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 | A new Cabinet was sworn in under an amended Constitution by the acting President , Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed , on Sept. 19 . |
| 13 | The sight of these two storming along under a cloud of canvas is enough to stir the blood of most landlubbers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I sat down under a rhododendron bush and thought , And so am I , loony . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She ran and ran but could not see a house anywhere , so she sat down under a flower to rest . |
| 21 | The three prisoners walked slowly along the beach and sat down under a tree , not far from us . |
| 22 | Quickly , I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge . |
| 23 | One of the Maguire girls Ellie or Molly , I think it was Molly , they were all fine looking , tall women — came out to do her morning business and hunkered down under an apple tree a few feet away from Eddie . |
| 24 | We talked a little more , while Terry and Tom prepared themselves for the inevitable angry reaction from the guards and Brian lay down under an extra blanket as his body came to terms with the shock of the beating . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Gabriel had taken himself off under a table . |
| 29 | Yesterday , it went off under an uncomfortable-looking Government bench as the Chancellor delivered an austerity package that raised taxes directly and indirectly and carried a message for the times . |
| 30 | 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 ) ? |