Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we just get fifty or sixty back for the |
| 2 | So they move three or four from the mixed ability middle band up to the top band , and three or four down to the middle band . |
| 3 | All the time , the gun was in his hand or close by on the floor . |
| 4 | While Frank was ‘ climbing , fighting , playing , & robbing orchards ’ , Coleridge was more likely to be found in the meadows by the River Otter — first of those rivers , brooks and springs that were to work so powerfully on his mind — or close by at the sandstone cavern known as Pixies ' Parlour , where with the ‘ hand of … childhood ’ he carved his initials in the rock . |
| 5 | They would go out Glen Baily and past loch and then right over into Glen Shee and that up over the Devils Elbow then . |
| 6 | But there was a lot of them they used to work with er the oil lamps and that out in the henhouses. the hens eggs , they feed at night . |
| 7 | In the back , squashed in beside two hot and complaining children , Molly tried her best to restrain the youngest on her lap from wrenching open the door and free-falling out towards the autostrada . |
| 8 | She had undergone a sea-change into something rich and strange down in the depths of Lucifer . |
| 9 | The ones who had stopped were looking over their shoulders at a cordon of men drifting in twos and threes out of the side streets and doorways and converging on the play . |
| 10 | Nearly all the schools responded to the request ( 34 out of the 36 liaison group schools and 30 out of the 33 second phase schools ) , but some of these did not provide all the information asked for . |
| 11 | By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building . |
| 12 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 13 | Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment . |
| 14 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 15 | " Lagoon " is a bit grand : it 's really just a big old swamp , surrounded by droopy trees with their roots half in and half out of the water . |
| 16 | Half in and half out of the cabin door , she watched the approach of three figures . |
| 17 | She adds ‘ Our children ( 20 and 18 ) are both at the stage of being half in and half out of the nest ! ’ |
| 18 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 19 | He was half in and half out of the cloakroom , stripping off his ski-suit , jumping about on one leg with his other foot caught in the elasticated cuff . |
| 20 | The alarm was raised when the train stopped half in and half out of the station , and its driver radioed to say there was fighting on board . |
| 21 | At a nearby door , half in the house and half out of the house , they found the body of her boyfriend , Jamie Saunders , who was 22 and who lived at the house with his mother . |
| 22 | Applications totalled 96 — 35 more than last year and 22 up on the previous highest total two years ago . |
| 23 | It will audit 175 out of The Times top 1,000 companies and 67 out of The Times top 500 financial companies . |
| 24 | The Company had a share capital of £30,000 , and six out of the ten directors were from Yorkshire ! |
| 25 | In the case of rent and other payments of a periodic nature , the creditor may prove for any amounts due and unpaid up to the date of the bankruptcy order ( r 6.112(1) ) . |
| 26 | Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results . |
| 27 | As late as 1977 the biggest five firms in aerospace , office equipment ( including computers ) , scientific and photographic equipment were still American , as were the biggest four in paper and wood , the biggest three in vehicles , the biggest two in electronics and rubber , and three out of the biggest five in petroleum , industrial equipment and food . |
| 28 | And all up under the ? |
| 29 | were gon na meet Albert and all up in the park last night . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for him , the lady 's husband had also spotted his illicit signalling from the bedroom and grabbing his machine-gun he went to the window and shot the hang-glider pilot and all out of the sky in a hail of bullets . |