Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 2 | IT is unfortunate that NASUWT , the career teachers ' organisation , should be banging on about quality in education in a leaflet just issued . |
| 3 | But now it is one o'clock , and I , being only a volunteer , can step down for lunch without loss of face . |
| 4 | After its departure from government , Sir Satcam Boolell stepped down as leader in favour of Nuvin Ramgoolam , son of Mauritius ' first Prime Minister , Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam . |
| 5 | Marble can be sawn or broken up for building or burned for lime , and a great deal has certainly gone that way ; but the melting down of bronze for conversion to tools , utensils , armour , coin , is far more tempting . |
| 6 | In distinctive low-wing flight wings are hardly raised above horizontal plane and depressed far down below body at bottom of downstroke . |
| 7 | The old cheese presses which had lain dusty in the stable loft were brought down with difficulty on account of their immense weight and set up on the flagged floor . |
| 8 | Gabriel turned and looked straight into Lucie 's green-stained face glistening with grease ; a leather forked tongue was clenched between his teeth , and his black hair was slicked down with water in front of the green knitted hood . |
| 9 | Such subtleties as happiness and misery are contributed by me , along with satisfaction at increase of cuckoo-pint and survival of woodpeckers . |
| 10 | There 's the 950 year old Imperial Castle to inspect along with street after street of colourful shops , cafés and restaurants . |
| 11 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 12 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 13 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 14 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 15 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 16 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 17 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 18 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 19 | COMPUTONE ROLLS IN FROM ROSWELL WITH INTELLISERVER FOR TCP/IP ETHERNETS |
| 20 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 21 | If you are going to try to convince a reader that something wildly unlikely has taken place then one useful tool at your command is to produce a story that sweeps the reader along from incident to incident in a headlong tumble . |
| 22 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 23 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 24 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 25 | You can cut down on cost per unit by continuing with the old machinery . |
| 26 | Brought down to prose by Falstaff for a few lines of word-play , Hal leaves him with another line of verse , marking the difference of ethos between them . |
| 27 | If the nearly-invisible Mrs Shephard is the John Major of parliamentary women — the glamorous Mrs Bottomley , 44 , is more like an old-fashioned ambitious networker , closely plugged in to politics by virtue of both her birth and her marriage . |
| 28 | Others have been gunned down at home in front of their children . |
| 29 | That knowledge , handed down by word of mouth over generations is invaluable . |
| 30 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |