Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] and [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tiny point of bright golden pus appears and spreads like some fierce eczema down and across the right-hand side of her face . |
| 2 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 3 | It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens |
| 4 | In view of the widespread and sometimes ill-founded criticism of the recent franchise round and despite the uniform excellence of the successful tenders , will my right hon. Friend nevertheless consider the possibility of providing a review system so as either to show up ways in which it could be improved in future or to demonstrate that an extremely good job has been done by the Independent Television Commission ? |
| 5 | A month ago he went into Edinburgh for a night out and in the small hours was stabbed to death . |
| 6 | He had the difficult task of taking the field around and beyond the covert and getting them to stand well back before he could attend to his hounds . |
| 7 | But shares clawed their way back and by the close the fall had been cut to 10.2 points at 2,289.2 . |