Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had a riot and the bloody natives burned part of the place down a week before it was due to open . |
| 2 | She heard the rattle of the curtain rings as the blackouts were pulled across , and then the click of the switch on the standard lamp as Bella put on the light . |
| 3 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 4 | I took a last look round , then only had to kick the top edge of the kite up a little for it to take the wind and lift . |
| 5 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 6 | It is important to know what the acceleration of a body down a surface would be without friction as a start to explaining its actual acceleration . |
| 7 | We 've got one corner of the garden out the front and if the wind 's in the right direction it neatly puts them all together . |
| 8 | The subject was a book I had just published on the history of the world over the past 60 years . |
| 9 | Although Decimax 's current ad shows these switches to be of the keypad variety , our unit used membrane types ; each push of the switch on the plus or minus end gives a corresponding level change ( indicated by the LEDs ) on that particular frequency . |