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Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel .
2	We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes .
3	The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else .
4	Local social services departments ( formerly local health departments ) provide day nurseries for some up to the age of 5 .
5	Theodora had passed none of that on to the Archdeacon , and he had himself offered no judgement .
6	We 've got some soup so we thought well we can make some of that up in the morning then we could just warm it up for the dinners
7	Can we dispose of that out of the way ?
8	We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen .
9	On the marsh behind the Butts and Great Winox , are the Fresh Marsh then below this out to the river The Commons and Salts , then the Hage Brook and near to Marsh Farm , Parsonage land .
10	You mentioned already er over a hundred thousand people have been er displaced by the fighting , and we were able to visit some of these up in the north to , er watch the Cambodian Red Cross hand out some er aid from Oxfam and other agencies .
11	( They passed the cost of these on to the Trustees . )
12	But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up .
13	If we draw a join a few of those up through the centre , just so we can mark the angle .
14	Ooh look there 's quite a lot of tools there there was another one of those out near the this
15	Prices like that up in the Ipswich area .
16	What a queer thing , Uncle Walter phoning like that out of the blue , ’ she said , taking off her coat .
17	And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one .
18	How would you like to be an innocent old woman quietly doing your knitting , and then get a letter like that out of the blue ? ’
19	Does it feel like that down on the field , do you really start to feel frustrated ?
20	It was n't like that down in the boiler room .
21	What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ?
22	Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes .
23	By contrast , and despite there being a duty on local education authorities since 1944 to provide for all up to the age of 19 , significant numbers of young people with special educational needs began to enter colleges only in the mid-to-late 1970s .
24	Though he was opposed to the offer of the Crown to Cromwell in the spring of 1657 , with that out of the way he came round in support of the revised draft of the Humble Petition and Advice ( June 1657 ) .
25	And , with that out of the way , unless Ven Gajdusek wanted more — and she would n't put that past him — she just had to ask , ‘ Milada Pankracova 's leaving your employ wo n't affect anything , will it ? ’
26	For those out in the cold , the wind and the rain , trying to sell books , that traditional Christian Aid Week lunch of soup , bread and cheese is ‘ magic ’ .
27	One in each down at the bottom yeah .
28	We share costs , but the cost of living is very low in this out of the way corner of Greece .
29	Cut any large shallots in half down through the root .
30	If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned .