Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slammed the saucepan of potatoes on to the draining board . |
| 2 | It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round . |
| 3 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 4 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 5 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 6 | Alternatively the other detector can take a lower-resolution spectrum of objects up to a 10 000 times fainter . |
| 7 | the arrangements it makes for the admission of students on to the Bar Vocational Course ; |
| 8 | The nationalists promised to end the drain of resources out of the country , to industrialize in order to supply home consumption . |
| 9 | Yelling the news to Douglas , who was swording with Sir Walter Comyn , Ramsay dashed through the struggling mass of men back for the stairway , Down he raced , two steps at a time , and out again into the night . |
| 10 | And what does say about that ? says that we will keep the level of charges down in the now privately owned companies providing public utilities so there 'll be nothing for dividends . |
| 11 | The comparative simplicity of the equipment and the fact that it 's so easy to transport and launch has got loads of newcomers out onto the water . |
| 12 | A master of ceremonies is needed to dispatch successive pairs of defendants out of the room , in order to keep the game going continuously . |
| 13 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 14 | Mark lines of bandages on to the mummy 's limbs and head with a pointed cocktail stick . |
| 15 | I must also say that I resent the tendency of the Act to line the pockets of lawyers out of the tragic situations of families and children in trouble . |
| 16 | Canon Frances Briscoe ( York ) said failure to pass the legislation to the grassroots would be a ‘ betrayal of women out in the dioceses , waiting in the wings ’ . |
| 17 | In the mood of schoolboys off on an expedition to plant stinkbombs on speechday , the party set off from Westminster Pier , shadowed by two police launches . |
| 18 | WARRING factions in Bosnia ordered a ceasefire yesterday and agreed to open three routes for the safe passage of civilians out of the stricken capital Sarajevo . |
| 19 | Henry unscrewed the top of the brass cylinder and shook out a bundle of sticks on to the table . |
| 20 | Raynor had tipped a basket of logs on to the fire , and warmth and light were washing over the room . |
| 21 | Today synthetic diamonds are commercially available in a range of sizes up to the present maximum , the de Beers ‘ Synthetic Rotary Dresser ’ stones , which have a weight of 2 milligram , ( equivalent to a cubic diamond of 0.8 mm edge ) . |
| 22 | Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns . |
| 23 | The transfer of sums out of the creditors ' total in the balance sheet does not , of itself , imply dishonesty and would not be an offence under the Theft Act 1968 , since any creditor able to prove the sum owing within the six year limitation period would be paid , regardless of the accounting treatment adopted . |
| 24 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 25 | Ted Heath ( I really ca n't get that knighthood out ) , looking spot on for Ascot , leads a bunch of frontbenchers and a gaggle of rubber-neckers out of the chamber for ceremonial fraternisation with the Lords and then back . |
| 26 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 27 | Then erm names , babies I if a baby 's christened Timothy er it gets called Timmy or Nicholas gets called Nicky , which sort of ties in with the biscuits being called bickie and horsie and doggie and all this sort of ee things that you say to babies . |
| 28 | Staff Sergeant McRobb supervising the loading of vehicles on to a Royal Corps of Transport craft at the military Port of Marchwood near Southampton |
| 29 | He pulled open the rear door and tossed the package of books on to the back seat , together with his gear . |
| 30 | Analysing the substantial drift of evacuees back to the danger areas , the Air Raid Precautions Co-ordinating Committee concluded that ‘ a detailed examination of available materials shows the basic cause to be the failure of the scheme to take account of either the viewpoint or the welfare of those concerned , be they evacuee or host ’ . |