Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To listen to ‘ a load of shit on shehadat ’ , as Cave called it , was part of the side-business of negotiating ; the Americans would do their best to try to steer their interlocutors back to the subjects at hand . |
| 32 | ‘ We have had to beg , steal and borrow substantial funds to put the club back in the hands of the people of Peterborough , which is where it belongs , ’ commented Turner , who moves to the boardroom as chairman . |
| 33 | They built their homes out of the materials of the river bank itself . |
| 34 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 35 | Since then the transformation of rural villages into non-agricultural settlements has taken place in a series of waves out along the lines of transportation from the major urban centres , particularly , in the first instance , London . |
| 36 | After a time ( or if disturbed ) this living globe breaks up and disappears like a rain of silver back into the depths of the sea . |
| 37 | One might well think that a word can not both label a property or a relation revealed to intuition and its meaning be a construct out of the meanings of other expressions . |
| 38 | This ensured that aircraft out on the routes at outstations lacking facilities for making the checks could fly to a place where it could be done . |
| 39 | Six months later Acheson indicated that the United States wished to keep Taiwan out of the hands of mainland China . |
| 40 | Steve laughed and directed his eyes back to the papers on the table . |
| 41 | In higher education a new central body is proposed to take control over polytechnics out of the hands of local authorities . |
| 42 | Grant casts his eyes around at the casualties of a drink-based evening albeit mainly non-alcoholic , and demurs , seeing that mild hysteria has set in . |
| 43 | ‘ Nothing too personal , I suppose , but he was throwing his weight about over the steps at the old people 's place . ’ |
| 44 | In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left . |
| 45 | She was walking backwards and forwards over the makeshift stage shaking sand on to the boards from a small bucket , trying to evoke the desert sands of Saudi Arabia . |
| 46 | As always the major attractions were romantic landscapes and the monuments of culture , but by the 1860s the British ( pioneers as usual ) were exporting their passion for physical exercise on to the mountains of Switzerland , where they were later to found skiing as a winter sport . |
| 47 | ‘ Next , ’ said Amaranth , who had let drop the first two scarves on to the heads of the assembled press men , ‘ we have Gerald Kaufman , all vinegar and no chips . ’ |
| 48 | The course is bisected by the border between England and Wales and though , technically , Woosnam was born in Shropshire , he is a Welshman down to the tips of the spikes on his golf shoes . |
| 49 | They have ditched the ridiculous old restrictive working practices and are reaping the benefit along with the shareholders of British Aerospace , of which Rover is part . |
| 50 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 51 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 52 | We attend the lectures along with the students from 10 — 12:30 each day ; we are both small group leaders which means we have six or seven students each ; we pray and share our lives together , help work through with people what changes God is making in their lives . |
| 53 | From this road it is possible to make small diversions down into the villages of Jardim do Mar and Paúl do Mar , although the roads in and out of them are more spectacular than the villages themselves . |
| 54 | First there 's a run down on the basics of all terrain driving . |
| 55 | And on your way upstairs , do n't forget the bannisters and those tricky areas in between the rails on your staircase . |
| 56 | ‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca . |
| 57 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 58 | Once you 've got the orientation right carefully line the pins of the chips up with the holes in the socket . |
| 59 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 60 | That is a reference back to the events of chapter 16 , and strange though it is , it is no more extraordinary than their wish in Exodus 16 that they had been killed together with the Egyptians at the time of the Passover . |