Example sentences of "open [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of almost every incident where the airbrakes open during the launch is that the pilot has failed to lock them correctly . |
| 2 | This was by far the most pleasant room in the school for it backed onto St. Martin 's Church and in the far left hand corner was a door , normally open during the summer , leading to the fire escape . |
| 3 | Exhibition open during the day and on evenings when there are performances in the Youth Theatre . |
| 4 | There is an Information Centre in a converted chapel at Llanwddyn , just to the west of the dam , open during the daytime throughout the summer . |
| 5 | There was a big double door kept permanently open between the two rooms , and it was as comfortable a place as you could imagine . |
| 6 | With winding street hidden behind massive stone walls , the old town is a must to visit , particularly in the cool of evening when the traders in the street markets display their wares and the old shops open after the afternoon siesta to sell gold , silver , leather and furs at reasonable prices . |
| 7 | It is obviously significant that many of the Minoan tomb entrances open towards the east ; the Temple Tomb and the Tomb of the Lady of Arkhanes both face east , the direction from which the rising sun 's resuscitating rays shine . |
| 8 | Ellsworth Kelly 's Documenta paintings open towards the end of the month ( 20 October-20 November ) . |
| 9 | And there are three convenient youth hostels open throughout the year at Totland Bay , Whitwell and Sandown . |
| 10 | COUNTRY SHOP OPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR |
| 11 | Waterstones will see to it that in 1993 bigger and even-better bookshops open throughout the land . ’ |
| 12 | The entrance to the house is through the central glazed doors on the north side , which open into the twenty-inch-wide hall . |
| 13 | Their lateral line organs are buried in canals which run along the head and body , and open into the water through pores . |
| 14 | The rooms all have windows on the garden side of the house , and doors which open into the corridor . |
| 15 | Neil , 31 , was found after neighbours at Westgate-on-Sea , Kent , saw his front door open with the milk outside . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , as I understand it , Jack — tell me if I 'm wrong — we open with the credits on telecine . |
| 17 | She read at night by torchlight , her own little door open onto the sandy hillside . |
| 18 | FOR the last lecture of the season Headley Horticultural Society members enjoyed pictures of Surrey and Hampshire gardens open under the National Gardens Scheme . |
| 19 | She noted the flowers agreeably disposed in a vase on the mantelpiece , the recent issues of magazines arranged upon the table , the Radio Times open upon the desk with a programme encircled in red biro ( a talk on Handel operas ) . |
| 20 | But there 's really no need to leave Tuscan for there is a delightfully decorated restaurant and the bar stays open until the early hours . |
| 21 | The exhibition , open until the end of the month , comprises a dozen knotted constructions and a series of ‘ combustions ’ produced by Jaccard over the past three years . |
| 22 | Large sliding doors open from the oak-floored corridor in the pavilion into the conference rooms . |
| 23 | Some of them had chains round their boats , fore and aft , to hold them together , do they d ha sunk ; busted right open from the swelling of the wood with too much water . |
| 24 | ‘ Was that window open in the bedroom ? ’ |
| 25 | … to see Mr. Wats , keeper of the Apothecaries Garden of simples at Chelsey ; where there is a collection of innumerable rarities of that sort : Particularly , besids many rare annuals the Tree bearing the Jesuits bark , which had don such cures in quartans : & what was very ingenious the subterranean heate , conveyed by a stove under the Conserveatory , which was all Vaulted with brick ; so as he leaves the doores & windowes open in the hard(e)st frosts , secluding onely the snow , & c . |
| 26 | Buckingham Palace said yesterday that most of the rooms normally open in the State Apartments will re-open on January 16 . |
| 27 | Please pray that as more opportunities open in the media they will be God-directed . |
| 28 | Those who fail are convinced that a horde of Undead emerge from portals which magically open in the tapestries . |
| 29 | Two exhibitions open in the Hall Napoléon on 6 November and are scheduled to close on 1 February . |
| 30 | SYCORAX SITS HUNCHED under the earth , her head fallen sideways , face up , on to her knees which her hands clasp ; her mouth — what is left of her mouth — gapes open in the direction of the ground above . |