Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 2 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 3 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 4 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 5 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 6 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 7 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 8 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 9 | By the 14th Serafin is being steered back across Whitehall , out of the pale sunshine , and in through the threatening corridors of the Cabinet Office towards these peaceful quarters at the rear , where rooms have already been quietly set aside for him . |
| 10 | The smell of the flowers came in through the open windows of the bus . |
| 11 | The Royal Duke was a fishermen 's pub with an afternoon trade from men who had brought their catch in during the small hours of the morning . |
| 12 | Ian James walked in during the early hours of the morning and stole a leather jacket and a handbag from the hall . |
| 13 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 14 | After the news of the secret negotiations between the government , Leyland Vehicles and GM broke in February 1986 , the government allowed alternative bids to be put in for the different parts of the firm . |
| 15 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 16 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 17 | For in between the two pages of words he had brought himself off , face stretched tight with lust , mind gurgling with images of the girl with black hair and red boots kneeling on a bed so that her full young breasts with long pink nipples dangled into his palms as he mounted her from behind , calling for her to cream , baby , cream . |
| 18 | The weather may have helped but , as she saw things now in between the momentary spasms of pain , it was going to happen anyway . |
| 19 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 20 | C.P.V.E. , T.V.E.I. , G.C.S.E. , A/S levels will lead to a breaking down of the traditional patterns of provision at 16+ . |
| 21 | And an ordinary lightning flash is simply the breaking down of the insulating properties of air which discharges a momentary electric current to those clouds . |
| 22 | ‘ Take him down below the three flights of hurdles , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ then bring him up over them at a useful pace . |
| 23 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
| 24 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 25 | A sole unit that blended good adhesion both uphill and down with the shock-absorbing characteristics of the chamfered heel of the K-SB3 was Berghaus 's Trionic , which appeared in late 1983 . |
| 26 | It climbs steeply through trees , into quiet hillside streets from which little lanes and stairways drop suddenly down into the blue distances of the city . |
| 27 | He went down into the foetid holds of the ‘ sick ships ’ of the second fleet where hundreds lay dying or ill . |
| 28 | I kept telling myself that I had killed her — had killed her as surely as if my own hands had sent her plunging down into the muddy waters of the Thames . |
| 29 | ‘ If you can do that , then you have in your mind what the strong target notes are and you can start going in with the other notes of the scale . |
| 30 | The detailed character of financial , administrative and legal restraints imposed by Whitehall may change but the general effect remains the same — local councillors are expected to fit in with the political priorities of the government of the day . |