Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy , arms and legs as thin as sticks , his eyes dark and round in a long , white face , came over , his thumb stuck in his mouth . |
| 2 | If nothing is readily available you find yourself trying to thaw out the cheesecake from the bottom of the freezer ( nobody will miss it , will they ? ) , or working out how long it will take you to get to the shops and back with a bag-full of goodies . |
| 3 | A successful takeover would mean the closure of the Morland 's Abingdon brewery and up to a hundred job losses . |
| 4 | A pretty young eunuch in a canary-yellow silk sari led Zakir and me through a vaulted passageway and out into a small courtyard . |
| 5 | ‘ But we will go and look just the same , ’ he decided , and , taking her by the arm , he guided her to the front of the building and over to a high parapet . |
| 6 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 7 | Instead , they snatched extra time in the 80th minute when Cork got a touch onto Glyn Hodges ' cross and as a defender attempted to clear , the ball was driven against Ward and back past a helpless Mimms . |
| 8 | Bomber Command was divided into Groups , each of which consisted of a Headquarters and up to a dozen satellite air fields scattered around it in the countryside , from East Anglia up to Yorkshire . |
| 9 | Without waiting to be shown , she walked through the primitive kitchen and on to a small balcony perched perilously above the red-tiled roofs of the houses below . |
| 10 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 11 | THE SECOND TRANSITION : TO A NEW JOB OR BACK TO A PREVIOUS ONE |
| 12 | In Australia , only 1,600 Britons have registered even though two million retain British citizenship and up to a third are thought to qualify under the 20-year rule . |
| 13 | At least give the windows a thorough clean inside and out with a proprietary plastic cleaner , followed by a good plastic polish . |
| 14 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 15 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 16 | I 'm not sure about that but I am sure that the relative strength of a South African side is the subject of heated debate all over the rugby world and , depending on who you speak to , the ‘ Boks are either the true World Champions or a collection of dinosaurs , hopelessly out of touch with the modern game and in for a rude awakening . |
| 17 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 18 | I walk across the field to the gate and out into a narrow lane . |
| 19 | Sparks flew from the mesh cages and Fenella saw that great black iron pipes ran from beneath each wheel , along the wooden floor and out through a massive , carved silver door at the other end of the Workshop . |
| 20 | He glanced round the corner of the altar and watched a German officer who had been hit in the side of the head slump through the curtains and out of a wooden box on to the stone floor . |
| 21 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 22 | Quickly , I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge . |
| 23 | We trooped off round the back of the church and up into a small raised garden where there were indeed some benches . |
| 24 | At least 13 bodies were later carried to a nearby church and up to a hundred casualties were admitted to hospital . |
| 25 | Then it 's group shots and off to a hired room for buffet lunch , more lager , TV interviews and an assessment of the day 's events . |
| 26 | They can hardly avoid suggesting death and life ; in that case his song says there can be no defeat — even if the wanderers die in the dark wood , the real Old Forest , they will in death break through to sunlight and out of a hampering shade . |
| 27 | The RSPB estimates that , on average , up to 1.5 million waders and up to a million wildfowl spend the winters on the UK coasts , about 80 per cent of them on estuaries . |
| 28 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 29 | Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ . |
| 30 | All power was knocked out by Hurricane Iniki and up to a third of the buildings were flattened . |