Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth , and the great river shrinks into insignificance as it dashes its angry waves against the walls and cliffs that rise to the world above ; the waves are but puny ripples , and we but pygmies , running up and down the sands or lost among the boulders . |
| 2 | ‘ We are very worried someone is going to fall down the cliff or slip off the ship and break something . |
| 3 | It says those who use radioactive material , mainly in medical or biological research , are now to flush waste down the drains or put low level solid waste out for normal dustbin disposal . |
| 4 | Now is not the time to rip down the wallpaper or tear down walls . ’ |
| 5 | Also , I 've decided not to brush down the table or re-mark it or clean the balls : I reckon a few bad kicks and some low-lying grit on the baize will unsettle him more than they will me . |
| 6 | Inanimate matter does n't answer back and if you get fed up with what you 're doing you throw it down the sink or get rid of it . |
| 7 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 8 | Every now and then I blew desperately down the throat or probed between the ribs for that almost imperceptible beat . |
| 9 | You 're expected to remember a whole process that you 're asking to you know explain how to fill in the form or use another system . |
| 10 | I watch the men and women as they crowd along the streets or sit in their cars and vans and buses and trucks , and their freedom seems inestimably precious , exotic and vicariously intoxicating . |
| 11 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 12 | ‘ He could have been eaten or run over or trodden on or blown away or fallen down a hole or trapped , ’ said Grimma . |
| 13 | She was twenty-three and could push down a house or build one , it was a glorious day and she was going to a party and sitting beside Matthew Preston . |
| 14 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 15 | You might fill in a creation or save date , to pick out files either before or after that date . |
| 16 | You have the opportunity in most schemes to make your wishes known by filling in a form or sending a letter to the trustees . |
| 17 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
| 18 | One by one , people come up to him and jump over the stick or crawl under it . |
| 19 | The bar at your local Beefeater has a friendly atmosphere , where you can relax over a drink or enjoy a delicious bar meal . |
| 20 | A sighted person can make predictions about the future course of tangible experience — falling over a precipice or hitting a wall — which to a blind man ‘ seem as strange and unaccountable as prophecy doth to others ’ . |
| 21 | I cooked it over a fire or dried it in the sun . |
| 22 | Aggression ( 5 credits ) : This decides if a player will duff over an opponent or avoid him . |
| 23 | The area where Julie and Elizabeth were killed is sparsely populated and most of the Zulu inhabitants live off the land or do odd jobs . |
| 24 | If there is no gatevalve in this supply , the cold water cistern will have to be drained : turn off the supply or tie up the ballvalve ( so that there is still a supply to the kitchen tap ) and open the upstairs cold water taps . |
| 25 | He 'll either have to off the lad or get him to work for him . |
| 26 | Machines that are considered ‘ out of the way ’ in a corner of the room will be relatively more unsociable if they block off a doorway or interrupt television viewing . |
| 27 | Minor offences , e.g. stepping off a pavement or shouting ‘ scab ’ activities generally tolerated in industrial disputes — were sometimes used as the pretext for an arrest . |
| 28 | Weathered clay barley-sugar edgings finish off a path or flowerbed with a crisply period touch , but aside from shoving a few in your handbag next time you visit Mount Stewart , they tend to be hard to find . |
| 29 | On at least a morning a week at ‘ family specialist ’ hotels , children are collected , given breakfast and taken on a trip or entertained for a few hours so their parents can enjoy a morning on their own . |
| 30 | Holly , ivy , mistletoe , real flowers and gilded artificial or dried sprays all look lovely hung on a wall or suspended from ceilings or in windows . |