Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings . |
| 2 | Very few have turned down the offer but anyone interested can contact the operators of the train on for up to the minute information . |
| 3 | Oh , it did , went on for up to the time I retired . |
| 4 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 5 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 6 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 7 | I 've got you down as here for the last three . |
| 8 | The Cleveland firm which installed the panelling for a drugs trial could not take it down until today at the earliest . |
| 9 | The ‘ cheekbone ’ , which runs down from just behind the eye , is cut back so that it will finish up barely in proud of the surface . |
| 10 | The piles are driven down from above into the swamp , but not down to any natural or ‘ given ’ base ; and if we stop driving the piles deeper , it is not because we have reached firm ground . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) Stephen Small raced away from a defender and was brought down from behind inside the area — an indirect free kick for obstruction instead of a penalty . |
| 12 | I tell ya , so I think we got out , we got our hair done and she wanted to go down to the mission so the hairdresser phoned a different taxi , we have this one up here , he took her down from there to the mission , cos he went down the back ways , you know , |
| 13 | They dived down from out of the sun to the south and in view of the short space of time that had elapsed since the aircraft had landed it is almost certain that the enemy aircraft must have seen the Sunderland in the air . |
| 14 | She looked at him blankly , conscious of the anticlimax that had brought her tumbling down from out of the clouds , then she nodded , while making an effort to convey the impression that his kiss had failed to have the slightest effect upon her . |
| 15 | As the final election results come in from all over the country , it is clear they will be helping to run many Soviet towns and cities . |
| 16 | Russia 's independent Union of Drivers has sent trucks to the coal fields to distribute the food donations that have poured in from all over the country . |
| 17 | Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road . |
| 18 | ‘ I had no idea what the response would be , but all of a sudden all this equipment started coming in from all over the world . |
| 19 | The thousands of items on her shopping list are brought in from all over the world in quantities that could feed a small town — 70 tonnes of sausages , 300 tonnes of tomatoes , 250,000 pints of milk , six million eggs and 350,000 litres of fresh orange juice . |
| 20 | The voice of the future mimes the supposed experts who presume to know what lies in wait : ‘ Soon the ecopolitical system will crumble , and sado-experts will fly in from all over the world and poke into its smoking entrails and utter smooching agnostications ’ ( 15 ) , or : ‘ The ecozoologists will then fly in from all over the world and poke its entrails and fraudcast a stooging diregnosis ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 21 | The voice of the future mimes the supposed experts who presume to know what lies in wait : ‘ Soon the ecopolitical system will crumble , and sado-experts will fly in from all over the world and poke into its smoking entrails and utter smooching agnostications ’ ( 15 ) , or : ‘ The ecozoologists will then fly in from all over the world and poke its entrails and fraudcast a stooging diregnosis ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 22 | They knew I was catching the plane ; they came running in from all over the place with their big zoom lenses and what they want is : the butterfly 's wings are broken , so let's get a picture of her face . |
| 23 | The enormous number of immigrants who poured in from all over the country congested the old area within the medieval walls of the City and created new suburbs all around . |
| 24 | Work has come in from all over the UK , and even the charity Farm Africa uses the Hoy facility . |
| 25 | When we heard about , when we heard about the faxes that had come in from all around the world . |
| 26 | It is of vital importance that any agreement which is reached between the partners in relation to the taking of decisions is set down in writingpreferably in the partnership agreement itself ( Clause 17.09.1 ) , but if not there then at least in the minutes of the meeting at which it was concluded . |
| 27 | You were only allowed to have it down to just below the bottom of your ears — which looked absolutely daft . |
| 28 | As I 've said to you the the old bastinal used to hang on the toilet wall outside was a whole row of them you know these these big galvanized bath things that were brought in on maybe on a Friday night . |
| 29 | As I say sir we put this matter down till later in the day , the defendant wi will not appear to be represented therefore the committal will have to be dealt with by re reading out all the statements . |
| 30 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |