Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 2 | We went down a passageway to a small panelled hall . |
| 3 | The cab rocketed down a ramp into a major mall , slowing to steer between the visitors browsing among small arms dealers and gift shops . |
| 4 | Flights of steps lead from the hotel , down a promontory through the extensive gardens , to the swimming pool area , from where there are truly marvellous , panoramic views of the Sicilian coastline and Mount Etna . |
| 5 | Did the girl from Aberdeen really say , " Och , no , not on the table ! " as my father flattened a bluebottle with his hand , and did he really put down a newspaper on the same table to eat his breakfast ? |
| 6 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 7 | A gold ring from Kalyvia shows a naked woman pulling down a bough of the sacred tree and another worshipping at a boulder . |
| 8 | The European Community has turned down a request from the British Government for nearly twenty-five million pounds to assist coal-mining regions affected by pit closures . |
| 9 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 10 | Go down go down a level for the first |
| 11 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 12 | It sniffed around the floor for a moment , then disappeared down a hole in the far wall . |
| 13 | ‘ How did the mice come to be halfway down a cliff in the first place ? ’ he had asked her . |
| 14 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 15 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 16 | The party had officially received less than 3 per cent of the votes in the April general election ( see p. 36603 ) , and before the poll Mestiri had turned down a proposal by the ruling RCD for a national coalition . |
| 17 | Important cases in which public policy has been the paramount or only reason for striking down a provision as an unreasonable restraint of trade include Morris ( Herbert ) v Saxelby and Leng ( Sir WC ) & Co Ltd v Andrews [ 1909 ] 1 Ch 763 . |
| 18 | The plaintiff 's husband was killed after falling down a staircase in the private part of the pub . |
| 19 | I was once chuntering down a slope in the peaty Mount Keen country above the Angus glens and leapt off the top of an eroded peat hag . |
| 20 | Hartlepool had no hesitation in turning down a bid from an unnamed Scottish Premier League club last week . |
| 21 | Authorised is important because there was a famous case of an insurance company turning down a claim for a fitted kitchen damaged by fire when they discovered that a motorbike was in the kitchen at the time . |
| 22 | From Greenland to Greenwich , he has wrapped his taste buds around millions of them , left by fireplaces with a glass of sherry as some small compensation for the non-union-regulated job of squeezing down a chimney in the dead of winter . |
| 23 | The part-time firemen , part of a four-man crew from Mildenhall , had planned to use water from beneath the bridge to damp down a blaze in an isolated copse near Eriswell . |
| 24 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 25 | They 'd have to knock it down a hell of a bloody lot . |
| 26 | Just before dawn on 1 October , six generals and brigadiers were murdered and their bodies thrown down a well at a nearby military base , Halim . |
| 27 | In that erm , in that mermaid outfit , and earning some ridiculous amount of money for an hour , while other models went up and down a catwalk for a tenth of the money , or something . |
| 28 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 29 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 30 | Vitor chopped down a hand in a savage gesture . |