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

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1 For it was , in truth , as if his legs followed a route from which he could not turn them back — along the sales signs in Oxford Street occupied by a bedraggled army of Christmas bargain hunters , and off that up to the grandiose frontage of the hotel .
2 However , because of the serious recession of the early 1990s , especially in the South East , the government decided in its Budget of 1992 to keep the increase for 1992/3 down to the current inflation rate of only 4.1 % , instead of the 24.1 % which would have been the maximum ‘ phasing in ’ amount payable .
3 We ca n't pay for that out of the general population in the City of Oxford , we 've got to take it out of the people who live in council houses and are paying rent and this seems to me a most iniquitous way of erm financing our people on how incomes .
4 The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else .
5 Local social services departments ( formerly local health departments ) provide day nurseries for some up to the age of 5 .
6 They went back down the garden and after that out to a couple of pubs where they drank a lot and Rufus had to drive back to Wyvis Hall with one eye closed on account of getting double vision .
7 The institutions themselves succeeded in raising fifty per cent of the price of eleven out of the eighteen drawings and the support of the National Art Collections Fund , the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts has been crucial in raising most of the remaining moneys required .
8 Theodora had passed none of that on to the Archdeacon , and he had himself offered no judgement .
9 We 've got some soup so we thought well we can make some of that up in the morning then we could just warm it up for the dinners
10 Can we dispose of that out of the way ?
11 We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen .
12 On the marsh behind the Butts and Great Winox , are the Fresh Marsh then below this out to the river The Commons and Salts , then the Hage Brook and near to Marsh Farm , Parsonage land .
13 The angst created by the rapidly decreasing ammo level is great , as is the fun derived from blasting seven shades of brown out of the minions .
14 Restrictions imposed on the slaughter and movement of 8,000 out of a total of 300,000 North Welsh sheep following fall-out from the Chernobyl disaster have been lifted .
15 An Italian cabinet committee has approved plans to create a single telephone company , Telecom Italia SpA by the end of 1995 out of a merger of holding company Stet SpA , Sociata Italiana per l'esercisio delle Telecomunicazioni pA , the main phone company , Italcable SpA , the international carrier , and the satellite operator Telespazio SpA , according to the Financial Times .
16 Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 2 ( Pen and Sword Books Ltd , 192pp , illus , sbk , £9.95 ) by Ron Collier tells the stories of 26 out of the 50 aircraft that have crashed in the Dark Peak area of the peak District National Park over the past 60 years .
17 It truly was a parochial effort as children from the age of six up to the oldest members took part .
18 You mentioned already er over a hundred thousand people have been er displaced by the fighting , and we were able to visit some of these up in the north to , er watch the Cambodian Red Cross hand out some er aid from Oxfam and other agencies .
19 ( They passed the cost of these on to the Trustees . )
20 But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up .
21 When was there one occasion when a government of any colour was imposed upon England against the wishes of three out of every four English voters ?
22 Each one of the forty women made some attempt to complete the test , though the number of statements made varied from three to eleven , with an average of 8.03 out of the desired ten per respondent .
23 This could not be achieved merely by filling all existing vacancies , however , since the Liberal bloc consisted of 52 out of the 104 seats , and the Liberals could also generally count on the support of at least one independent .
24 The crimes of detaining a woman against her will with the intention that she shall marry or have unlawful sexual intercourse , and taking an unmarried girl under the age of 18 out of the possession of her parent or guardian with intent that she shall have sexual intercourse , are restricted in the same fashion .
25 It considered whether the definition of sexual intercourse should be expanded in the case of the relatively insignificant offence of taking an unmarried girl of 18 out of the possession of her parent with intent to have sexual intercourse , and concluded that little would be achieved by doing so .
26 In one house lived a " maiden " of seventy along with a " poor and lame widow " and two sisters of sixty-five and fifty-nine .
27 If we draw a join a few of those up through the centre , just so we can mark the angle .
28 Ooh look there 's quite a lot of tools there there was another one of those out near the this
29 The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all .
30 I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans .
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