Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 2 | For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest . |
| 3 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 4 | If he loses both he will still want to hang on in for the three autumn World Cup games in which England 's fate is still in his own hands . |
| 5 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 6 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 7 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 8 | God knows I 'm a failure , an insignificant speck of human nothingness trampled on indifferently by every casual passer-by , thought Dyson as he followed his wife out of the kitchen into the living-room , with his fists clenched in his trouser pockets and his face set in an unyielding frown , but there is one thing in this world that I 'm not going to stand for , and that 's being nagged by my wife . |
| 9 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 10 | When they entered the front room , Father Poole sat down wearily on the nearest chair . |
| 11 | I fell down thankfully in the squidgy chair and drank some tea while he hovered round waiting to pounce again . |
| 12 | I had a drink of water as my throat was hurting , picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals and sat down thankfully in an easy chair . |
| 13 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 14 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 15 | And they 'd go down right over the main road , right over the fields , over the railway , through the fields along the beach there . |
| 16 | Or not unless they join in wholeheartedly with the other lot . |
| 17 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 18 | This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork . |
| 19 | He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach . |
| 20 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 21 | In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man . |
| 22 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 23 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
| 24 | She turned to look at him , and he drew her gently down on to the cool grass . |
| 25 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 26 | Move down on to the second page then . |
| 27 | She flopped down on to the padded driver 's seat , planning to catch up on her sleep . |
| 28 | One hand was tangled in her hair , holding her down , and with the other he traced a line past her collarbone and down on to the softer flesh beneath , tugging the neckline of her dress lower and lower , until Folly could feel it brush the swollen aureoles of her breasts under the silk of her bra . |
| 29 | On other JAR matters , the Library staff restructuring has pushed a lot more work down on to the front desk staff , and I 'm sure that the effects will be noticed in future . |
| 30 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |