Example sentences of "[adv prt] under the [adj] [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For Jezrael was striding out under the pink-brown dome of the sky , knuckling away the tears that spilled out from her protective lenses . |
| 11 | Less than two hours later , a city-centre taxi let her out under the lighted awning of the hotel by the park . |
| 12 | She heard Klift cry out under the shattering din of the falling rock . |