Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These dreams tend not to be about sudden drops or stumbles , but of long drops from high buildings or down deep holes , ending in collisions with the ground , or perhaps with miraculously soft landings . |
| 2 | take short cuts across open ground or down unlit alleyways ? |
| 3 | Perhaps he was on leave or off sick . ’ |
| 4 | The proposed new system is that whether on holiday or off sick the employee is paid for what theywould have earned had the attended work ( Subject to conditions of pay relating to full/half pay sickness entitlements and unauthorised absence ) . |
| 5 | Phil joined the Palace in February 1984 for a modest £10,000 fee from Aylesbury Town , but he soon established himself as a valuable member of our League side , playing either on the left of midfield or up front as a striker , and he must probably be reckoned to be the best signing made for our club by manager Alan Mullery . |
| 6 | Turkey do n't have much at the back or up front but in the middle of the park they are very comfortable with the ball and if England negate them there it will be enough to win . |
| 7 | I never rode around bends or up steep hills . |
| 8 | Er mortar bombs , they used to weld the fins on that , do those on stitch welders , they 'd go up and down similar to these things you see now . |
| 9 | Biddy drove out of town fast , and down narrow lanes into the country of wide marshland and wider skies which Nails knew existed but had never set eyes on before . |
| 10 | The handbrake was extensively used to cope with icy conditions on what seemed to be never-ending hairpins and headlights in the distance changing direction constantly made us wonder whether the word insanity had taken on a new meaning [ going up and down snowy mountains in a 30-year-old car ] . |
| 11 | We followed him across the street and down crumbling cement stairs into a fetid basement that stank of excrement , a place two feet deep in sodden papers , envelopes , parcels and stained government forms . |
| 12 | Plodding up and down stony paths , crossing tussocky moorland and jumping streams can all make great demands on footwear . |
| 13 | The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction . |
| 14 | So now here I am — Mrs Tamm wo n't leave her desk — not heading back to my own room and my labours on the great Assessment , but in the back parts of the building where I have never been before , picking my way blindly along the twisting ad hoc corridors , up and down odd arbitrary stairs , in the faint hope of ( seeing also ) . |
| 15 | But then , in addition , prices move up and down due to changes in demand . |
| 16 | DOWNPATRICK and Down Royal executives will be keeping their fingers crossed next week that there will be strong declarations for their meetings on Wednesday and Saturday respectively . |
| 17 | Of course , working on a farm like any other job contains its boring , repetitive aspects and any worker can become tired of driving up and down large modern fields for weeks on end during ploughing , but in general job satisfaction is extraordinarily high . |
| 18 | The flak was heavy , relentless as hounds chasing a cornered stag up and down high ground . |
| 19 | Odd-Knut finds a steep up-slope where a river joins the lake and we play for a bit going up and down steep slopes . |
| 20 | Up and down different ones , different loch and er you could see Inveraray Castle in the distance we , er after we married we went to Inveraray Castle , went over it |
| 21 | The signal box at Bradley Fold West , situated between Bolton and Bury , was a small but important unit miles from anywhere controlling the up and down main lines and both goods loops . |
| 22 | The gruesome story of the headless lover began early in the 1900s when Brooke End signal box controlled the up and down main lines , an up goods loop and sidings used by the pick-up trains of that period . |
| 23 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 24 | They accepted with alacrity the prospect of a glimpse of the world inside , and all three of them went along dark portrait-hung corridors and up panelled staircases to the room of one Flora Piercy , a second-year History student of considerable sophistication , who offered them a glass of wine . |
| 25 | Yet every afternoon , a group of journalists weaves its way along several gloomy corridors and up various flights of stairs to a cold , windy place with impressive views over the gilded roof of the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Bridge and the River Thames . |
| 26 | I picture the two of them ( and I must suppose Summerchild pictures it himself ) walking across Whitehall together , and up Great Scotland Yard , through the thin March sunlight , warmed by the faint hope of summer ; then plunging into the frowsty Edwardian gloom , where neither sunlight nor hope of summer ever penetrate . |
| 27 | And up front Villa have got the perfect artillery in Dean Saunders and Atkinson . |
| 28 | You have to be straight and up front with children to let them know that it is OK for them to use their own words and explain their concerns in their won way , ’ says Brown . |
| 29 | But if you are honest and up front with them , and tell them exactly what you 're doing and why you 're trying to do it , eventually over time , you get them And we started this in nineteen eighty five , eighty six . |
| 30 | In goal was Paul ‘ the cat ’ Simmons , at the back was Jim ‘ nothing will get past me ’ Farmery , Phil ‘ I will run forever ’ Shaw , and up front was Paul ‘ I may be small but I 'm good ’ Beck , Darren ‘ flog it ’ Clegg , Tony ‘ the tiger ’ Register and Paul ‘ let me shoot ’ Hudson , not forgetting the manager , ‘ the singing service technician himself ’ Ken Nightingale and all singing , all dancing rocketeers , Josie and Eileen . |