Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 She stared unseeing out of the big plate-glass window that looked down on to the hotel 's rather undistinguished forecourt .
2 As Gabriel took his seat at the top of the pageant , hidden by a wooden cloud , Garvey robed himself down below in the Mason 's wedding robe , and Izzie emerged from nowhere to mend the tear in the shoulder-seam .
3 Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure .
4 In just under a month 's time , Saturday June the fourteenth to be precise , the university will be holding its Silver Jubilee Open Day .
5 PRAISE and cash poured in yesterday after the Mirror 's shock issue on Somalia .
6 I liked Brahms 's youthful B major Trio for its wholly natural flow — as if the players were carried along willy-nilly on the music 's own tide .
7 Earl Grey never goes down well in a boys ' school — there 's that touch of Milady 's Boudoir about it .
8 muscle just came down here like a woman 's breast .
9 Völkisch opinion on these subjects came increasingly to the fore with simplistic solutions that fitted in well with the Junker status quo .
10 For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again …
11 far down there on the valley 's floor I heard
12 From her they had learned that Jerome Fanshawe had a bungalow at Eastover between Eastbourne and Seaford and that he and his wife and daughter had driven down there for a week 's holiday on May 17th .
13 ‘ Two men to get out of a van down there in a minute 's time and tell my father that Sean Walsh is a criminal wanted for six murders in Dublin and that he has to be handcuffed and out of there this instant . ’
14 Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night .
15 When he 'd finished , the attendant stuck the chamois leather in his belt with a flourish and leaned down again to the driver 's window .
16 And with two TV networks now competing for a UK cable channel , a similar service is set to take off here by the year 's end .
17 Duane 's artistic bent has been shown off frequently in the group 's Invasion of The Wedding Present fanzine .
18 A flock of chattering sparrows came over the Cages , landed on the grass by the litter bin where Woil had taken stance , and then twittered off again over the tigers ' cages .
19 The resort village is not the end of the road ; indeed , it is possible to ignore it as you drive on up to the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin beyond .
20 She climbed up on to the Magician 's shoe .
21 C'zinsit bounced out of the saddle , touched the ground with his feet , then vaulted up on to the mare 's back again .
22 He climbed up on to the Reeve 's Way and followed it northwards into Goughdale .
23 To the massed spectators in the stands , flung in an instant from joyous acclaim of a Royal winner to horrified , dumbfounded silence , Devon Loch had seemed to leap at an imaginary obstacle before slithering to the ground and skidding along to a halt , the momentum throwing Francis up on to the horse 's neck .
24 We can never be a hundred per cent sure with security , we are , it is a public building , we do encourage er patients and their relatives to come up on to the children 's wards as part of the treatment er to make it a much more homely atmosphere .
25 But when he stepped up on to the conductor 's rostrum for the opening production of a new season , he was — every time — filled with a sense of sheer elation .
26 Then , putting one foot firmly in the stirrup , he swung up on to the Arab 's back .
27 Intel Corp has been less than enthusiastic about the future of its i860 — getting the 80586 into battle readiness in such a short space of time has taken up much of the company 's research and development resources in any case .
28 Well the centre is made up largely of the president er and the congress but the congress is made up of politicians elected from the states local , local politicians locally accountable .
29 But not really frightened , buoyed up always by a child 's invincible courage , the courage that comes from a sense of immortality .
30 And of course , they had these signs up about la up close to a signal er twenty , twenty five or thirty or whatever it was , that was miles an hour , they were supposed to reduce to that .
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