes play an important part in keeping sediment out of the bay 's waters . |
| 16 | And if you think I 'm going to bail Sleet out with the money Francis left me when you ca n't even be bothered to learn the most basic elements of running an estate then you 're mistaken . ’ |
| 17 | And anyway , by now the son of the house had come in for his midday meal , turned on the television , created havoc out of the quiet day . |
| 18 | He 'd tried to frighten Jacqui off with the telephone messages and vicious note , but if she persisted … |
| 19 | He was thirty five yesterday but Oldham ruined the celebrations , knocking Town out of the Coca Cola Cup , one-nil … |
| 20 | For most people in Britain , the Medical Research Council 's study , published in February 1990 , revealing the strong possibility that fathers who worked in the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria had passed leukaemia to their children in their sperm , moved speculation out of the realms of the circumstantial into that of the confirmed . |
| 21 | The drift had become a tunnel of overgrowth that dripped water on to the roof of the van . |
| 22 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 23 | It bucked and screamed , then charged head down into the blackness of the space between the high walls . |
| 24 | Once you 've done that , you can then start taking really strong action about keeping traffic out of the City , because you 've got the alternative . |
| 25 | I caught influenza along with the chicken pox . |
| 26 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 27 | As for the comment you attributed to me , that Britain has a budding romance with pressurised water reactor , I have always been an advocate of keeping government out of the bedroom and would , therefore , never have allowed such a comment to pass From my lips . |
| 28 | By drawing engine cooling air in through the left-front wheelarch , for example , Renault engineers have not only been able to enhance the Clio 's aerodynamics , but also protect the engine from damage caused by ingress of foreign bodies . |
| 29 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 30 | There are , however , several situations in which the Commission is bound to pass information on to the competition authorities of member states . |