Example sentences of "[prep] and [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well as you approach the site from D er from north on the A Nineteen , you can catch glimpses of and also of the houses to the south of Church Lane , |
| 2 | At the top of the backswing , note how the left shoulder has turned and is now in front of and slightly underneath the chin . |
| 3 | The leaves are turned , alternately , towards and away from the centre of the mosaic , as in the scrolls of mosaics B and C , North Hill . |
| 4 | Another part of Colette 's method of making round , making substantial , is her habit of moving backwards and forwards , towards and away from the object . |
| 5 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 6 | At that time , during and just after the war , Highgate was an area in which a number of scientific and academic people lived . |
| 7 | Though punctuated by frequent flash-backs to the period before , during and just after the war , temporal progression in the present is clearly marked by the development of two narrative lines which weave their ways in and out of the novel . |
| 8 | East London during and just after the war is lovingly portrayed , with an eye and ear for detail which strike a nostalgic chord . |
| 9 | Having mastered all aspects of the department 's work , Oldman rose rapidly through its senior ranks during and just after the war . |
| 10 | In the chemicals and electrical engineering industries multidivisional enterprises such as ICI and Associated Electrical Industries carried out large investment programmes — the chemicals industry stimulated by the removal of German competition during and shortly after the war combined with a world shortage of chemicals , and electrical engineering stimulated by the rapid growth of electricity generation under Citrine ( Shonfield , 1958 ) . |
| 11 | The ministry bought several major items of new equipment ‘ off the shelf ’ during and immediately after the Falklands war . |
| 12 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 13 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 14 | A far larger number of sets were in use than licence figures would suggest , but during and especially at the outset of the campaign for independence the number of newspaper readers exceeded that of radio listeners . |
| 15 | It is the failure to do so that often makes such programmes both unrealistic and ineffective to participants both during and certainly after the event . |
| 16 | On the standard model , water passes via a duct under and thence through the media . |
| 17 | In retrospect it is quite clear that , despite the various ( and for the most part ill-defined ) policy proclamations issued by the 26th July Movement both before and immediately after the revolution , Castro wanted his revolution to instigate radical social change in Cuba . |
| 18 | The years before and immediately after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 were unsettling for experimental painters . |
| 19 | The study was based on structured interviews with some 370 former employees of a privately owned steel company in Sheffield who were made redundant in and shortly after the summer of 1979 . |
| 20 | Although the SMPAs last for 3–4 hours and move parallel to and ahead of the front , a theoretical explanation for the size of SMPAs is still required . |
| 21 | This quarter of the town appears to have contained buildings of quality which ran right up to and even over the defences of the late second century . |
| 22 | Stretching up to and away from the patio was a vast lawn , smothered with spring flowers — yellow daffodils and a parade of brilliant hyacinths . |
| 23 | Prior to and immediately after the operation , the weapon would be holstered erm and secured by means of a strap across er the hammer of the weapon . |
| 24 | In the morning I went ashore with the captain in a bumboat , passing a variety of small craft that plied to and fro across the straits . |
| 25 | The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces . |
| 26 | Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook . |
| 27 | They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships . |
| 28 | Wallis never forgot how Minton , whilst painting this portrait , skipped to and fro across the floorboards at Shaftesbury Villas ‘ like some lean fencer with his long brush stabbing at the canvas ’ , all the while throwing out the liveliest sallies . |
| 29 | Prostates , bypasses , hip replacements and renal surgery swung to and fro across the table . |
| 30 | He found that he could n't remain seated while she was striding to and fro across the office . |