Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have finished , go back over the whole list and circle those four or five things that you would like to work on for yourself over the next week or so . |
| 2 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 3 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 4 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 5 | They found him under the yew tree and after a rather stormy scene , during which Bigwig grew rough and impatient , he was bullied rather than persuaded into going down with them into the great burrow . |
| 6 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 7 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 8 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 9 | On Saturdays as a special treat Granpa would allow me to go along with him to the early morning market in Covent Garden , where he would select the fruit and vegetables that we would later sell from his pitch , just opposite Mr Salmon 's and Dunkley 's , the fish and chippy that stood next to the baker 's . |
| 10 | " … given to the Miller of Conistone for going along with me onto the fell 1s . " |
| 11 | A neighbour suggested I go along with her to the local WI and , despite my reservations , I had a wonderful time . |
| 12 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 13 | I 've played along with you for the past hour . |
| 14 | The figures are left in the orange colour of the clay , the background painted in round them in the shiny black : a purely decorative variation ; and it has been plausibly suggested that the strange ‘ negative ’ idea was inspired by the custom of washing the background of marble reliefs with a blue or red against which the mainly white figures were left standing out . |
| 15 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 16 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 17 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 18 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |
| 19 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 20 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 21 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 22 | So are gilts , especially if you nip in to them before the next — perhaps imminent — interest rate cut . |
| 23 | She sat down beside him on the cool grass . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's wrong , Laura ? ’ he asked , coming to sit down beside her on the black leather sofa . |
| 25 | He followed his plan , eased himself down beside her on the cushioned sofa and slid his arm along the back behind her . |
| 26 | She did not get up and come towards him as he got out , but waited until he had crossed the grass to sit down beside her on the wooden seat . |
| 27 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 28 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you remember that I want you in by one at the latest . ’ |
| 30 | So Kenny Parker took over from me for the second half . |