Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Daleks and Mechonoids fight a mutual battle of annihilation , the humans escape down a rope to the jungle below , apparently losing Steven Taylor in the hasty retreat . |
| 2 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 3 | TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme . |
| 4 | After that I would shower them away , and peering over my side — all in my mind — would watch them being swept down a hillside in a cleansing torrent of water . |
| 5 | They withdrew down a gulley to the beach under fire that intensified as they remained below the cliffs , a sea mist shrouding their signals to the landing craft . |
| 6 | EVER since I saw David Bellamy disappearing down a crack in a garden path to demonstrate that we all had our own ‘ personal schooool of evolution ’ close at hand , I have been prepared to concede him an eternal place among the inexorably tenacious . |
| 7 | One of the counters had fallen down a snake to the bottom of the pit . |
| 8 | Fielding 's novels contain plenty of barbarous squires , who would as soon hunt down a parson as a fox , and whose houses are too muddy and unruly to be in any sense comfortable , much less seats of self-fruition . |
| 9 | Daniel slapped down a florin on the counter and caught the landlord 's eye . |
| 10 | Included are a water wheel , water float , his very own magnetic brave diver who dives from Bathtime Bear 's nose and slides down a shoot into the water . |
| 11 | An hour runs down a gutter into a drain . |
| 12 | The shopkeeper slammed the door behind them and quickly pulled down a blind with the word CLOSED on it . |
| 13 | " The burial regulations and provision of mourning " , notes Stephen Jones , " make it plain that many a coasting man did not want to go to his maker like his deep-sea brother , sliding down a plank in a canvas sack with the last stitch through his nose " . |
| 14 | They went in through the white painted door , down a passage into a kitchen . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's no difference between doing this in a small place like Northwich and closing down a pit in a mining village . ’ |
| 16 | She 's half-turned away , hanging up or taking down a dress from a hook . |
| 17 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 18 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 19 | It provides tools for breaking down a painting into the light , colour and space used by the painter . |
| 20 | The WRU yesterday turned down a request by the Merit Table clubs for a meeting tomorrow to discuss the proposed national leagues . |
| 21 | Police broke down a door at the back of the house and ordered four people inside to leave with their hands on their heads . |
| 22 | Erm you go down a bit of a lane and it 's gets you on the through road does n't it ? |
| 23 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 24 | 22 Something 's just gone down a hole in the skirting board . |
| 25 | Many busy working people have this quality of appeal , workpeople who will share an interest in what they are doing in an office or down a hole in the street . |
| 26 | From here he escapes and leaps down a cliff onto a beach . |
| 27 | On the left the slope broke off and fell down a cliff to the river . " |
| 28 | Try its lively , grassy , gooseberry-like '90 Sauvignon , Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France from Guy Saget ( £3.55 ) that would go down a treat with the Mushroom & Parmesan Risotto ( page 120 ) , or the Lemon & Mustard Mackerel ( page 122 ) . |
| 29 | When Gran was small , water was obtained at her Rollestone Street home by lifting a trap door in the floor and letting down a container into the stream below . |
| 30 | THE LATE Jock Stein laid down a strategy for the World Cup when he said that a team could wear working clothes to qualify , but needed to find evening dress for the event itself . |