Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 2 | Red card and back to the subs ' bench for Jim . |
| 3 | He kept rolling , still hanging on to his weapons , and fell over the front of the Jeep and on to the pavement outside . |
| 4 | Since the causal chain passes through perception and on to the rest of the nervous system , perhaps triggering action , it must become physical again . |
| 5 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 6 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 7 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 8 | This line can he traced , rather precisely , from New England , through south-west Ireland , via south Pembrokeshire and the Gower Peninsula , under the University College of Swansea , then south of the Kent coalfield to the Boulonnais and on as the Grande Faille din Midi far into the European continent . |
| 9 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 10 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |
| 11 | The first people in each team place the keys down their neck and out through the bottom of their trouser legs or slacks . |
| 12 | The oil is getting into the wheel bearings and forcing grease past the oil seal and on to the brake shoes . |
| 13 | A piece of smokeless fuel fell out of the grate and on to the hearth . |
| 14 | In this way , the compressions or sound waves pass through the throat and mouth and out through the lips , spreading in all directions . |
| 15 | Steadying himself , he made his way over the roof and on to the parapet that ran along the side of the building . |
| 16 | Back in her drab black dress , Ellie was escorted smartly out of the ready-made department and back into the elevator . |
| 17 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 18 | They are on the bonnets of the jeeps , some are clinging precariously onto the sides as both vehicles speed away through the farmyard and out into the road . |
| 19 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 20 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
| 21 | She struggled to free herself , and rolled out of the car and on to the ground . |
| 22 | She waited for him to invite her into the car and out for the day . |
| 23 | As you might expect , though , it is difficult to stop the loss of energy and plasma along the magnetic lines of force and out of the ends of these machines . |
| 24 | I would n't change a thing on this guitar ; the nut height and the overall action is fine and , most surprising of all , this is a factory setup , straight off the boat and out of the box . |
| 25 | Confusingly at first , the trail stretched in two directions , back towards the perimeter fence and in towards the driveway . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , speculation continues that the Greek collector is looking for more aircraft for his collection and is working hard to return one of his Shacks to airworthy condition and back to the UK ! |
| 27 | Down through the old meat-market streets , into the tunnel with its rows of lights like neon stitching and its shiny cream tiles , up into Venus , then round the western edge of the harbour and back over the bridge to C Street . |
| 28 | There did n't seem to be anything interesting there , but I remembered the lesson of the day before , when I had stopped to sniff the air and everything had seemed fine , then ten minutes later I was wrestling with a kamikaze rabbit , so I trotted down off the side of the dune and down to the line of debris thrown up by the sea . |
| 29 | In the second bay starting from the western end , northern side and up to the gangway , was H. Webb 's black gang , so called because everything they dealt with was black in colour . |
| 30 | I read oil engineering which was primarily on the production side and out of a course of thirteen , I was the only one who was interested in the chemical side of it — the refining side . |