Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 2 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She felt herself to be of right there , to have a place upon its departure platforms , and the London train drew in for her with a particular significance . |
| 5 | They will have it in for us in a big way . |
| 6 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And er , then all of a sudden I opened a sort of a door up in there , the light flashed down like somebody with a big torch you know . |
| 9 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He relaxed his death-hold on me and made me sit down with him on a convenient bench . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Julius 's eyes bored down into hers with a sudden hot light . |
| 14 | Well Chris says he 's got ta keep in with him for a little while , he said he |
| 15 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 16 | Undaunted , the young Scot chased after the opposition in one shoe and came in with them to the final take-over . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 19 | " … given to the Miller of Conistone for going along with me onto the fell 1s . " |
| 20 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 21 | A neighbour suggested I go along with her to the local WI and , despite my reservations , I had a wonderful time . |
| 22 | The entire unit set out from Kabrit at night , carrying weights to simulate the bombs which we would have to cart along with us on a real raid . |
| 23 | From these bits of activity , a richer life could develop ; but it is vital that whatever Harry and Elizabeth choose is something they both really want to do and not a situation where she goes along with it in a patronising way , and then leaves him high and dry . |
| 24 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 25 | I 've played along with you for the past hour . |
| 26 | ‘ A gin and tonic , please , ’ she replied , and , when he brought it over and set it down before her on a low table , ‘ It 's very good of you to see me , ’ she thought she should mention . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 30 | He turned and saw the waiter bearing down on him with an anxious look on his face . |