Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 2 | They really do n't seem to want to have that part closed off but that part along by the river and that seemed to be almost entirely er satisfactory to everybody and er Chairman fenced off one or two other people quite well . |
| 3 | Fancy ten minutes down by the river , dog ? ’ |
| 4 | Provided that at a meeting of a licensing board the chairman shall not have a second or casting vote on an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , and such an application shall be granted by the board only by a majority of the members thereof present and voting . |
| 5 | Pontin 's , for the second consecutive year , have agreed to stage and sponsor the championship , assisting the women 's game , which desperately needs the financial input and widespread television coverage enjoyed at present only by the men 's game . |
| 6 | They 'd gone to the loo together by the time I joined Bunny . |
| 7 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
| 8 | Four boys , drunk to the wide , started a mock fight down by the park railings . |
| 9 | Art has served his country town well this country town well , he lived he all his life all in a small cottage down by the river . |
| 10 | I 've a small cottage down by the coast — it is n't being used this weekend . |
| 11 | At the half-year , however , deficit down by a quarter from $31.9m to $23.7m reflecting sharp reduction in Q1 losses . |
| 12 | A large , brown bloodhound , Spot loiters menacingly by the door . |
| 13 | When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience . |
| 14 | Hold a baby or small toddler upside down by the feet ; an older child can rest face down across your thigh . |
| 15 | Their world is being turned upside down by the cable revolution and the string of multimedia technologies coming down the pike , but US telephone companies — both local and long-distance — will maintain strong credit quality throughout the 1990s despite major competitive , regulatory and technological challenges , Moody 's Investors Service Inc concludes in its annual report on the industry . |
| 16 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 17 | A friendly , anecdotal guide , he takes his readers gently by the elbow in explaining how , as depicted in the illustrations , war has developed . |
| 18 | Acting on this belief , he has : taken one of the most outspoken current-affairs programmes , ‘ Vzglyad ’ ( Outlook ) , off the air ; confiscated the property of the independent news agency Interfax , which was saved from closure only by the intervention of Boris Yeltsin and the Moscow city council ; suspended a free-thinking television news show called ‘ TSN ’ ; and consigned Radio Russia , Mr Yeltsin 's mouthpiece , to a frequency where most of the population can not hear it begin its broadcasts with phrases like ‘ In another move reminiscent of Stalinism , President Gorbachev today … ’ |
| 19 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 20 | Bryan Robson , doubtful for the World Cup match against Poland 24 hours ago , returned for United last night to cruise for 20 minutes before erupting into Captain Marvel , never shirking a tackle and being denied two goals only by the crossbar and a brilliant diving save from Alan Knight . |
| 21 | It 's used as a landing strip for emergencies only by the Luftwaffe . |
| 22 | Gaveston rose and came over , taking Corbett gently by the hand . |
| 23 | can be obtained from thebaine only by a series of elaborate and inefficient chemical processes . |
| 24 | The man in the attic had been dragged through the gaps under the roof to one of the empty houses next door , and from there to the bushes down by the beck where the sound of his coughing would not give him away . |
| 25 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 26 | ‘ Connelly 's just bought himself a warehouse down by the docks . ’ |
| 27 | At Episkopi , he found one of the Martini brothers down by the warehouses . |
| 28 | Water was carried in leather buckets from the spring along by the castle , a quarter of a mile down the track . |
| 29 | Fig. 88 abjures pattern , making its effect entirely by the balance of light figures and dark ground ; while Euphronios in fig. 89 makes his patterns too in red-figure : two ways of integrating the picture still further with the pot , both carried on in later generations . |
| 30 | This is because each program in the category is content-free , highly versatile , limited in practice only by the user 's imagination . |