Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
2 | The arm uncurled onto Richard 's chest and moved there over the nipples and down onto the tensing stomach . |
3 | If nothing is readily available you find yourself trying to thaw out the cheesecake from the bottom of the freezer ( nobody will miss it , will they ? ) , or working out how long it will take you to get to the shops and back with a bag-full of goodies . |
4 | One takes me along St Mary 's Villas and Barrowclough Road , past the old municipal baths and the new DIY and wholesale paint centre ; while the other means cutting down Lennox Gardens , taking that street whose name I always forget into Rumsey Road , then past the row of shops and back into the High Street . |
5 | The girl slipped away , not to the bushes but out through the curled iron gates to the earth lane that bordered the river . |
6 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
7 | More probable is a trade sale to existing mining companies or back to the generating companies , which is quite a common practice in the rest of the world . |
8 | Whereas fairly large areas in the Yorkshire Dales and up to the Scottish Borders were not heavily forested , the Teesdale region had this peculiar sugar limestone , creating a very thin , calcium-rich soil which never produced dense grass cover . |
9 | She must get him on to his feet and down from the high moor before the impending storm . |
10 | They then fought their way past the Dark Elf patrols and back to the Inner Sea . |
11 | Through the quarry and the conifer woods and out into the main road where the yellow lights make you look like something in a Hammer horror . |
12 | Such grants are based on the Statute of Monopolies 1623 , which , while in general prohibiting the grant of monopolies , made an exception in favour of patents ‘ for the term of fourteen years or under for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within the realm to the true and first inventor or inventors of such manufactures , which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants shall not use ’ . |
13 | The top of the anticline has been worn away , down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others . |
14 | The filter bed arrangement for reverse-flow is exactly the same as the downflow method , but the direction of water is reversed and pumped down the uplifts and up through the various media . |
15 | The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed . |
16 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
17 | Even in the Regal Arms they were liable to think it unusual if anybody carried a body or a badly wounded man down the stairs and out through the front door . |
18 | Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door . |
19 | With her mind reeling , Merrill walked ahead of him down the stairs and out into the windy street . |
20 | He hunched his shoulders and stamped his way defiantly down the rest of the stairs and out into the cobbled street . |
21 | But , turning obediently , she led the way down the stairs and out into the bright heat of the day . |
22 | I let myself into our corridor , soundlessly , and crept down the back stairs and out of the back door without hearing or seeing any member of the Home staff . |
23 | ‘ They 'll come down the servants ’ stairs and out at the back door . |
24 | It is a ten-minute ride to the road , first on a narrow path along the side of a field of parched maize and groundnuts , then down across the stream , up the smooth rounded granite and along the top , passing by my neighbour 's home , down round her fields under the trees and up to the tarred road . |
25 | Thread cord up through rings and corresponding screw-eyes and out to the operational side . |
26 | He glanced round the corner of the altar and watched a German officer who had been hit in the side of the head slump through the curtains and out of a wooden box on to the stone floor . |
27 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
28 | Then it 's group shots and off to a hired room for buffet lunch , more lager , TV interviews and an assessment of the day 's events . |
29 | The Sergeant came barging into the Nissen hut , bawling out , ‘ Right , you bloody lot , if you have any homes to go to , get out of those pits and down to the orderly room , sharpish , or you wo n't get a bloody pass . ’ |
30 | But they turn out to be of Ancient History , so the flies blunder moodily against the parlour window beyond which the June sun ripens tempting dinners at roadsides and down by the strong-smelling beach ; day after day after day . |