Example sentences of "[adv prt] under a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your stance must be long enough to dig in under a fierce attack . |
| 2 | Handel wrote his Messiah in under a month and directed its premiere from the organ . |
| 3 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 4 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 5 | Bringing the big boys in under a UN flag is exposing a clash of styles ; they tend to have their own way of doing things and there is pressure on the organisation to conform . |
| 6 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 7 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no way we would have got in under a Labour government . ’ |
| 9 | A small print shop , working on other jobs at the same time , would have done well to complete the Fairy Queen edition in under a month : and during printing , work in the theatre carried on apace . |
| 10 | ‘ I can be in London in under a couple of hours , ’ Julius replied . |
| 11 | This on-line printer library can magic up a driver for any printer you are ever likely to meet in under a couple of minutes . |
| 12 | The sight of these two storming along under a cloud of canvas is enough to stir the blood of most landlubbers . |
| 13 | Shortly before ten o'clock in the morning , the Angelina , almost slack-sailed and ghosting along under a Meltemi that hardly rated as a zephyr , tied up along the starboard side of the Ariadne . |
| 14 | A man who nearly died when he was dragged along under a car for a quarter of a mile says he hopes to be leaving hospital soon . |
| 15 | Larry Lonik , author of ‘ The Curious Morel ’ , tells the tale of a man in Williamsburg who knew a special spot : ‘ People would try to follow him , but he 'd just sit down under a tree and wait them out . |
| 16 | I sat down under a rhododendron bush and thought , And so am I , loony . |
| 17 | Others stoutly denied this matriarchal ascendency , insisting that , following its promiscuous episode , early society soon settled down under a patriarchal régime in which the opposite sex knew its place and kept it . |
| 18 | Doris stopped us in the hall when we came in , loaded down under a small tree and a carrier-bag full of bits and pieces we 'd seen and liked , and , inevitably in our mood of reckless gaiety , bought . |
| 19 | She ran and ran but could not see a house anywhere , so she sat down under a flower to rest . |
| 20 | The three prisoners walked slowly along the beach and sat down under a tree , not far from us . |
| 21 | Quickly , I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge . |
| 22 | In addition , they can be made to break off under a large side load and in so doing , perhaps prevent further damage being done to the fuselage . |
| 23 | A Labour victory would see house prices fall ‘ almost overnight ’ and a collapse in the value of pensions that would far outweigh the ‘ piffling promises ’ about most families being better off under a Kinnock government . |
| 24 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 25 | Gabriel had taken himself off under a table . |
| 26 | can a radically different work still be carried on under a single heading or department when there is not just diversity of approach but more serious and fundamental differences about the object of knowledge ( despite overlapping of the actual material of study ) ? |
| 27 | Joseph Hucks now seemed a poor companion in comparison with Coleridge 's new Oxford friend , and as the two men walked on under a blazing sun , first to Gloucester — ‘ a nothing-to-be-said about Town ’ — and then to Ross-on-Wye , Coleridge 's thoughts returned constantly to the substance of his conversations with Southey . |
| 28 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 29 | It 's a shame it 's going on under a microscope , spotlight or whatever but erm . |
| 30 | He was used to contrasts : Mother taking morning tea in bed with an old shawl round her shoulders and her hair pinned up under a boudoir cap , her face sticky with face cream as he kissed her good bye before school ; and Mother in full evening dress decked out in false pearls , her eyelashes beaded with mascara , dominating the stage in any play 's Last act … |