Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , perhaps more importantly , no other player could ( Law 18. ( 2 ) ( d ) ) wilfully fall on or over a player lying on the ground with the ball in his possession . |
| 2 | Or , even better , find a shield which can also be used as a ram ( like a chair , stool , dustbin or small table ) to knock the knifeman down or against a wall . |
| 3 | ‘ being a person on foot ’ Means walking or running etc. as opposed to being carried in or on a vehicle or riding a horse etc . |
| 4 | Under section I of the P. & C.E. Act the police can stop and search : ( a ) any person or vehicle ; ( b ) anything which is in or on a vehicle ; for stolen or prohibited articles ; and may detain a person or vehicle in order to conduct such a search . |
| 5 | where the injured party is in or on a vehicle by the Insurer of such vehicle |
| 6 | where the injured party is not in or on a vehicle by the Insurer of the vehicle actually striking him |
| 7 | The Act does not give a constable power to search a person or a vehicle or anything in or on a vehicle unless he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that he will find stolen or prohibited articles . |
| 8 | Under current US law , the government must set a legal limit , called a tolerance , for the amount of pesticide residue that can be in or on a food . |
| 9 | Each had to be in the mainstream , each had to be approached in and through a group of mainstream pupils . |
| 10 | Portia Forbes had come in and with a tray in her hand was studying the menu . |
| 11 | In the Structure Plan and in all earlier discussion , land was seen as something which provides a location for industry , for the population employed in and as a consequence of that industry and for the services necessary for that population . |
| 12 | James Scott in his Railway Romance and Other Essays observed : ‘ It is mainly the human interest to be found in and about a railway station which is the secret of its fascination . ’ |
| 13 | The second story is set in and around a country hotel , where the wife of a coarse doctor takes a more than kindly interest in a Klima wide-awake to the sights and sounds of this paradise . |
| 14 | A couple of hours later I collected the box , mysteriously taped down and with a mass of weight on top . |
| 15 | He looked me up and down and with a twinkle in his eye said ‘ Oh ! dear , I think I shall have to let you know after all . ’ |
| 16 | Three feet down and under a rose-bush . |
| 17 | The hijackers jumped down and for a minute it looked as if they were going to try to fight their way out . |
| 18 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 19 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 20 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 21 | Bénezet was sauntering back to the guesthall with his gleanings , when he observed Brother Jerome rounding the box hedge from the garden , head down and in a hurry . |
| 22 | Another twenty paces along and around a corner , a fourth granary stood . |
| 23 | And in such a situation it becomes difficult to say whether the temporary worker is brought in because of a shortage of permanent staff or because there is ( now ) a once-off task to be performed . |
| 24 | but , but these fellas they come along and they have , they get in because of a policy |
| 25 | I slowed down because for a moment I thought you might need help . |
| 26 | Does the Minister expect that while the award system is kept under review and resources are scarce , some consideration should be given to students who come from poor backgrounds and achieve high marks but are turned down because of a shortage of places ? |
| 27 | It ca n't be knocked down because of a protection order — and there are even plans to establish a museum of psychiatry on the site . |
| 28 | Although he wrote just after the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties , he rejected the idea that capitalism would break down because of a lack of investment opportunities and a reduction in the real rate of profit . |
| 29 | The winning bidder will be ‘ arrested ’ by police and spend a day at Armley jail , Leeds , whose young offenders wing was closed down because of a spate of suicides . |
| 30 | Lyle issued orders that a marquee be erected in his back garden and on Monday night there was a party , the food being funnelled in as on a conveyor belt from a nearby Chinese restaurant . |