Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
| 2 | His feet seemed hardly to touch the ground as the wind drove him up the slope . |
| 3 | A girlfriend rang me up the other day . |
| 4 | Momentum carried her down the hull into the deadspace between the executive transporter and the bay wall . |
| 5 | There was no lack of willing help to carry it down the croft to the cliff edge from where it was carefully lowered to the beach . |
| 6 | I think it 's not very likely though is it , Christ Almighty we 're talking here about getting people on board to help you out the assessment are bit academic |
| 7 | In Sydney , while they waited for a steamer to take them up the coast to Newcastle , the Goulds stayed with Dr George Bennett , secretary to the Australian Museum . |
| 8 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 9 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 10 | He had a sudden vision of families in endless reproduction — Willmots and Stannards and the rest replicating themselves down the years , perfecting their most infamous capacities . |
| 11 | He said yeah so he said lend us your keys a minute give them back the keys , and he says and you 're finished ! |
| 12 | The sound of her mother singing followed her down the hall : |
| 13 | No doubt there was method in the smugglers ' madness , perhaps the very unsuitability of the area was a ploy to put us off the scent . |
| 14 | Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep . |
| 15 | He would let her father row him down the lake and dangle out a few lines to see if a tickle of fish would tickle his mood . |
| 16 | I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look . |
| 17 | She ran down the gangplank and watched as the dog heaved himself up the bank , dragging his burden . |
| 18 | Coffin saw him down the staircase and out of the front door , where they stood , still talking . |
| 19 | We made the cut in 1970 for my first British Open with Tom , but a bad last round put him down the field . |
| 20 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |
| 21 | The butler led him down the hall to a veneered door which he opened . |
| 22 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 23 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 24 | Then , as she had so many , she would not miss a few , he had the thought to sail them out the window . |
| 25 | The German turned round obediently and the orderly followed him down the wire . |
| 26 | The strangeness of this music puts you off the scent of its skillfulness , which is a shame in a way , but there 's absolutely no way it is unintentional . |
| 27 | The strangeness of this music puts you off the scent of its skillfulness , which is a shame in a way , but there 's absolutely no way it is unintentional . |
| 28 | Took about bloody half an hour to get it out the pan ! |
| 29 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 30 | Dad phoned me up the day before and , knowing I was about to go away on holiday , suggested we meet the next night , on the fourth of August . |