Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [num] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 2 | But just as the kettle was coming to the boil a black cloud billowed in through one of the open windows and enveloped the entire tea party . |
| 3 | This game ; this day will go down as one of the blackest . |
| 4 | THE 138th Boat Race will go down as one of the classic encounters in the long history of the event . |
| 5 | It 'll go down as one of the famous unsolved crimes of history . ’ |
| 6 | He dropped ice into his glass and crossed to sink down into one of the nearby sofas . |
| 7 | Gaining the peaceful emptiness of her mother 's large sitting-room , with its windows overlooking the spectacular view over the water to Fort St Angelo , she sank down into one of the green chintz sofas and took stock of herself . |
| 8 | David Oates , from Four Marks , scored another fine second place in round four of the British Group N. Saloon Car Championship , racing the Peugeot 309 GTI 16v . |
| 9 | In 1953–54 the figure of 2,982 , down from 3,151 in the previous year , dismayed the District Secretary , especially since branches had been asked to make a drive to recruit new members in Jubilee Year , 1953 . |
| 10 | Dr Richard Beeching had been brought in in 1961 with the prime mandate of improving commercial viability . |
| 11 | It had been shut down in 1991 after an International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) report said it was in " poor condition " [ see ED 48 ] . |
| 12 | Franca sat down in one of the low plump chairs and began to cry . |
| 13 | Once inside the door , however , she found that her leg was still too stiff and tingling to move properly , so she sat down in one of the pale , bentwood breakfast chairs … |
| 14 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
| 15 | Other recent cases of " friendly fire " involving US forces included air attacks on UK personnel during the Gulf war [ see p. 38927 ; see also pp. 36169-70 for the shooting down in 1988 of an Iranian commercial airliner ] . |
| 16 | Mitch sat down on one of the fancy white chairs with the scrolls on the back and the dainty feet . |
| 17 | The waiter placed her coffee down on one of the small tables with a flourish , then whisked another chair from an empty table to make up the numbers . |
| 18 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |
| 19 | He sat down on one of the bare wooden steps . |
| 20 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 21 | She sat down on one of the grey bucket seats to calm herself , to get her breath , but instead she began to cry . |
| 22 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 23 | Miss Barrett sat in the chair , and Rachaela sat down on one of the hard chairs by the table . |
| 24 | He began to feel rather uneasy as he sat down on one of the hard , rexine-covered arm-chairs . |
| 25 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 26 | As Mrs Cohen sat herself down on one of the wooden kitchen chairs , a basin between her feet , and commenced with some savagery to pluck the feathers from the hen 's carcass , Judith made no comment . |
| 27 | In his memoirs the former president writes , ‘ At the beginning of my second term , Congress , the bureaucracy and the media were still working in concert to maintain the ideas and ideology of the traditional Eastern liberal establishment that had come down to 1973 through the New Deal , the New Frontier , and the Great Society . ’ |
| 28 | Death sentences were handed down to eight of the accused . |
| 29 | Rusper , founded for twelve nuns and a prioress in the twelfth century , was down to two by the sixteenth century , both of whom were very aged . |
| 30 | Any unwanted guest soon found himself bundled down to one of the lower floors . |