Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes . |
| 2 | Some were convincingly disguised as country houses , with entrance gates and spreading lawns , such as the Black Horse , Northfield , Birmingham or the Hare and Hounds , Kingstanding Road , Perry Barr . |
| 3 | But if you have the luck to come of country stock then you should never sever your roots , no matter how great the temptation to ‘ improve ’ yourself , or to inhabit more glorious scenery , or to be nearer a railway station . |
| 4 | Well New Zealand looks like country and |
| 5 | Appreciating that Britain had become even more vulnerable to air attack , children living in ‘ target areas ’ , such as London , were again evacuated into country areas , and in June 1940 , Strand-on-the-Green School was closed in Chiswick and reopened in Cornwall . |
| 6 | It may be so , if it is a personal Christmas card list , for example ; but if the same modest list were to be headed ‘ suspected sympathisers with the X Party ’ ( or the Y terrorist group ) , or ‘ directors of companies believed to be trading with country Z ’ — there could be danger to those on the list if it fell into the hands of evil-minded zealots — and perhaps then the shorter the list the greater the danger . |
| 7 | Be extra careful when walking along country roads . |
| 8 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 9 | The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment . |
| 10 | Agricultural productivity varied from country to country with its structure . |
| 11 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 12 | During a gathering of families at beautiful Seal Park , to christen a grandchild and celebrate the return of the good life after the War , a battle for succession is resolved in Country ( BBC-2 9.00pm ) continuing ‘ The Richard Eyre Season ’ . |
| 13 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 14 | The designs differed from country to country , but the general trend was from geometrical shapes — circles , triangles , quatrefoils — in the earlier period , to curved flamboyant forms in the later years . |
| 15 | Many of our best supporters increased their majorities , and a new team of MPs committed to country sports has been elected . |
| 16 | Angela had always preferred old oak and mellow English fruitwoods to mahogany , and was attracted to country furniture because it was the sort of simple , practical furniture that ordinary people would have had in their farmhouses or cottages . |
| 17 | I am a country living junkie and my appetite for magazines devoted to country life is insatiable . |
| 18 | The analysis can be made more sophisticated , and sometimes more realistic , by introducing alternative assumptions relating to country size . |
| 19 | The tale soon ran round Devonport — of a dead body carried across country by three men and a woman . |
| 20 | A computer controls Challenger 's gun , so it can shoot accurately at moving tanks , even when the vehicle is itself driving across country . |
| 21 | And my favourite fantasies were of walking across country after country until I reached some strange place no one had ever visited . |
| 22 | ‘ But the other path passes through country that is without sound or sight or contact . |
| 23 | There were numerous poems written about country estates in the eighteenth century , but again it is difficult to know how many of these Leapor read , though she must have read some . |
| 24 | What makes them interesting is the interplay between depressed singer and band that is capable of creating subtle guitar and synth textures , providing languid settings for a piece like Free , then pushing into country , or a blues riff ( on Get Out Of My Mirror ) , and proves that it can really stretch out when given a chance , as at the end of New Day Dawning . |
| 25 | The lenders are being separated into country groups — Britain , the United States and Canada — and then separated again into separate projects . |
| 26 | Let us now consider some of the economic and political factors generally incorporated into country risk assessment models applicable to non-OECD countries . |
| 27 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 28 | Many of the letters we receive come from people living in country towns and villages concerned about proposals that would smother green fields with development , destroy attractive open spaces within the built-up area or ruin important views . |
| 29 | Ancient peoples and those living in country districts must have been more sensitive to nature spirits , or the entities underlying physical form . |
| 30 | As he waited , Hazel realized more fully than ever how dangerous was their position , without holes , wandering in country they did not know . |