Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight . |
| 2 | But Fael-Inis was concentrating on spreading honey on to a wedge of bread , and seemed not to notice . |
| 3 | Smiling broadly to herself she closed the heavy wooden door behind us and fastened the little chain latch on to a nail on the adjacent door . |
| 4 | Then Connie would move into the sanatorium along with a lot of legal talent he had lined up to look after his interests — and Connie 's , too , of course — and I 'd head for home with my five hundred . ’ |
| 5 | Place the cake tin base down on a sheet of paper ( double thickness if necessary ) , and draw round it with a pencil . |
| 6 | The effect of this , of course , is to induce an ability to postpone oral instinctual gratification along with a concern about the availability of food — a character ideally suited to the demands of delayed-return systems of subsistence such as seasonal hunter-gathering or , still more , cultivation . |
| 7 | An orangery , a formal canal , a Gothick tower , one of Britain 's most fantastic grottoes , a Gothick garden house and a mock fortified bastion are all crammed into its limited acreage along with a statue of Hercules being toppled by the weight of his own club . |
| 8 | There is the feel of a cold offshore mist to the hospital room , a life-is-a-bitch feel , made sharp by the hostile ganglia of medical technology , plasma bags dripping , vile tubing snaking in and out of the body , blinking monitors levelling illusion , muffling existence down to a sort of digital bingo . |
| 9 | For sure , Disneyhood wo n't be challenging Swans in the heavyweight ring just yet , but they frequently flourish a muscular grip on proceedings , ultimately putting their collective foot down for a finale of ‘ Sight Return ’ , intimidating in its volume and velocity . |
| 10 | ‘ As soon as you get round the corner , put your foot down for a couple of blocks . |
| 11 | At the half-year , however , deficit down by a quarter from $31.9m to $23.7m reflecting sharp reduction in Q1 losses . |
| 12 | Instead he kicked his horse on into a canter behind the hounds . |
| 13 | A video image of Dale Kunzler , 10 , from Todmorden , West Yorkshire , is projected upside down on a screen behind him during a video workshop at the ‘ Let's Make A Film ’ Festival held at the National Museum of Photography , Film and Television in Bradford at the weekend . |
| 14 | 3 Put a large transparent plastic container ( e.g. a used ice-cream carton ) upside down on a corner of a garden-bed or lawn . |
| 15 | A TEENAGER yesterday claimed he was beaten with a horsewhip sometimes while dangling upside down from a rope by his foster father . |
| 16 | A TEENAGER yesterday claimed he was beaten with a horsewhip sometimes while dangling upside down from a rope by his foster father . |
| 17 | The bodies of the leaders were taken to Milan where they were hung upside down from a girder in front of a petrol station in Piazza Loreto . |
| 18 | In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light . |
| 19 | A witness in the Akers Way trial has told how he saw a car flip over and land upside down in a hedge in the crash in which five young people were killed . |
| 20 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 21 | Alsys will also take over the Ada/SoftBench offering along with a suite of Ada bindings to HP-UX , X Library , X Toolkit and Motif . |
| 22 | Erm , what happened was the cathedral council one light in at a cost of four hundred and fifty pounds but they could n't afford the second light , so we got some money from erm the residents who contributed some money , we got some money from the school and there was a shortfall of sixty six pounds thirty one pence for the total bill , so the chairman er . |
| 23 | He ran across the key , bandoleer slapping his chest , gun held at the port , and reached the beach in time to see Baccy ease the patrol boat in through a gap in the reef . |
| 24 | Cook breast side down for a quarter of the cooking time . |
| 25 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 26 | Mostyn reacted , and brought the sumpsucker with the shotgun down with a burst of fire . |
| 27 | Imprisonment , for example , causes physical discomfort , psycho-logical pain , indignity and general unhappiness along with a variety of other disadvantages ( such as impaired prospects for employment and social life ) . |
| 28 | Finally , on the front panel , there 's the master volume knob and the controls for the onboard Alesis reverb/delay unit — a sixteen-notch rotary knob and a ‘ return ’ control for setting the required level of effect , from the tiniest hint of echo through to a nightmare in a bathtub . |
| 29 | Do I send a sample chapter off to a number of publishers ? |
| 30 | Said Graham : ‘ He 'll get the weight off in a couple of weeks because he 's working hard in training and then he 'll be back in the side . ’ |