Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A gold ring from Kalyvia shows a naked woman pulling down a bough of the sacred tree and another worshipping at a boulder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Go down go down a level for the first |
| 9 | It sniffed around the floor for a moment , then disappeared down a hole in the far wall . |
| 10 | ‘ How did the mice come to be halfway down a cliff in the first place ? ’ he had asked her . |
| 11 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The plaintiff 's husband was killed after falling down a staircase in the private part of the pub . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Lamb Inn lay on the other side of Burford , down a side-turning off the High Street . |
| 17 | Antrobus considered archaeologists to be another kind of meddling vandal , and he had refused to let in a group from the British Association for the Advancement of Science that had included Lubbock and Pitt-Rivers , and who had wanted to excavate round the stones . |
| 18 | She kept a record of everyone 's birthday at the factory and , until the company grew too big , always brought in a cake on the appropriate day . |
| 19 | Krísuvík is south and slightly west of Reykjavik , reached by a road across a beautiful lava field and through valleys that are almost civilized , or by a fine walk that takes these valleys and continues along a ridge above the bird-filled lake of Kleífarvatn . |
| 20 | Poignantly standing along a stretch of the fast-disappearing Berlin Wall . |
| 21 | If you get a sudden whiff of musk as you walk along a path in the early morning , this is almost certainly fox and not badger , which is rarely powerful enough to hang in the air . |
| 22 | I remember watching the television report showing him standing over a map in the local Party headquarters , sweeping his hand across it presumably indicating which areas were to disappear from the face of the earth . |
| 23 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's foreign minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over a segment of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a national coastal defence force . |
| 24 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over a segment of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a national coastal defence force . |
| 25 | The scene was filmed at Swanage , in Dorset , and was reminiscent of Buster Keaton hanging over a waterfall in the 1923 silent classic Our Hospitality . |
| 26 | It is , however , necessary to hand over a receipt for the last rental instalment in respect of the assignment of leasehold property . |
| 27 | Multiplying both sides of equation ( 11.8 ) by and integrating over a period of the fundamental , , that is , from to Hence the equivalent expression to equations ( 11.4 ) — ( 11.6 ) giving the amplitudes of the harmonics of a Fourier series is |
| 28 | Medeghino was exiled from Milan to Lake Como for killing a man , and there he took over a castle on the natural fortress of the Sassoi di Musso near the village of Musso at the northern end of the lake , killing the castle 's governor . |
| 29 | Most significantly , he took over a monument in the great sanctuary at Delphi , previously intended to commemorate his vanquished opponent Perseus . |
| 30 | It reached a climax in 1977 when another troupe of actors took over a shop in the main street of Shiraz , hard by the mosque , and performed in the shop and on the pavement a play that involved a full frontal rape and laws acts between naked , consenting actors . |