Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |
| 2 | Mr Endara was sworn in as President shortly after midnight last night , on a US military base , in the presence of a US Major-General , with members of Panamanian human rights groups as witnesses . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll keep him in for observation just for tonight . |
| 4 | There has been a breaking down of divisions both between internally and externally generated information and the distinct professional disciplines which act as handmaidens to information . |
| 5 | Pulling power may be slightly down as it Deems to fall off quickly against head winds or uphill gradients , when running constant changing up and down with overdrive even on the level . |
| 6 | I checked in with Simon just after twelve . |
| 7 | Well , I waited up until three o'clock in the morning and he crawled in with footmarks all over his nice new suit where he 'd fallen on the floor and let everybody trample over him , blood pouring down his shirt from a head wound , a balloon tied round his neck and a paper hat on . |
| 8 | Black will take it swinging it in flicked on by Rozario and the goalkeeper made up for er what might have been an error a moment or two ago by coming bravely in with Pearce right in front of him and Rozario I mean on the flick . |
| 9 | [ Ellis papers in National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth , along with papers there of D. Lloyd George , D. R. Daniel , J. Herbert Lewis , Stuart Rendel , and Ellis Griffith ; A. J. Ellis ( ed . ) , |
| 10 | This entailed a dual arrangement : an ordained regular abbot ( i.e. a monk , one who followed a regula , or rule ) ran the community 's liturgical work and day-to-day upkeep from the inside , while , from the outside , a lay aristocrat assumed control of the community 's landed endowment along with responsibility both for the military service owed to the king from the men beneficed on the monastery 's lands , and often for hospitality at the monastery for the king and his entourage . |
| 11 | Felawnah , supplemented along with Dayflower earlier in the week , finished fourth , the same place she occupied in the Newmarket equivalent . |
| 12 | Taxable profits more than doubled to £45.1 million in the 12 months to December as the team , led by Anthony Habgood , the chief executive brought in from Tootal mid-way through 1991 , got to grips with loss-makers and revitalised other businesses . |
| 13 | ‘ Eh , young man , ’ Mr Clough is reported to have said , ‘ we 're down in London again on Thursday to play Wimbledon . |
| 14 | Like all penguins gentoos have tremendous swimmers and divers , and when preparing to come ashore they frequently ‘ porpoise ’ along in groups more like fish than birds . |
| 15 | He stayed first in New York with Robert Giroux , and then went down to Washington partly in order to see Ezra Pound . |
| 16 | ‘ I rather think the gamekeeper does a bit of illegal slaughtering for him , and they often go down to Florence together at night , gambling I think . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The Mediterranean peoples rarely sit down to dinner much before nine . ’ |
| 18 | And er my poor mam then used to go chasing down to shops late on Saturday afternoon and things like that . |
| 19 | Three days later , Richard came along to Grace early in the morning , and told her that there was a call for her . |
| 20 | Marshall and fellow defender Richard Jobson were both booked in the space of a minute for pulling down Shearer as he twice homed in on goal shortly after half time . |
| 21 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
| 22 | It flashed through my mind that it was someone who was allowed out in the grounds of Bourani and down at Moutsa only on pain of keeping herself concealed . |
| 23 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 24 | ‘ I am not going to spend big money bringing players over from Scotland simply for them to go through the motions . ’ |
| 25 | In recent years cropping had taken over from livestock particularly on part-time farms . |
| 26 | News of its intended publication filtered through to Orkney late on the Saturday night . |
| 27 | Brigadier Andrew Cumming said that although the troops ' primary role would be to get aid through to people desperately in need , they would attempt to adapt their peace-keeping experiences elsewhere in the world to the current crisis . |
| 28 | Governments — tax evasion through to avoidance especially for transnational corporations ( Vanick 1977 ) ; illegal campaign funds to politicians in return for promises ( Chambliss 1978 ) ; bribing state officials in return for later lucrative employment ; fraudulent information to prevent , influence , or repeal legislation ( Schrag and Divoky 1981 : 94–127 ; Sunday Times Insight Team 1979 : 90–116 ; Ungar 1972 ) ; exporting illegal behaviour to another state where it is not illegal ( Braithwaite 1979b ) ; fraudulent billing of government body ( Klass 1975 ; Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 29 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 30 | A COUSIN of Prince Charles was pulled over by police yesterday for trying to dodge a queue of traffic on a motorway slip road . |