Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think in some ways it 's better , because girls are meant to get on better in the sciences in girls ' schools ; they 're meant to be pushed backwards a bit in boys ' schools . |
| 2 | A broad terrace ran round it with tufts of herbs growing on it and broken steps leading down on to the ruins of a lawn . |
| 3 | Ellen , who was utterly delighted with her achievement , followed him to spray the churning mess over his hair , then down on to the decks of Dream Baby as Sweetman jumped panic-stricken from our gunwale . |
| 4 | The inhabitants were used to the smell , which mixed in nicely with the odours from Deller 's soap factory and the mingled scents from the river . |
| 5 | To help you get a lot more information straight from the horse 's mouth ( and nose , and ears , and tail ) , Lucy Rees breaks you in gently to the basics of equine body language . |
| 6 | The page numbers of relevant sections should have been noted down together with the names of other potentially useful books and articles which the author has written . |
| 7 | Robyn picks her way across the floor , putting her shapely boots down carefully in the spaces between books , back numbers of Critical Inquiry and Women 's Review , LP albums by Bach , Philip Glass and Phil Collins ( her musical tastes are eclectic ) and the occasional wineglass or coffee cup , to the desk . |
| 8 | Thomson floats it in straight into the hands of Tommy Wright who hits it first time quite sensibly but a bit too strongly straight back to his opposite number . |
| 9 | There are many tales of naturalists who have gone to some place in search of a rare species , only to find that a member of that very species floats down out of the trees on gentle wings to besport itself before his amazed eyes , or appear in whatever appropriate manner to his appreciative gaze . |
| 10 | Our piloting suggests that there is very little information here which could not be filled in out of the heads of appropriate teachers on these courses , so filling in the questionnaire should not cost a great deal of time for each person . |
| 11 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 12 | Policeman having a little word with a sa , motorcyclist down here by the looks of it ! |
| 13 | This last point is a familiar one , which fits in well with the remarks on observing patterns that I have discussed above . |
| 14 | The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model . |
| 15 | He addressed his students as ‘ Gentlemen ’ , and drew them into his subject by the use of ‘ we ’ and ‘ you ’ ( a contrast with McFadyean 's ‘ one ’ that fits in well with the relationships between these two different teachers and their classes . ) |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry I blew my top , but I had visions of finding you down there on the rocks like the first time . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe Sal and Alec really were having a dirty weekend down there with the hedgehogs among the cow-pats ? ’ |
| 18 | Across the Horse Guards down there to the doors of the Admiralty … |
| 19 | Anyway , the water goes up under pressure into the tanks in the roof and feeds down again to the washrooms by gravity . ’ |
| 20 | A fourth rival stood down recently in the interests of the public good . |
| 21 | Shall we press on anyway with the minutes of the last meeting ? |
| 22 | But it is not necessary to share Herbert Casson 's breathless enthusiasms , or to reach point-by-point agreement with his educational philosophy , to recognise the quite different moral emphasis that shows through repeatedly in the writings of pre-war youth workers and educationalists : an emphasis which saw youthful energy and also youthful misconduct as the spark of life , rather than the death-knell of the old traditions . |
| 23 | The same Oxbridge colleges figure over and over again in the biographies of these and many other singers . |
| 24 | The importance of living up to what was required by one 's status and what one had been used to came out over and over again in the discussions of the time , and ‘ prudence ’ became a moral imperative in the process of becoming axiomatic in the 1830s and 1840s . |
| 25 | The significance of the election of the collector of supply for parliamentary politics is emphasised over and over again by the politicians in their correspondence . |
| 26 | He usually also went off somewhere under the auspices of some ecologically minded group . |
| 27 | At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered . |
| 28 | Where there are complicated angles in the shoulders I generally find that the most straightforward method is to mark off directly from the parts to which the rail is to be jointed . |
| 29 | Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying . |
| 30 | Despite the Conservatives ' election victory and the easing of rates since their high point in August 1990 , recovery seemed a long way off even before the events of Black Wednesday . |