Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gritted my teeth and hung on for the climb up to Ana 's Cross on the peak of Spaunton Moor . |
| 2 | Then he hesitated because he had left it too late and he was concerned that Tom would walk in through the door again at any minute . |
| 3 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , be quiet , do , you stupid dog ! ’ scolded the housekeeper , slapping the animal smartly on his nose so that he leapt back down off the bed on to which he had just jumped . |
| 5 | Yes , it 's in a building attached to the wall of the Convent , so that it 's people can walk in off the street directly into The Porch . |
| 6 | As the dust spun slowly down through the sunlight on to Miss Harker 's silent form , he waited patiently at her elbow like a wizened monkey whose master , the organ-grinder , has fallen asleep and forgotten to start the music . |
| 7 | As an afterthought , Ellwood emptied the priest 's pockets , then scrambled back on to the rock and pushed Carey 's belongings in between the boulders along with his own clothing . |
| 8 | Simon Povoas , for example , proved himself an excellent deputy to the injured Dean Richards at No. 8 and the Tigers ticked along despite the absence also of Les Cusworth , Paul Dodge and John Wells . |
| 9 | And a there was a domestic one in each group there was one along near the baths in among the thirteen , and there was another white one near Old Gate Bridge . |
| 10 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 11 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 12 | 6–6 The Session agreed that the choir should sit in front of the pulpit along with the Precentor instead of in one of the church pews as formerly . |
| 13 | A new magistrate was sworn in before the sitting yesterday of Whitby Court . |
| 14 | Looking down from the balcony on to the terrace , she observed that the cat was undisturbed by the gulls . |
| 15 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 16 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 17 | After a time we dropped down from the hills on to a flat gravel plain where the track ran straight as a drawn line . |
| 18 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 19 | A small river runs into th sea at one side , but on the other there is a large expanse of grassland which runs down from the walls almost to the sea . |
| 20 | Between Newbury and Reading a middle-aged man had pressed his knee against hers , and she had had to change compartments , doing her best to look unconcerned about it , as if she often heaved her suitcase down from the rack halfway between stations to try the view farther down the train . |
| 21 | The falcons share with the owls ( p. 177 ) a number of marked behaviour differences from hawks , eagles , buzzards and other members of the Accipitridae ( p. 70 ) ; their droppings fall straight down from the perch instead of being squirted away ; they build no nest of their own ; they kill their prey by biting and severing the back of the neck ; they hold their food in one claw ; the young hiss when afraid or threatening ; and they may bob their heads to show curiosity . |
| 22 | Breathe in from the diaphragm slowly through the chest to the mouth counting 1-2-3-4 then blow it back to the diaphragm with another 1-2-3-4 . |
| 23 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 24 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 25 | and at the same time can I say that you do not equate elitist views and pleasures and pastimes that they may have down in the county somewhere with the kind of deprivation that people face in the inner cities . |
| 26 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 27 | He pointed melodramatically , running a finger along in the air ahead of him , peering with burning eyes as if indeed watching an army of the dead , invisible to the rest of us . |
| 28 | If not , does he have the firepower to bring the curtain down on the champ shortly after the fight 's sundown beginnings ? |
| 29 | Ace 's finger remained clamped down on the trigger even after all seven bullets had gone and the slide had locked back in the ‘ empty ’ position . |
| 30 | She sat down on the bench opposite to him and looked at his fat baby face , which was now showing some concern . |