Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A full on-licence enables the licensee to sell liquor for consumption either on or off the premises to any member of the public who is permitted by the law to consume it . |
| 2 | How many passengers is it envisaged will get on or off the trains at Stratford ? |
| 3 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 4 | Many talks fail because speakers talk down or over the heads of their audience . |
| 5 | ( 6 ) In this section — " disposition " has the same meaning as in the Law of Property Act 1925 ; " interest in land " means any estate , interest or charge in or over land or in or over the proceeds of sale of land . |
| 6 | ( 6 ) In subsection ( 5 ) above — " disposition " and " purchaser " have the same meanings as in the Law of Property Act 1925 ; and " interest in land " means any estate , interest or charge in or over land or in or over the proceeds of sale of land . |
| 7 | In all , more than three out of five older women were living in or on the margins of poverty . |
| 8 | I beg to move , That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for certain descriptions of shops in England and Wales to be open for trade on Sunday , subject to their being registered with the local authority ; to impose a general prohibition on the opening on Sunday of other shops , extending this prohibition to certain business premises which on week-days are open for the service of customers ; to provide protection for persons employed in or for the purposes of a shop which is , or is to be , registered for Sunday opening , where they have conscientious or other objections to working on Sunday ; to make consequential and other repeals in the Shops Act 1950 ; and for connected purposes . |
| 9 | It would certainly include : the physical lay-out of the houses we live in and of the settlements of which they form a part ; the general pattern of conventional procedures by which foodstuffs and other necessities of life are produced and distributed and finally consumed ; the way children are brought up ; the way tasks are allocated to different members of the household ; the ideas we have about the nature of reality and of the cosmos , our sense of what is the proper way to behave towards kin and neighbours and persons in authority ; the kinds of clothes and the styles of language which are appropriate to different occasions , etc . |
| 10 | Gould was clearly reluctant to return to Tasmania so soon , when so many novelties awaited him in and beyond the cedar-brushes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 11 | She went in and up the stairs to some rooms at the top of the house . |
| 12 | For a week or so in February , a pair of longtailed tits was often to be seen in and beneath the shrubs near the nutbag . |
| 13 | Weaving region : mainly in and around the cities of Karachi , Lahore , Islamabad and Rawalpindi . |
| 14 | How much more would a black hole , occasionally passing through or on the outskirts of the Oort Cloud , affect the comets ? |
| 15 | In the deterioration of Count Rudolf 's manners and behaviour , MacMillan shows more clearly than anywhere else in his works how any mental and physical breakdown must show through and beyond the technicalities of the dance . |
| 16 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 17 | Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong … |
| 18 | SPORT reflects the ills of society and , in the current climate of moral torpor , perhaps we should not be surprised by declining standards of behaviour both on and off the fields of activity . |
| 19 | The horse screamed as the bullet scored its neck , and it seemed to leap with its hindlegs , making the rear a mighty buck that shipped the rider off and into the shallows of the lake . |
| 20 | So , if anybody saw me on the morning after , either hobbling up or down the stairs in St Swithin 's or leaping up and down ( very slowly ) , with an ‘ ooh , ah ’ , accompanied by much frantic rubbing of calf muscles , you know why . |
| 21 | With no time to wait for an ambulance , Colin , 27 , rang the midwife who issued instructions as he dashed up and down the stairs between the phone and the bathroom . |
| 22 | He leapt up and down the stairs as if he was in a race . |
| 23 | All right up round here ideal , up and down the bumps over the guard , but when you get it out on the road , very hard work , similar sort of ride , well I suppose it will be , run around the you 've got ta push around |
| 24 | You can imagine the squirrels running up and down the trees without seeing them , so something else is alive . |
| 25 | I hope too that this beautiful countryside and this beautiful college will be conducive to good thoughts , reflections and reappraisals , and if I might say to the men I hope there are not too many of the female students floating up and down the corridors to further divert your attention . |
| 26 | Slide your hands away from each other , up and across the shoulders to the back of the neck . |
| 27 | The wind was hissing loudly over them , whipping off their tops and spraying them into a conveyor-belt of sand , an opaque draught , streaming across the road and up and over the dunes on the other side . |
| 28 | Eva was out and up the steps before the other leader , greeting her deputy with an affectionate hug and kiss , much to the surprise of the man who was still climbing the steps . |
| 29 | She heard him call out and by the barks behind her knew that Hector followed . |
| 30 | Dean Jones lost no time in demonstrating his ability to hit the ball hard and often on his competitive debut for Durham , but the boundaries he scattered around and beyond the ropes during their Sunday League win over Lancashire were no more impressive than the speed with which he hurtled the singles and made ones into twos . |