Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |
| 2 | Pulling power may be slightly down as it Deems to fall off quickly against head winds or uphill gradients , when running constant changing up and down with overdrive even on the level . |
| 3 | This entailed a dual arrangement : an ordained regular abbot ( i.e. a monk , one who followed a regula , or rule ) ran the community 's liturgical work and day-to-day upkeep from the inside , while , from the outside , a lay aristocrat assumed control of the community 's landed endowment along with responsibility both for the military service owed to the king from the men beneficed on the monastery 's lands , and often for hospitality at the monastery for the king and his entourage . |
| 4 | Felawnah , supplemented along with Dayflower earlier in the week , finished fourth , the same place she occupied in the Newmarket equivalent . |
| 5 | Anyway , the people she met were all in a hurry , striding along with heads down in the rain , and no one appeared to notice her . |
| 6 | Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business . |
| 7 | Three days later , Richard came along to Grace early in the morning , and told her that there was a call for her . |
| 8 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
| 9 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 10 | News of its intended publication filtered through to Orkney late on the Saturday night . |
| 11 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 12 | And they were unlucky to have hooker Malcolm Thomason carried off with concussion midway through the half . |
| 13 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 14 | ‘ We put Zebedee back in the horse box and he went off in disgrace back to a local farm . ’ |
| 15 | A distant clock in Maryhill to his left began to chime and was answered by another , far off in Springburn away beyond the football ground and the timber basin . |
| 16 | ‘ The danger otherwise in many companies is of top management being cut off from people right at the front end . ’ |
| 17 | BTW Gavin is off to Holland today for a week . |
| 18 | Mr Howard dismissed the French and German threat to press on with unity ahead of the rest of Europe . |
| 19 | Not quite knowing what to expect other than that she wanted a new job , Jean turned up for work promptly on a cold , wet , Monday morning but found no one to let her in . |
| 20 | Better prospects had by now opened up for Charles elsewhere with the death of Pippin of Aquitaine in December 838 . |
| 21 | United were put up for sale yesterday in a shock move at Bramall Lane . |
| 22 | Shops were coming up for sale all over the precinct . |
| 23 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
| 24 | At last , on 2 January 1989 , only forty-eight hours before the waiting period was scheduled to expire , the rollers returned , rising up like submarines out of a smooth blue sea and snapping shut like mousetraps . |
| 25 | John Ferguson , the Canberra Raiders wing who lines up against Widnes tonight in the Foster 's World Club Challenge , is little known outside rugby league circles , but within the game he commands a whispered respect his more famous namesakes might envy . |
| 26 | THE organisation representing rank and file members of the Republic 's army was up in arms today over a new security vetting procedure . |
| 27 | She was brought up in France just before the Second World War , but as an adolescent she was sent to spend a year with relatives in Germany where she was forced to remain when fighting broke out . |
| 28 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 29 | Eckford started up in business again as a shipbuilder and soon re-established his high reputation . |
| 30 | So marriages break up , the man becomes rootless and homeless , and can either end up in prison again within a short time or else drift into destitution . |