Example sentences of "[adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In every case , blood was taken on admission for determination of carbamylated haemoglobin .
2 Century Theatre 's production plays out the twists and turns of these conundrums at lightning pace and essential split-second timing , carried on wave after wave of Stoppard 's ever-inventive language .
3 A bus would repeat itself every hour and he 'd say , run that one down , or that was running it down hour after hour until about seven o'clock when certain buses were run in .
4 THE LEADERSHIP of the Scottish Labour Party yesterday played down talk of division between moderates and a group led by Mr George Galloway who founded Scotland United — a loose grouping of MPs , trades unionists and other prominent personalities — committed to home rule .
5 We may have to bring in assistance from outside to deal with specific problems , and Mr Whittaker 's network of contacts could be used for this purpose .
6 James hurried upstairs , calling for an attendant , and found Mary Duncan trying to reach the iron-barred window , her shackled ankle attached to the bed which she was dragging along inch by inch behind her .
7 Isabel Lavender began to smooth down finger after finger of her gardening gloves , intent upon maintaining appearances , even through domestic tasks .
8 Modern deposits are not , it seems , laid down layer upon layer over a wide area .
9 Like being terribly thirsty and gulping down glass after glass of water .
10 Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn .
11 the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client .
12 He will take over responsibility for broadcasting from the Home Office in addition to administering the new national lottery .
13 Robert Atkins took over responsibility for sport at the Department of the Environment , replacing Colin Moynihan .
14 Syrian forces control much of eastern and northern Lebanon , and since early 1987 have taken over responsibility for security in West Beirut .
15 Clearly , the sooner it is vested the better , as the fund will take over responsibility for maintenance on a regular basis .
16 Its tales of euthanasia , bungled operations and sexual grapplings are enough to keep a Carry On team in business for life .
17 Crime — Fraud — Fraudulent trading — Investigation by Serious Fraud Office — Applicant charged with carrying on business of company with intent to defraud creditors — Whether power of Director to compel answers to questions ceasing once applicant charged — Criminal Justice Act 1987 ( c. 38 ) , s. 2 ( as amended by Criminal Justice Act 1988 ( c. 33 ) , ss. 143 , 170(1) , Sch .
18 What the apparatus ‘ sees ’ is the decay of the Z o into an electron and a positron ( an antielectron ) flying off back to back from the point of the collision .
19 In France , the one country that had developed a strong tradition of vernacular opera with its own different aesthetic , it needed only a visit of an Italian company playing a repertoire of opere buffe to spark off one of the most celebrated of musical civil wars , the querelle des bouffons , a war which was renewed a quarter of a century later when the pro-Italian faction set up Piccinni in rivalry with the now gallicized Gluck .
20 However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed .
21 Inside the 13th century castle , there is a new condensing boiler — the highest efficiency system available — with a back up boiler in case of extremely cold weather .
22 There , he opened the case , took a trowel from it , and began to dig up bulb after bulb from a long flower-bed on the other side of a path near the fence .
23 On this morning however , they dallied somewhat so that each might have the off-chance of that little bit of news that other people call gossip , which the other might add to the jigsaw of seemingly useless information built up bit by bit in small minds .
24 Two teenage boys , Neil and Simon , with muscular dystrophy , immobilised now forever , propped up side by side with twig-arms disposed lightly on clean sheets and skeletal intelligent faces cocked at unnatural angles , open-mouthed , amongst the pillows .
25 A white cat and the marmalade and white lay curled up side by side in an armchair .
26 They sat up side by side in the bed , naked , listening , but Valerie no longer felt safe .
27 October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon .
28 And the job there was to pick up tray after tray of tiny little sprigs about that high in little tiny paper cardboard boxes .
29 Do n't ignore this legal obligation , otherwise you could be ordered to pull down or open up work for inspection at your expense .
30 Furthermore , he adds , the division is in a good position to drum up work in co-operation with or via its connection to BT 's facilities management firm , Syncordia , and its international network services organisation , Global Network Service .
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