Example sentences of "[adv prt] [num] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She battled her way to the last eight finalists of the 28th European Open Karate Championships , taking on 32 of the world 's best female karate exponents . |
| 2 | Refereed by Zimbabwe 's World cup referee , Kingsley Went , Malaysia went down 14–10 after an entertaining game . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've already paid down two-thirds for an artist 's cottage in Sausolito , a village across the other side of the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco . |
| 4 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
| 5 | Seven days before they had gone down 5-3 to the same opposition , despite playing the superior football . |
| 6 | Leftarm spinners Masood Anwaar and Leigh Beaumont , sent down 45 of the 55 overs in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Widnes , who had won the official version in thrilling style against Canberra Raiders before more than 30,000 fans at Old Trafford four days earlier , went down 31-6 to the Eagles , a team formed only five years ago and without a permanent home . |
| 8 | Steve Taylor , NUM branch delegate , said Mr Telford was protesting over allegations that British Coal was continuing to run down 10 of the 31 pits . |
| 9 | The Palace were also forced by injury to field a somewhat weakened side — but our new goalkeeper played a magnificent match , kept his team in the game in spite of intense Rovers pressure , saved a penalty , and the Palace only went down 1–2 to a very late goal indeed . |
| 10 | The FT-SE 100-Share Index had plunged 41 points by late afternoon , before staging a slight recovery to close down 36.2 on the day at 2,863.9 . |
| 11 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 12 | The Cowboys lost for the second time this season , going down 27–23 to the Los Angeles Rams when Aikman failed to produce a last-minute miracle . |
| 13 | It closed down 38 at a sickly 111p . |
| 14 | Ireland 's World bronze medallist went down 8–7 in a titanic battle with Russia 's Albert Pekov in their first round clash . |
| 15 | If one plucks a piece from one of these plants it will almost certainly break along one of the numerous joints that divide the whole plant into segments , right to the tips of the branchlets . |
| 16 | In the semi-final , in which I ran second , Cameron Sharp was in the lane adjacent to Chidi , who has a side-to-side action with his running which many felt made Cameron run along one of the lines so that he was disqualified . |
| 17 | As they walked along one of the stone-flagged paths and came to the gate in the flint wall they saw a neat pile of mowings waiting , apparently , to be composted . |
| 18 | Separated from Forte dei Marmi by the small Fiumetto channel , Marina di Pietrasanta stretches along one of the most exceptional beaches on the Tuscany coast — three miles of golden sand , up to 200 yards wide in places — simply perfect for relaxing , lazy days in the sun . |
| 19 | To reach it would mean travelling along one of the world 's great international trade routes , linking Leh with the central Asian province of Yarkand . |
| 20 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 21 | She was going along one of the corridors when Travis caught up with her . |
| 22 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 23 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 24 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |
| 25 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 26 | So successful had the Minogue Machine become that it was then able to turn down one of the most lucrative deals in pop music history . |
| 27 | Iraq and the Mujahideen claim separately to have shot down one of the Iranian aircraft . |
| 28 | Granny Smith , a neighbour of Mrs Dyer in Reading , swore that a brick found holding down one of the tiny cadavers was the same one that Mrs Dyer used to keep her flat irons on . |
| 29 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 30 | Looking down one of the Avenues is like looking at the inversion of a sunset . |