Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Wander down to the Etangs d'Ixelles or over to the Square Marie-Louise to admire the lush art-nouveau mansions built from fortunes amassed in the steamy Belgian Congo . |
2 | With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China . |
3 | This line can he traced , rather precisely , from New England , through south-west Ireland , via south Pembrokeshire and the Gower Peninsula , under the University College of Swansea , then south of the Kent coalfield to the Boulonnais and on as the Grande Faille din Midi far into the European continent . |
4 | After a hair-raising careen out of the park , through the backstreets of Muswell Hill , Bounds Green , and on to the North Circular Road ( only in the broadest interpretation of the term could the Apostate be described as knowing how to drive ) , Rainbow persuadesd Anya to untie her hands and feet , and let her get back behind the wheel . |
5 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
6 | The beck runs from fields via springs , down London Street , hides under the road , emerges again round Bridge Street flats , underground again until it appears in the churchyard , then under the road and into West Green where it runs beside an avenue of stately chestnut trees , out of Pocklington and on to the river Derwent . |
7 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
8 | The air-conditioning roared softly and they got their first drinks as they came out of the tunnel and on to the New Jersey marshes where gulls circled the refuse dumps among a forest of concrete stilts carrying the highways south . |
9 | Proceeding south from the West End of Princes Street the Lothian Road leads to the residential districts of Bruntsfield and Morningside and on to the Pentland Hills — R. L. Stevenson 's ‘ hills of home ’ . |
10 | And down on the River Thames , 1,000 oarsman and women continue the rowing tradition at the Wallingford Regatta . |
11 | While the British army was , the French hoped , hurrying north to cope with this initial attack , the same warships — here lay the originality of the plan — would sail north-about round Scotland and down through the North Sea to Ostend . |
12 | on a Saturdays afternoon , they all set out and walked up past Sandybank and along to the Mill Road and the back to the village along the sand . |
13 | While servitors were bringing food and wine , the visitors accounted for themselves , where they had come from and what had transpired , the situation at Berwick and over on the West March . |
14 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
15 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
16 | The Rhine rises in the Swiss Grisons , forces its way north-west , forming for part of its course the border between Switzerland , Liechtenstein and Austria , enters the Bodensee ( Lake Constance ) in the south-east , flows through part of the lake , then out into the Untersee , over the falls to Basle , then north up through Germany on its long journey to Holland and out into the North Sea . |
17 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
18 | In and out of the camp Billy made sure that his camp and his model of the people 's pleasures were always in the public eye . |
19 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
20 | When it was time for ‘ lights out ’ , she and Jake left the room together , and out in the corridor Jake told her , ‘ Mrs Aitken usually serves supper about eight , so if you want to freshen up you have a bit of time . |
21 | The path continues along the edge of the field , through the hole in the hedge and back to the South Walsham Staithe Car Park . |
22 | With his arm tightly around her shoulders she found herself steered away from their small , amused , interested audience , away from the music and colourful dancing , out of the floodlit wood and back to the Aston Martin . |
23 | Chanel has published advertisements of Claudia Schiffer wearing long dresses , but out of the studios Miss Schiffer also wears short skirts . |
24 | A C2 might be a joy to paddle on a dancing rapid but out on the Pacific Ocean it behaved like a submersible beast . |
25 | Across the Bristol Channel we could see over to the cliffs of North Devon , while off to the west Carmarthen Bay and the Pembrokeshire coast stretched out into the distance . |
26 | And , as anywhere else , transitory lighting can turn a nondescript topography into a picture , as up on the Barkly Tableland where the narrow tarmac ribbon is frayed at the edges into blond tussocky grass as far as the eye can see . |