Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured .
2 As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample .
3 But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins .
4 Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’
5 He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup .
6 I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other .
7 Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 .
8 The revenues of both companies were well down on the same month in 1991 , showing a large proportion of their sales coming form the cheaper ranges .
9 Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job .
10 Comes down to the same thing in the end .
11 A senescent safecracker and an odd kid break in to the same house at the same time : the safecracker for cash , the kid to apple-pie the beds , read the mail and raid the fridge .
12 then she said they 've been down at the this time of year
13 There was a lot of short-pitched bowling , with a vast array of slips and gullies , but Gooch ( 8 ) survived a low catch to Inzamam off Akram , and Stewart ( 14 ) was put down by the same fielder at full stretch off the same bowler when 14 .
14 However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income .
15 These sorts of books have such an excellent hardback sale which is not always carried through to the same extent with the paperback .
16 Two beetles start off from the same point in opposite directions .
17 With precise control both units can be set to operate on and off at the same setting with consequent better heat distribution .
18 Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn .
19 Mirra Komarovsky comes up with the same finding in her survey of American working-class marriage .
20 Generally and for the most part they 'll come up with the same sum at the end of the day and if I go to two different philosophers and say , erm can you tell me about free will ?
21 ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . )
22 But even between children brought up in the same home with the same advantages , one with another , at 7 there are still huge differences .
23 And secondly , and very much wrapped up in the same point with this , they 're also coy about the sort of people they 're looking for .
24 All counting numbers , or " natural " numbers are made up from the same group of symbols or figures : 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 .
25 The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view .
26 In Britain , around £1.2 billion ( $1.9 billion ) is likely to be raised through IPOs in the second quarter , well up on the same period in 1992 .
27 Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both .
28 In the south-east , it shot up over the same period from 4 to 9.7pc .
29 We were delighted with his debut over fences when he beat Forest Sun in a hot novice contest at Worcester and he followed up at the same course on Wednesday .
30 The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them .
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