Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] under the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most of the houses down here were divided into.two flats , two front doors squeezed in under the tiny porch . |
| 32 | ‘ I am not sure that people realise the extent of the scale of increase in cost that will come about under the new system . ’ |
| 33 | I hope that it will come about under the Portuguese presidency , and I am working towards that end ; but it must be an end that does not discriminate against Scottish farmers or British farmers generally . |
| 34 | Not much perhaps , but if you answer my questions I can arrange for a pardon to be sent down under the usual condition : that you abjure the realm . |
| 35 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 36 | For Jezrael was striding out under the pink-brown dome of the sky , knuckling away the tears that spilled out from her protective lenses . |
| 37 | She heard Klift cry out under the shattering din of the falling rock . |