Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rodriguez was still struggling and out of the corner of my eye I could see the patron watching us uneasily .
2 Since most older people who have a drink problem tend to be lonely , retired and out of the mainstream of social life , some form of social group support may be helpful .
3 So today , a modern hospital ward for the care of the elderly aims to treat and rehabilitate patients — to get them back on their feet if possible and out of the ward , encouraging them to live their lives as they want to .
4 Many are dispatched on missions by the lord of the Phoenix Throne and can be found leading armies in strange and out of the way parts of the world .
5 Usually career coercion will suffice to ensure that any troublesome thesis stays unpublished and out of the public eye .
6 Glenn Hoddle is fit and back in the team .
7 To straighten the data in figure 11.13 , for example , the curve has to be pulled down in the Y -direction and up in the X -direction ; linearity will therefore probably be improved by raising the Y variable to a power lower down on the ladder and/or by raising the X variable to a power higher up on the ladder .
8 Unloved and out in the cold
9 Since acquisition by the Atlantic Group , the Miaco operation has been streamlined and refined and up to the FlyPast visit had overhauled 25 Pratt & Whitney engines .
10 Because no Sunday School teacher is there to see that everyone gets a prize , that no one cheats or that no one is left lonely and out in the cold , there will be casualties .
11 Jack Nicholson copes well with the challenge of playing down a down and out with a drink problem as well as a guilt complex .
12 Stephen walked on alone and out into the quiet of Kildare Street .
13 The enclosure also houses a single 12″ speaker , plus the aforementioned footswitch , which neatly Velcros to the side to keep it safe and out of the way .
14 This is user definable and along with the module 's type determines which process model it will follow .
15 He noticed that Venus displayed phases like the Moon , that is , Venus varied from a thin crescent to full and back to a crescent again .
16 If a well-structured book is the answer then we have gone full-circle and back to the benefits of a systematic text-book .
17 I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control .
18 With Felbrigg left behind the route continues to Hanworth then over Thwaite Common and on to the village of Erpingham .
19 Homeless and down to a fiver .
20 Having declared London ‘ shabby and out of the way ’ , Hamnett has decamped to show in Paris , leaving a trail of controversy in her wake .
21 But gradually she drew him round and out , round and out of the mêlée .
22 nice and out of the way .
23 A women 's team was launched at her university and this season they seem destined to be the top student side in the UK as they are currently unbeaten and through to the semi-finals of the students ' cup competition .
24 ‘ Your old friend Newbegin wants you dead and out of the way . ’
25 It is quiet and out of the way of too much bustle or activity because the rest of the family tends to gather on the ground floor .
26 We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft .
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