Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 2 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 3 | it just goes on to the edge here . |
| 4 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 5 | Yes and did you stay on at the hospital then ? |
| 6 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 7 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 8 | Keep tucked in behind the side always said to you , the bloke in the front , mate , he does all the donkey work , picking up drags you round do n't it ? |
| 9 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 10 | So often the right tool for the job is hanging in the tool shed at home when you are helping a friend in his house , or have broken down in the car away from home . |
| 11 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 12 | So this is how it 's going to be , thinks Howard , as he rides down in the lift again . |
| 13 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 14 | You 've got ta get the stu the smell goes in to the liquid then you chuck the liquid away . |
| 15 | She gazed down at the floor despondently . |
| 16 | Gina gazed down at the map unseeingly , her mind preoccupied with the unhappy little scene in her own living-room . |
| 17 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 18 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 19 | Only that she did n't want to go down to the sea again . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Would you like to go down to the kitchen now , Tobermory , ’ asked Lady Blemley politely , ‘ and see if the cook has got your dinner ready ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 , |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got to go down to the off-licence later . ’ |
| 23 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 24 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 25 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 26 | He got to his feet in one sinuous movement , stretching hugely , his arms above his head , before he sank down in the chair opposite . |
| 27 | Meryl sank down in the chair gratefully . |
| 28 | Lifting it , she peered down into the blackness below , feeling the first rung of a rickety ladder as she dangled her foot into the yawning gap . |
| 29 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 30 | Modigliani sketched a middle-aged couple in evening dress who had probably dropped in to the Rotonde late one night . |