Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He checked , but only momentarily , then he had jumped down onto the track a knife in his hand . |
| 2 | Down in the Mootwalk a woman laughed and from the water a swan gave its harsh , grating cry . |
| 3 | While the rate of inflation had fallen from 10.9 per cent in September-October 1990 to below 9 per cent in February 1991 , unemployment in the United Kingdom ( including Northern Ireland ) had risen ( seasonally adjusted ) from around 5.7 per cent in the first half of 1990 to 6.0 per cent by October and to 7.0 per cent by February 1991 ; in the last quarter of 1990 the index of industrial production was about 3@1/2 per cent down on the figure a year earlier and gross domestic product at constant 1985 factor prices about 1@1/2 per cent lower . |
| 4 | Someone brought him down to the hospital a couple of hours ago , and since then his condition has deteriorated . |
| 5 | So far as the law of affray is concerned , the provision in section 3(5) that the offence may be committed in private as well as in public states the existing law on the point , and arguably ‘ corrects the error ’ that had crept in to the law a century or so earlier . |
| 6 | On 2 February 1989 Jones sent in to the APS an abstract of his intended talk which stated in part ‘ We have accumulated considerable evidence for a new form of cold nuclear fusion which occurs when hydrogen isotopes are loaded into various materials , notably crystalline solids ( without muons ) ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 7 | Further along on the left a gate provides entrance to the attractive woodlands of the Old Beeslack Estate which adjoin the new Beeslack High School . |
| 8 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 9 | When , in 1974 an American friend brought me over from the States a copy of Elizabeth Gould-Davis 's The First Sex , I had a scholar 's confirmation of my conclusions . |
| 10 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 11 | All around him were the sounds of life ; birds chattered in the trees , insects had their own conversations , off in the distance a dog was barking . |
| 12 | But be careful , Write-Protect labels can come off inside the drive an cause a real mess ! |
| 13 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 14 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 15 | Well we picked up after the war a bit . |
| 16 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 17 | There had grown up in the Commandos a tradition that to be a tough regiment it was necessary to act tough all the time in the barracks and on leave , and they were liable to be badly dressed , ill disciplined and noisy in the streets and restaurants of Cairo . |
| 18 | I woke up in the night a pain here |
| 19 | Right good and you should always check that before you draw it just in case your pie chart comes out and put , put that up in the air a bit I 'll just show you that , those are good there , but up in the air like that |
| 20 | It was creeping down from outside , from somewhere far to the north , well up in the hills a mile or more away . |
| 21 | This built up finance , but , perhaps more importantly , built up in the community a knowledge of the organisation and about deafness . |
| 22 | The largest intact building , erected beside the small church , was occupied by three resident monks , a lay servant , and a group of men from Berwick , who , under the supervision of a black-robed clerk , were carrying out and setting up before the building a trestle table with a stool for each end , and a couple of benches . |
| 23 | Ludens had picked up from the floor a sketch , acrylic on paper , representing ( perhaps ) a pale human figure emerging from a dark marsh or river . |
| 24 | I mean , all I 've done is walk up to the school a couple of times in them . |
| 25 | I get around , as you know ; I 've seen all the schools , right from the ragged one , the penny , the tuppence , the threepence , right up to the fourpence a week one . |
| 26 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 27 | They served up to the public a version of events and only those , like Dexter , who were privy to the truth would be able to distinguish how close that version of events was to reality . |
| 28 | On the steps up to the plane a group of irate Peruvians waved tickets as the embattled stewardess tried to explain that there were no seats . |
| 29 | Will I be able to move the car up outside the house a bit later on ? |
| 30 | It is simpler for golfers , of course , because there is an over-50 competition , besides which golf does not depend so much upon eye and agility and by using the wrinkles picked up over the years a player may still be competitive in his 50th year , as Raymond Floyd conclusively proved in the Masters at Augusta . |