Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or in out of the way places , |
| 2 | I ran faster , over the rocks on to the firm sand , over the driftline and on up to the golden sand , slower and dry , then up to the grass on the nearest dune . |
| 3 | There is a beautiful and , to my mind , very moving story which scientists , grown old and grey in the quest for useful tools with which to chip away first this corner of ignorance and then that one , hand down to their students and which the students , when they have been transmogrified into old and grey scientists themselves , pass on to their students , and so on and on down through the generations . |
| 4 | Into the slope a valley has been cut by a little brook called the Selletbeck , which runs past the churchyard and on down to the River Lune . |
| 5 | But before that , to the north , numerous small rivers and tributaries — including the likes of the Bruar Water , the Banvie , the Tilt and the Fender Burn have all fattened the River Garry before it feeds into the Tummel and on down into the Tay . |
| 6 | On top of the Alice Liddell , the floods swivelled and became searchlights , two broad beams shining up at the roof of the bay and on out into the dark gulf beyond . |
| 7 | Well they want to connect Mansfield then they want to connect eventually right up through Worksop and on out into the main lines . |
| 8 | The worst episode of foul play was perpetrated by Southland lock Mark Tinnock , whose feet went up and down repeatedly in a tap-dancing motion on Lions ' flanker Richard Webster during a ruck . |
| 9 | Ronni turned away in confusion as Guido simply went on smiling , bobbing up and down unrepentantly in the water , his dark hair plastered like strands of silk to his forehead , quite obviously thoroughly enjoying her confusion . |
| 10 | Bobo was muscling up and down morosely at the back of the cage . |
| 11 | And down here on the side in front of me now you got Super , Super Nesh yo , and that 's a , the , that 's the one what comes from America . |
| 12 | Selkirk laughed at them , jumping up and down here in the taproom . |
| 13 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 14 | Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry . |
| 15 | The Doctor smiled at it , waited for it to approach — then whipped his hat through the air and down on to the table , neatly trapping the drone beneath it . |
| 16 | One hand was tangled in her hair , holding her down , and with the other he traced a line past her collarbone and down on to the softer flesh beneath , tugging the neckline of her dress lower and lower , until Folly could feel it brush the swollen aureoles of her breasts under the silk of her bra . |
| 17 | She let Cleo slide over her thigh and down on to the floor . |
| 18 | Athelstan stood , walking up and down just beneath the dais , his fingers to his lips . |
| 19 | Both saints were subjected to the elaborate canonisation procedure before their names were added to the roll up yonder , and down yonder in the Vatican . |
| 20 | A pair of sharp black eyes looked her up and down out of the most wasted features Miss Kyte had ever seen . |
| 21 | The sun was already hot on her face , and down below in the garden two doves stalked the lawn , looking for titbits . |
| 22 | Running upstairs to the sitting-room window , he was in time to see her cross the road , staring up and down vaguely like a blind person . |
| 23 | A light bobbed up and down further along the corridor , accompanied by the sound of running footsteps . |
| 24 | That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will . |
| 25 | She jumped up and down experimentally in the briny , took a step further full of confidence , then further and further still . |
| 26 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 27 | A RAPIST forced his victim to chant ‘ yes son ’ over and over again during a two-hour ordeal yesterday . |
| 28 | Charlotte had bought a pocket cassette player before leaving New York and listened to the tape of Beatrix 's conversation with Maurice over and over again during the five-hour rail journey to Boston . |
| 29 | I would suggest that if you are sure of your pieces , do n't read them over and over again on the way to the audition — once will be quite enough . |
| 30 | The tune was Jack be Nimble , Jack be Quick played over and over again on the ‘ cordion ’ . |