Example sentences of "[adv prt] under the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process .
2 Since last week 's bumper post bag caused our 50-storey multi-plex office block to cave in under the sheer weight of ever-hopeful readers ' entries , we here at Bizzerk have had to temporarily relocate to a Hawaiian island where cargo boats deliver letters by the sackload for our native postal workers to process .
3 Using sensitive earthquake-detecting instruments ( seismographs or seismometers ) , it is possible to pin down quite precisely the sites where the shock waves originate in this region , and it can easily be shown that these sites are confined to a narrow belt which dips steeply down under the continental margin at about 60 degrees , and which hits the surface just where the ocean is deepest , in the Chile-Peru Trench .
4 By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions .
5 At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come .
6 There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light .
7 Turning up under the new name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd , Harpenden , Hertfordshire , the checkered past of this UK start-up has taken some interesting turns .
8 Ras Makonnen governed Harar until his death in 1906 and there his son Tafari was born and grew up under the enlightened administration of his eminent father ; he was thirteen when his father died .
9 But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them .
10 Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies .
11 Shoppers who were increasingly being scared off by the threat of town-centre misbehaviour and the fear of visiting football crowds , are flocking back under the watchful gaze of the cameras , which are monitored 24 hours a day by an Airdrie police team .
12 For Jezrael was striding out under the pink-brown dome of the sky , knuckling away the tears that spilled out from her protective lenses .
13 Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park .
14 She heard Klift cry out under the shattering din of the falling rock .
15 On the back , quite without superficial decoration , the artist has concentrated on revealing the forms of the body , not adapted to a linear pattern but swelling in majestic simplicity under the smooth cloak which originally veiled the hair and falls almost to the ankles , held in the right hand and brought round under the left elbow to be tucked into the belt in front .
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