Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 2 | Or on to the point of someone 's sword ! ’ |
| 3 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
| 4 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 5 | The conference was set up to attract more business to north Oxfordshire , where along of the flanks of the M40 empty office space is part of the landscape . |
| 6 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 7 | MacDonald defines non-traditional students as those who are 21 years or over at the commencement of their degree course on the 1st of October . |
| 8 | The non-white population is young ; in 1985–7 , 35% were aged under 16 and 18% aged 45 or over ( compared with 20% under 16 and 36% 45 or over in the population as a whole ) ( OPCS , 1988 , p. 31 , Table 3 ) . |
| 9 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 10 | Does it really matter , they ask , whether they are switched on or off by the idea of selling goods in a shop ? |
| 11 | Or up over the top of that bit . |
| 12 | Hiding in comers or out on the hills in all weathers … |
| 13 | I 'd assumed she was writing in secret , as I was — pursuing a universal dirty habit that demanded solitude and a quiet place — when instead she was watching TV or out at the pub with friends : being social . |
| 14 | The price for the shares must be paid out of distributable profits or out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purpose of the buy-back ( s160(1) ( a ) ) . |
| 15 | And , and not look extraordinary or out of the way at all , and I think all true clothes , I mean true sort of timeless costume , you can wear at anytime . |
| 16 | He can not speak in or out of the House on subjects outside his department . |
| 17 | Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned . |
| 18 | You can erm by word of mouth recommendations it means that we , we have to spend less money on advertising , now that means that in the long run we can pass that on to the client like yourself |
| 19 | We have already suggested that along with the use of child labour there was little uniformity either chronologically or geographically about the employment of women in coal mines . |
| 20 | Lane argues that up to the middle of the 1970s the conditions of employment of part-time and temporary workers were reasonably protected by the state balancing the interests of capital and labour . |
| 21 | There is also considerable evidence ( as marshalled by Ingram 1975 ) to suggest that up to the age of six years it is mainly short , simple but still hierarchically structured sentences that the child is able to produce . |
| 22 | There is no evidence that all jurists early practised toleration of defective trusts , for we have seen that up to the end of the first century at least there was opposition to allowing them validity . |
| 23 | Next , I get one of those high-speed electric drills and I couple that up to the end of the cable in such a way that when the drill turns , it turns the cable backwards . |
| 24 | Shunned by much of the old left , the new recruits had proved more than up to the task of filling the gaps . |
| 25 | The National Fertility Survey found that out of the total of women using contraception , 52.5% had been sterilized . |
| 26 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |
| 27 | And the more valuable the horse is , with the consequent likelihood of it being kept in more confined and stressful conditions — stabled in solitude rather than out in the paddock with companions — the greater the chances of it developing colic . |
| 28 | Nothing moved inside except out of the corner of my eye I was sure that I saw Boris winking . |
| 29 | The nearest approach , perhaps , is the long belt of deltas extending today , from the Ganges in eastern India , via the Brahmaputra , the Irrawaddy and the Sittang , to the rivers of the Gulf of Siam and on via the Mekong to the Sang-koi and Si-kiang rivers of southern China . |
| 30 | Narrowing my eyes against the Atlantic glitter I could see the line of a path that climbed from the bay and on over the headland to the west . |