Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took my arm and we walked on together past the schoolboy eyes . |
| 2 | Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it . |
| 3 | The latest published figures for Lloyd 's show £575m ( $950m ) of pre-tax profit in 1987 ( Lloyd 's syndicates close their accounts only after three years ) , down slightly on the record profits of 1986 . |
| 4 | Robbie was n't normally of a nervous disposition , but one did hear such horrific stories of lone women being attacked in out of the way spots . |
| 5 | or in out of the way places , |
| 6 | Epilepsy has now come in ahead of the field thanks to the ingenuity and determination of During and Spencer at Yale . |
| 7 | Theodora wiped her hands on the damp grass and lay down again beneath the currant bushes . |
| 8 | It blended in beautifully with the rubbish bags and empty bottles waiting for the refuse men , but with my luck they 'd probably arrive before I could collect it . |
| 9 | At first I get on best with the Highland laddies , matching them dram for dram and can for can , taking their cigarettes and suffering their remarks on the lines of ‘ No I still smoke ’ when I offer them my Silk Cuts but gradually as we get drunker I start to feel uncomfortable with their attitude to the travellers and even more so to women , and Howie , the guy I met last night , talks about how he used to slap the wife around and now the bitch is in one of these fucking women 's refuges and if he ever finds her he 'll fucking kick seven kinds of shit out of her . |
| 10 | Bill Baudelaire would n't be calmly eating dinner with his daughter if there were a multi-horse crisis going on over in the racecourse stables . |
| 11 | We shall pass through there to the city docks . ’ |
| 12 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 13 | But he goes off just before a ship sails , without telling anyone . |
| 14 | We set off again along the gravel paths . |
| 15 | A jackhammer started up somewhere beyond the prison walls . |
| 16 | She could hear the clatter of iron shutters being cranked up over at the amusement arcades . |
| 17 | The rugged mountains rose up straight from the river banks and were shaded in greens and browns with gashes of copper where erosion has taken its toll . |
| 18 | It is significant that in July 1939 , at a time when Stalin was actively negotiating the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler , Nizan was quoting Zhdanov to the effect that the finalising of the tripartite peace agreement was being held up solely by the delaying tactics of France and Great Britain . |
| 19 | Even up here in the wood miles away from the class-room Philip felt his face burn at the way he 'd made a fool of himself . |
| 20 | This experienced man 's disquiet stemmed from the fact that the taking of a statutory sample , while visible in the organization , is ( as he saw it ) a potentially inefficient use of an officer 's time , and the pressure to take a formal sample to show up well in the league tables placed an improper constraint on the discretion necessary to do the job efficiently . |
| 21 | And , and the highway police are up there with the state police , they can go anywhere within the state , yeah ? |
| 22 | ‘ God , that would turn a few of them over in their graves up there under the yew trees , ’ Benny 's father had said , but again there was no explanation of why . |
| 23 | Eventually , a central department set up jointly by the refugee committees helped to alleviate major problems like the treatment of refugees as Nazis , refugees and Nazis being kept in close proximity , inadequate accommodation , lack of adequate medical care and the separation of families . |
| 24 | I think that 's a a lamentable state of affairs , and their children , and their children 's children are going to have to pay the price for the short-sightedness that 's going on now in the ivory towers of the of the city , the the banking institutions and the financial institutions of the country . |
| 25 | Storm waves produced in open oceans travel on far from the storm centres with velocities which depend on wave length , the longer the wave length the higher the velocity , and on the height of the waves , the lower the waves the less readily they are damped out . |
| 26 | It was a room within a room , with windows looking out on to the cabin walls beyond . |
| 27 | A few minutes later , installed in the office , a small room looking out on to the quarantine quarters , Sophie tried to find a topic of conversation that would keep things on a professional basis . |
| 28 | She walked back over to the standing stones and leant her forehead against one of them . |
| 29 | Cardiff looked back over to the reception windows at Frye 's silhouette . |
| 30 | To look to look back further to the sailing boats , no doubt would be to recall an even busier village . |