Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | When they entered the front room , Father Poole sat down wearily on the nearest chair . |
| 10 | I fell down thankfully in the squidgy chair and drank some tea while he hovered round waiting to pounce again . |
| 11 | And they 'd go down right over the main road , right over the fields , over the railway , through the fields along the beach there . |
| 12 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 13 | Or not unless they join in wholeheartedly with the other lot . |
| 14 | She turned to look at him , and he drew her gently down on to the cool grass . |
| 15 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 16 | Move down on to the second page then . |
| 17 | She flopped down on to the padded driver 's seat , planning to catch up on her sleep . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The thinning veil of cloud eddied in a gust of wind , and suddenly we were below it , looking down on to the flat roofs of a town spread out in a broad valley of rain-washed green . |
| 22 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |
| 23 | ’ He tossed them down on to the small saucer on the table . |
| 24 | Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry . |
| 25 | We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf . |
| 26 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 27 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 28 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
| 29 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
| 30 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |