Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The Act does not give a constable power to search a person or a vehicle or anything in or on a vehicle unless he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that he will find stolen or prohibited articles .
2 ‘ being a person on foot ’ Means walking or running etc. as opposed to being carried in or on a vehicle or riding a horse etc .
3 And on and off a shower or two of white arrows , when I thought I needed them . ’
4 The tall Finn and Peter Horbury together raised her up and in a moment or two her eyelids fluttered open .
5 You could make a regular all-over pattern , but I think that they look best spaced out or in a patch or a group .
6 Writing in the British Medical Journal recently , she points out that between a quarter and a third of 15-year-olds smoke .
7 She won the star female part in Batman against competition from almost every actress in the US — but when she came to England to start filming , she had to drop out because of an accident and lost the role to Kim Basinger .
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