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

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1	That was my work , then when she came down on duty , she would sit one side of the table with her books and I would sit the other and count all the money , you see , then I would take this money er , in a bag , through on to the black through the , past the ticket collector and take it to the booking office and they took it from me and took it when they took their money to the bank , you see .
2	For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream .
3	I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about
4	For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers .
5	And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room .
6	Were there no jobs sort of in between the director and the
7	Er , although Shirley , she took over the ro , erm , she took the role half way through of down on the floor splitting things up things over , er , the rest of them were cutting out words and what have you , and writing out the script the way they wanted it , and she just stuck them on the floor , , and they changed the script , so in that respect she was
8	Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time .
9	Was told to contact Notts County Council concerning the state of Hill including the entrance to Hill Farm er where water runs off the road into the farmyard instead of down to the gully .
10	I thought it was a towing bar for that , but it 's another boat sort of down in the in the se se harbour .
11	Incidentally , the truss rod nut is located just inside the soundhole , instead of up at the headstock ; it 's perhaps a slightly heavier system , but easier to adjust .
12	I 'm wondering whether it was erm one ti er we , we walked up a hill and the the erm sculpture was sort of up on a hill .
13	As predicted last week after the document was widely leaked , here 's what the changes will mean : Gloucestershire is at present made of up of the County Council and six District Councils .
14	If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought .
15	They also promise a ‘ return to learn ’ entitlement of up to a year 's full time education for people aged more than 50 and who left school at 15 or earlier .
16	Railcard holders will be able to get further reductions of up to a third : children pay a flat fare of £1 single .
17	Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy .
18	These problems point very clearly to the need for training , and many library systems would benefit from the introduction of regular training courses ( of up to a week in duration ) on book provision .
19	As they migrate to their breeding sites , from distances of up to a kilometre and a half , many will be squashed by traffic ; sometimes singly , sometimes in pairs with the males already piggybacked on the females , in the characteristic prenuptial position of anurans ( tailless amphibians ) known as amplexus .
20	It will cost you two stamps , and I 'm afraid , a wait of up to a month , as our volunteers deal with the huge response we get .
21	Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors .
22	Gilts suffered too , with price drops of up to a point .
23	Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary .
24	A handful of scraps provided enough encouragement , and soon I was catching starlings in batches of up to a dozen .
25	As a result of central government policies , Islington social services suffered 8 per cent cuts in 1987/8 and all departments were asked to produce proposals for cuts of up to a further 25 per cent which they might have to achieve over the next two years .
26	Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems .
27	Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems .
28	Its report this week says serious delays of up to a year in awarding benefit to some disabled people was ‘ tantamount to maladministration ’ .
29	While most all-night recording experiments are over brief periods ( of up to a week ) , some very extended studies have been done , and there is no evidence that the patterns of sleep we observe over short periods ( after the first night ) are in any way peculiar to the unfamiliarity of the laboratory environment .
30	Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved .