Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rustling in her stiff new overall — Mr Mulgrove 's administrative eye had rested in disappointment on the extra foot of Anna 's grey corduroy skirt that hung below it — Anna followed Tim out of the warehouse and down a grim cold staircase on to the shop floor . |
| 2 | Out into the spooky snicket and down a few yards towards the churchyard . |
| 3 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
| 4 | And she did ; but the Inglese had disappeared through the window and down a drainpipe . |
| 5 | Corbett followed him across the yard as the English envoy made his way carefully through the throng and up a flight of steep stairs into the main keep of the castle . |
| 6 | He swept along the corridor and up a flight of stairs with the Englishman at his heels . |
| 7 | He led the way along the hall and up a winding flight of stairs to the upper level of the house . |
| 8 | They pushed their way through the hall and up a stone-flagged passageway , past grated windows where poor debtors shook their begging bowls through the bars and whined for alms . |
| 9 | They had to dismount and force their way through , past the Conduit and the Tun and up a small alleyway which led into the Bear and Ragged Staff . |
| 10 | Twelve such operations later , you have your year 's month headings entered , and only then realise that you should have started not at cell A1 ( the top left hand corner of any spreadsheet ) , but in a bit and down a bit — you have to put row headings in as well . |
| 11 | Chewing on her lower lip , she trundled after him along a flagged passageway and up an ornate wooden staircase . |
| 12 | I 'd ordered champagne and flowers because a honeymoon is once in a lifetime but we ended up carrying our own luggage in pitch darkness across a car park and up a huge flight of stairs . |
| 13 | His next project is to take seven mentally disabled people to Everest Base Camp and up a 22,000ft high peak . |
| 14 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 15 | Cross over the stile on the left and follow the path down , over the stream and down a slope . |
| 16 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 17 | We moved through the town and up a hilly field covered with vines before we entered a forest where the branches grew close above the path . |
| 18 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 19 | Go through the entrance in its high wall and up a narrow internal staircase to a viewing platform . |
| 20 | These mixers , which send water to the bath or up a flexible hose to a shower head , take their supply from the bathroom hot and cold pipes . |
| 21 | You can now move between the pages of a spreadsheet just by clicking on icons that move up and page and down a page . |
| 22 | About an hour before midnight , Cleo and Javelot were taken across the yard and up a rickety stair on the outside of the main house . |
| 23 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 24 | If you wish you can use your accommodation for changing as the uncrowded beach is only five minutes walk through our car park , across the road and down a 100 yard footpath . |
| 25 | Lucca 's , across the lorry-ridden road and down a small sour-smelling alley , was as small as the shop from which Fosdyke had led them . |
| 26 | I did a combined cycle and hiking day ; rode over the hill to Wainuiomata and down to the Rimutaka Forest Park , then tramped through the bush and up a long ridge to the top of Mount McKerrow . |
| 27 | Right , but one of the things we have to remember is , and I know it 's sort of a sha , but you have the experience of last year and , that has to be shared you know to sort of cut the corners yo you 've got ta pass it back a year or up a year , whichever whatever happens and you 've made a very valid comment there and you need to make note of that that , you know somehow you have to work round Rob to get it |
| 28 | The data transmission path of this system has proved tortuously slow , having to pass through three programs each way and down a 1200 Baud communication line ; however , it does prove the principle . |
| 29 | " I 'll tell her myself , " he said , and the crowd separated as he turned on his heel and strode along the quay and up a flight of steep granite steps into the village . |
| 30 | Many busy working people have this quality of appeal , workpeople who will share an interest in what they are doing in an office or down a hole in the street . |