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

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1 Judge Mark Dyer told Bailey there was no comparable case law to base a sentence on because of the immense damage he had caused .
2 The British Geological Survey pursued its investigations along and across the strike of the Middle Dalradian rocks , which hosted the Aberfeldy discovery , through its Mineral Reconnaissance Programme .
3 Her hair down and around her shoulders , her dress torn , her right shoe in one hand , and her bag in the other , the light of battle in her eye , McAllister stared at her saviour , Dr Neil , and he stared back at her .
4 First , a look ahead to the cup game with Bath on Saturday , which Mike wo n't be able to take part in because of a recent injury .
5 Under RSC Ord 22 , r3 or CCR Ord 11 , r3 the plaintiff may accept a payment in as of right within 21 days of receipt of notice of the payment in , provided that the trial has not begun .
6 money in but in actual fact it 's , it 's going out faster than it 's coming in .
7 Firstly , we 've had a feasibility study on as to what should happen to Chipping Norton , and it has been proposed that it should develop eastwards and this would embrace the land which is owned by the County Council , being the former being the existing County Council smallholdings at Fowler 's Barn and Tank Farm , and also the William Fowler allotments , and it 's suggested that a relief road and ring road will run from the A three six one Burford Road to link up with the A forty four somewhere not far removed from Swingswang .
8 It was always dim down here but Gloria did n't switch the light on because of being told to save electricity .
9 Consciousness is ideological in the sense that in human , historical life-processes ‘ circumstances appear upside down as in a camera obscura ’ and the ‘ phantoms formed in the human brain are also , necessarily , sublimates of their material life process ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 47 ) .
10 I always turn them upside down or against the wall for a few months and then I might become curious and look again .
11 Kaleidoscope thinking , then , involves taking an existing array of data , phenomena , or assumptions and being able to twist them , shake them , look at them upside down or from another angle or from a new direction — thus permitting an entirely new pattern and consequent set of actions to take place .
12 We , we distributed cos we 're lucky we 've just got schools in and around you know ?
13 A short waddle down and across the Champs Elysees found us sitting , once again , around a restaurant table .
14 A tiny point of bright golden pus appears and spreads like some fierce eczema down and across the right-hand side of her face .
15 read the lists down and across yourself without hearing the language helper say it first .
16 read the lists down and across yourself and have the language helper correct you if you do n't pronounce correctly .
17 you simply read the lists down and across yourself , without first hearing the words , and the LH should only stop you and say it right if you did n't
18 The hypocrite , presented in asides and soliloquies , is given the theatrical medium that suits exactly his isolation over and against his fellow men .
19 Its interest in maintaining ‘ sheer physical order and political peace ’ ( 30 ) may lead it to act against existing economic interests and class structure ; moreover , its involvement with other states is a basis for potential autonomy of action over and against groups and economic arrangements within its jurisdiction .
20 Finally , drape jelly snakes over and around the sarcophagus if liked for extra effect .
21 had to perform them , it had a remedy over and against its assignee by an express covenant for indemnity contained in the assignment to Mr. Mahmoud in 1986 .
22 With a quick nervous glance up and down the road , she stepped into the house and closed the door .
23 The interventions of Sparta outside her borders after the 470s were erratic : she seems not to be able to make her mind up whether to be an imperialist power or to be Little Sparta .
24 However , try these five examples using both clean and distorted sounds , and then make your own mind up as to which works best .
25 Theda huddled against the bedhead , drawing the covers up and over her breasts , as she watched him tidy his clothes and wrap the wrecked neckcloth carelessly about his throat .
26 What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign .
27 Oncoming bikers seemed intent on taking the short cut up and over the Aussie 's Nissan .
28 ‘ Well , I 'm sick of heaving trays up and down the stairs .
29 It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember .
30 Tension in the neck and shoulders can be eased by circling the shoulders up and around a few times backwards and forwards and by circling your head slowly down to your chest and then up so that your neck is stretched with your chin in the air .
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