Example sentences of "[prep] a row of " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 'll be no Jaguars racing at le mans this summer … the Oxfordshire team have pulled out after a row of regulations … reason is there V12s have n't got a chance against the turbos of the porsche and peugeots … |
| 2 | She drove as if Lucy was beside her — usually she cursed every cut-throat city driver — and sucked the hell out of a row of pre-rolled cigarettes , cigarettes rolled hastily at red lights , slamming in and out of gear . |
| 3 | It is in the middle of a row of other useful buildings , including the potting sheds and forcing houses . |
| 4 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 5 | In places the platform loggia was formed of a row of Doric columns , as at Negombo . |
| 6 | On the first floor landing , there was Vern sitting on one of a row of grey school-type chairs . |
| 7 | The ponies were tied up in the shade to the branches of a row of gum trees which divided the two pitches . |
| 8 | Objections could certainly be raised if your house is semi-detached , or forms part of a row of terraced house . |
| 9 | This latter device consisted of a row of boxes containing basic items of nav equipment to be found in the aircraft . |
| 10 | In more extreme manner we might wish to register our displeasure at the felling of a row of fine trees for a road-widening project by saying that they had the right to be left in peace . |
| 11 | The last of a row of elms near the Rookery were cut down in 1898 . |
| 12 | Our quarters consisted of a row of cells , sparsely furnished , but clean . |
| 13 | There was a narrow alley with dustbins in it at the bottom of the garden and , beyond that , the rude and unkempt backsides of a row of tenement houses with blind , curtained windows and washing ( long pants , vests , sheets , shirts ) limp in the windless air , strung out on high lines running from pulleys at far-up windows.Tin baths , like giant snails , stuck half-way up the walls as if resting in a trip to the top . |
| 14 | Mick 's lay at the end of a row of long , low wooden buildings with a careful air : there were no guards or electric fences or anyone to be seen at all , but you got the feeling it would be inadvisable to appear shifty in any way as you traversed the path . |
| 15 | And if you look at the roofs of a row of houses , a few days after any snow fall , some roofs are free of snow quite quickly , and some take much longer , even although there 's no sun . |
| 16 | Success was only achieved in the construction of the two central rail stations , Potsdamer and Anhalter Banhofs ; and in the construction of a row of boulevards in the south part of the city bearing ( characteristically ) the names of illustrious generals such as Yorck , Gneisenau , Bülow , Kleist , and Tauentzien . |
| 17 | Maxim was sitting on a wooden bench in the uncertain shade of a row of poplars and chatting to two small schoolboys in fresh whites . |
| 18 | The house was one of a row of nineteenth-century brick artisan dwellings whose neat and harmonious proportions were now being ruined as recent prosperity allowed the enlargement of windows and the addition of porches , complete with brass carriage lamps and , Tallboy thought vindictively , bloody tubular bells . |
| 19 | In a street not far from Wymark Street the same demolition firm was disposing of a row of tenements . |
| 20 | The effect was of a row of fantastic helmets . |
| 21 | Each element of the results matrix is obtained by multiplying the elements of a row of matrix P by the corresponding column elements of matrix Q and adding the results . |
| 22 | Seems she just stepped off the pavement to get in front of a row of people and … ’ |
| 23 | Therese , conscious , as was everyone else , of a row of gargantuan proportions going on in Gesner 's dressing room , was blithely uncaring . |
| 24 | And it it was quite strange , it was just sort of a row of houses |
| 25 | David had been right , thought Juliet excitedly , as they approached the first of a row of huge old houses . |
| 26 | The most celebrated was the saving of a row of trees threatened by a road scheme . |
| 27 | Christina joked , before Stephen guided them out of the lobby and down a path past a row of mahogany trees separated by bright thickets of hibiscus . |
| 28 | It was next to a postcard-seller , and to get to it you had to go past a row of very strange postcards stuck on the railings : views of Cairo , oleographs of Levantine saints , scenes of the Massacre of the Marmelukes and from the Great War of Independence , portraits of the Madonna and of St Catherine , and , of course , hundreds of indecent photographs , very precise in some respects , strangely vague in others . |
| 29 | The Headmaster turned towards a row of small carts sitting on a miniature railway track that stretched the length of the corridor . |
| 30 | Every male from the neighbouring estancias , except Luke , who was off moving the cattle , seemed to be gathered round the paddock to watch her as she set off in the milky , misty morning light towards a row of poplar trees . |