Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
| 2 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 3 | The Hetherington study shows the increase in the amount of parliamentary news carried on three of the main news programmes , Channel Four News , BBC1 's Nine O'Clock News , and ITN 's News at Ten : |
| 4 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 5 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 6 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 7 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 8 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 9 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 10 | Congress ( I ) and its allies gained only enough seats to form a minority government ; the party performed particularly badly in its traditional northern " Hindi belt " heartlands , where the BJP made a major impact , eventually emerging as the main opposition party and gaining over one-fifth of the total seats . |
| 11 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 12 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 13 | Local teams confirmed their strength by notching up three of the four titles , with Lismore romping to a 38–9 win in the intermediate decider and Loreto , Omagh , retaining their crown with a 21–14 win over St Michaels . |
| 14 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 15 | Erm there 's , they have n't added up one of the boxes , and I believe that in terms of erm its actual cost . |
| 16 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 17 | She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks . |
| 18 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 19 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 20 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
| 21 | Eleven days ago these sides contrived to conjure up one of the really memorable Croke Park finals that wo n't be easily forgotten by those fortunate enough to have been present . |
| 22 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 23 | ‘ We were doing some vocals and Damon ( Albarn ) was in one of his mad moods and was climbing up one of the acoustic screens they had in the studio . |
| 24 | After the shooting of a UNICEF worker on Jan. 5 and of a third Red Cross worker on Jan. 15 , decisions were taken to pull out 15 of the 40 or so aid workers reported to be left in the city . |
| 25 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 26 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
| 27 | One very small piece could kill her , ’ shouted back one of the men . |
| 28 | You can get special surface-mounting boxes which have a slot to take mini-trunking , but if these are not available , simply run the mini-trunking up to the edge of the box and knock out one of the holes in the side . |
| 29 | What it does not mention is that the little club from the wrong side of the Mersey crashed out 9-1 in the replay , their worst defeat . |
| 30 | Walter Sisulu , ANC deputy president , declared that " no part of South Africa , be it Ciskei , Bophuthatswana or Kwazulu , should be no-go areas for the democratic forces " , singling out three of the bantustans where political activity was restricted and whose leaders were opposed to the ANC . |