Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 2 | I 've got you down as here for the last three . |
| 3 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 4 | The ‘ cheekbone ’ , which runs down from just behind the eye , is cut back so that it will finish up barely in proud of the surface . |
| 5 | The piles are driven down from above into the swamp , but not down to any natural or ‘ given ’ base ; and if we stop driving the piles deeper , it is not because we have reached firm ground . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) Stephen Small raced away from a defender and was brought down from behind inside the area — an indirect free kick for obstruction instead of a penalty . |
| 7 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 8 | As the final election results come in from all over the country , it is clear they will be helping to run many Soviet towns and cities . |
| 9 | Russia 's independent Union of Drivers has sent trucks to the coal fields to distribute the food donations that have poured in from all over the country . |
| 10 | Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road . |
| 11 | ‘ I had no idea what the response would be , but all of a sudden all this equipment started coming in from all over the world . |
| 12 | The thousands of items on her shopping list are brought in from all over the world in quantities that could feed a small town — 70 tonnes of sausages , 300 tonnes of tomatoes , 250,000 pints of milk , six million eggs and 350,000 litres of fresh orange juice . |
| 13 | The voice of the future mimes the supposed experts who presume to know what lies in wait : ‘ Soon the ecopolitical system will crumble , and sado-experts will fly in from all over the world and poke into its smoking entrails and utter smooching agnostications ’ ( 15 ) , or : ‘ The ecozoologists will then fly in from all over the world and poke its entrails and fraudcast a stooging diregnosis ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 14 | The voice of the future mimes the supposed experts who presume to know what lies in wait : ‘ Soon the ecopolitical system will crumble , and sado-experts will fly in from all over the world and poke into its smoking entrails and utter smooching agnostications ’ ( 15 ) , or : ‘ The ecozoologists will then fly in from all over the world and poke its entrails and fraudcast a stooging diregnosis ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 15 | They knew I was catching the plane ; they came running in from all over the place with their big zoom lenses and what they want is : the butterfly 's wings are broken , so let's get a picture of her face . |
| 16 | The enormous number of immigrants who poured in from all over the country congested the old area within the medieval walls of the City and created new suburbs all around . |
| 17 | Work has come in from all over the UK , and even the charity Farm Africa uses the Hoy facility . |
| 18 | When we heard about , when we heard about the faxes that had come in from all around the world . |
| 19 | It is of vital importance that any agreement which is reached between the partners in relation to the taking of decisions is set down in writingpreferably in the partnership agreement itself ( Clause 17.09.1 ) , but if not there then at least in the minutes of the meeting at which it was concluded . |
| 20 | You were only allowed to have it down to just below the bottom of your ears — which looked absolutely daft . |
| 21 | As I say sir we put this matter down till later in the day , the defendant wi will not appear to be represented therefore the committal will have to be dealt with by re reading out all the statements . |
| 22 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 23 | Blueboy 's songs , all clocking in at well below the boredom threshold , are a naively affecting clutch of simple , sparse tunes , engagingly ramshackle and , except for a nostalgic over-employment of the jingle-jangle pedal , refreshingly unreliant on an arsenal of guitar effects . |
| 24 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's the Watts 's house down by there near the public bar . ’ |
| 26 | The last brush stroke was put in by 3am on the day it was unveiled in the children 's ward at South Cleveland Hospital ! |
| 27 | Keys may be obtained after 2.00pm on Saturday of arrival & keys should be handed in by 10.00am on the Saturday of departure . |
| 28 | ‘ Draw them under shadow ’ may mean no more than ‘ pull them out of the hall and into the dark ’ , but it implies also ‘ going we know not where ’ , dying and being handed over for ever to the powers of evil . |
| 29 | However , any benefit from this will not flow through until later in the year . |
| 30 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |