Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of 1990 , working from Kingsdale Master Cave , Crossley and Yeadon , joined by John Cordingley and Russell Carter , managed to force a route through into the King Pot main water . |
| 2 | Through their work of feeding and clothing the children on the street , organising places for them to sleep in safety and providing them with a route out of the barrios , the staff of Casa Alianza have learnt how the police look after the children . |
| 3 | Richmond was the first black man to find in sport a route out of the despair and misery which were integral parts of his enslavement . |
| 4 | For most of the women , paid work had been a route out of the family and domestic and financial dependence . |
| 5 | A land-use survey was made on a route out of the city centre — in this case Mansfield Road , and the land use and building use were noted on a rough map ( see fig 3 ) . |
| 6 | They decided to cut across the coastal plain and head for a wadi that would provide a route back to the top of the escarpment . |
| 7 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |
| 8 | We skirted the artificial Llys y-fran reservoir and chose a route back on the tiny lanes which connect the farms . |
| 9 | The duty imposed by RSC Ord 22 , r7 and CCR Ord 11 , r7 not to disclose a payment in to the trial judge until all questions of liability and damages have been decided is extended to the Court of Appeal by Ord 59 , r12A . |
| 10 | A trial off along the latter having a unpromising appearance was soon stopped . |
| 11 | It was a wonderful vision but over the course of centuries , the gardens became building plots , access to the new houses being obtained by demolishing part of the ground floor of a house to provide a passageway through to the new dwellings . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll put a girdle round about the earth |
| 13 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 14 | When the water boils , he swishes a bit around in the pot to warm it . |
| 15 | Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ . |
| 16 | She supposed she was feeling a bit down in the dumps , apprehensive too about celebrating Christmas Day at the Danbys . |
| 17 | Some were very angry , they thought it would last for ever ; yes a bit down in the dumps , especially the younger people , some old people looked forward to it . |
| 18 | Erm does n't do much to lift your spirits if you 're getting up feeling a bit down in the morning . |
| 19 | Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out . |
| 20 | so , he said that she 's feeling a bit down in the dumps and quite moody . |
| 21 | But Robinson said : ‘ Ian is a bit down after the tour and I think once he gets a couple of senior games under his belt things will work out . ’ |
| 22 | This is something a bit out of the ordinary . |
| 23 | They 're pricey , mind , but good if you want something a bit out of the ordinary . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah we thought it important to send to you because we are , you know , a bit out of the way that 's all and erm people tend to go zipping past and have to go up to the roundabout and come all the way back down again cos it 's quite a busy road this and |
| 25 | It 's a bit out of the Town . |
| 26 | You just , you live quite a bit out of the shop . |
| 27 | If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address . |
| 28 | Slice the top off and scoop a bit out from the middle . |
| 29 | Mrs Probyn was a runner up in the Miss Gloucester beauty competition in 1984 and was described by her husband , Jonathan as level headed and sensible — not the sort to contemplate suicide . |
| 30 | ‘ I try to keep the grey cells working , ’ I shouted back , more to reassure him that I had n't done a runner out of the kitchen window . |