Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 2 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 3 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 4 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 5 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 6 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample . |
| 9 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 12 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 13 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 14 | This is an eminently Basque town and the one I would choose to stay in of the several alternatives along this coast ; it is more intimate than Bayonne , less pompous than Biarritz and livelier than Hendaye . |
| 15 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
| 16 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 17 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 18 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 19 | However , they went along with the many changes in the hope that the increasing emphasis on training might help our young people to find jobs . |
| 20 | Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral National Congress , comprising the Chamber of Deputies ( consisting of 180 members elected for a five-year term ) and the Senate ( consisting of 60 members elected for a five-year term along with the former Presidents of constitutional governments who have the status of life senators ) . |
| 21 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 24 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 27 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 28 | Comes down to the same thing in the end . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |