Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue .
2 In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps .
3 ‘ He 's in there and you 're out here , carrying on for the children 's sake .
4 Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing .
5 I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way .
6 This required the ATB staff to have a good knowledge of the family situations of wives attending courses and to arrange course times that fitted in with the families ' needs and routines .
7 Then , by watching and joining in with the children 's play , the balance of new and old can be altered as their interests change , without having everything in the water at once .
8 The new nanny , a reassuring figure in her brown Norland uniform , came in with the children 's coats and Victoria automatically dropped the conversation .
9 That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda .
10 Unfortunately , the Sports-channel package consists of 17 weekly , one-hour highlight shows , with the national feed on Saturday mornings at 10am ( wedged in with the children 's cartoons ) .
11 I now felt far more confident and comfortable knowing that I could refuse to go along with the guards ' antics if they really upset me .
12 I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours .
13 On Aug. 28 , the Interior Minister , Daouda Rabiou , made a statement on national television apparently going along with the men 's action , and the government subsequently seemed powerless to do otherwise .
14 And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench .
15 On National day John Kempton also had a runner at Worcester — Three Dons in a novice hurdle — and opted to take the ride there : having duly won , he settled down in the jockeys ' changing room to watch the National on television , safe in the knowledge that his father Jack was at Liverpool to supervise Foinavon 's forlorn attempt .
16 Down in the photographers ' pit , a battalion of WWF security gentlemen keep the writhing , crowd-surfing mob back by redirecting those two-minute messiahs that get passed too close to the barrier .
17 It was a feast , swilled down in the boys ' case at least .
18 She looked down on the men 's masks and costumes , listening to their chatter , and stayed silent .
19 The sun was high in the sky and beating down on the mourners ' heads .
20 So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender .
21 Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’
22 Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it .
23 Native rapture at the tour is revealed in the columns of the Ceylon Sportsman , which reported its every detail down to the Australians ' results in social terms of tennis and golf .
24 With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath .
25 At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen .
26 Then Mellor carted his wife and young sons down to the Halls ' home in Upper Beeding , Sussex , for a stage-managed ‘ happy families ’ photo-call .
27 The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench .
28 Juliet went slowly along to the nurses ' station , where the trolley of files was kept .
29 The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet .
30 While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life .
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