Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . |
| 2 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’ |
| 3 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 4 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 5 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 6 | She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck . |
| 7 | The proposals include : setting up a system of area judicial debt recovery tribunals by upgrading the debt recovery function of County Courts to the level of District Registries of the High Court ; putting County Court bailiffs on to a results-based salary similar to that of High Court bailiffs ; and putting a £500 ceiling on County Court bad debt claims , with larger claims going to the High Court where better results can be achieved . |
| 8 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
| 9 | ‘ That was the FRG from Soltau — they 've cleared most of the tasks from last night , less a Chieftain power pack change that 's in hand and one badly bogged tank — they 're having to find a route in for a second armoured recovery vehicle , and , of course , the last Challenger pack change — how are the lads doing on those packs that came in this morning ? ’ |
| 10 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 11 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 12 | ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy . |
| 13 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 14 | Above this moving carpet , the sand in the air reduced visibility down to a hundred yards . |
| 15 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 16 | Van Cleef was cast opposite Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) and The Good , The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966 ) and immediately became a major star and a poster pin-up . |
| 17 | Luib had laid Madra down on a faded red couch . |
| 18 | Then again if you 're I think the only thing on that I would say is that , creativity in as a positive , erm , that that your there are loads of possibilities about how you could actually try and create situations , which would actually break down barrier , one of the barriers you had was , I 'll give you one if you give me one . |
| 19 | He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in . |
| 20 | Also , the libraries and record offices contain plans of these houses along with a vast amount of pictures of Edinburgh . |
| 21 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 22 | The reasons for this decentralising movement towards the growth of workplace bargaining activity in Western European countries have been in part economic , as a result of generally high employment and continuous economic growth in the post-war years to the mid-1970s along with a varying capacity to pay of separate employers . |
| 23 | Write all your metaphors and similes down on a separate sheet of paper . |
| 24 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 25 | At the first pruning , take each stem down to a suitable bud , so that ideally it is reduced to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10 cm ) in length . |
| 26 | For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon . |
| 27 | One diver on a previous expedition to the Arctic got bent after chasing an elusive jellyfish down past a safe limit and having his regulator freeze up . |
| 28 | Full of hope , I took the watch in to a smart business in the Rue du Rhône , where it was examined by a stately manager . |
| 29 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 30 | He paid , and still looking thoughtful , escorted the young girls through the mahogany and brass revolving doors into the burgundy-coloured , upholstered , mirrored and gilded interior of Le Grand Condé , where in heaps of rosy cumulus , nymphs with come-hither looks and not a stitch on except a few blue satin ribbons frolicked between the mirrored panels on the walls and ceiling . |