Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams leaped for a header which dropped over Ian Walker and just under the bar — with the keeper finding he had taken one step too many off his line . |
| 2 | Though the journey from Godolphin 's house in Primrose Hill to the Tabula Rasa 's Tower was short , and Dowd got him up to Highgate on the dot of six , Oscar suggested they drive down through Crouch End then up through Muswell Hill and back to the Tower , so that they 'd arrive ten minutes late . |
| 3 | In two days at Snetterton , first in the company of Benetton 's Formula One driver Martin Brundle and then at the wheel of the Snetterton school 's racing cars , I found that the limits of my own prudence , dependability and , even , sanity were disturbingly slim . |
| 4 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 5 | You can choose to drive out on the Friday and back on the Sunday , so giving yourself eight days ' skiing rather than six if you fly . |
| 6 | It was an open window looking out onto the wind-rippled waters of the Tigris and across to the Al Jumhuriyah and Al Ahrar bridges and over to the tower blocks of the foreign-money hotels . |
| 7 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 8 | The generation of meaning unintended by the author , in the reading process , is dependent on a structure of intended meaning : the Hilary-Joy equivalence in Small World , for instance , is brought into play partly by the percipience of A. S. Byatt and partly by the fact that that novel is by intention full of doubles and pairs and symmetries and heavily connotative names . |
| 9 | The main street sweeps southward up the hill between the ‘ Black Horse ’ and St Andrews Church on the way to Gumley ; swinging westward it bumps over the bridge crossing the upper pound of the Grand Union Canal , which itself winds away westward and southward to Husbands Bosworth and out of the county . |
| 10 | ‘ We worked very closely with them on the hardware configuration , first in Oslo and then on the boat in Singapore , checking that our resources were capable of what we wanted to do . |
| 11 | Thunderbirds , the Next Generation is at the Oxford Playhouse until Saturday and back in the region in Swindon at the Wyvern Theatre from July the twenty eighth until August the first . |
| 12 | ‘ Your friend , she is not with you ? ’ he enquired , with a solicitous bob first at Dora and then towards the door . |
| 13 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 14 | This site is operated by British Telecom and not by the military as its location would indicate . |
| 15 | As the clocks chimed and struck all over the city he would stroll down the Broad , along St Giles and round by the Parks … |
| 16 | Then we shall head due south again on the same road , passing into the Ukraine and out of the hills . |
| 17 | Yet , one of the catchwords that has been widely heard in Washington and elsewhere during the run up to the war has been the need to create a democratic environment in the Middle East after the war is over . |
| 18 | The exhibition is in Münster until 31 May and subsequently at the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg ( 28 June to 9 August ) and Mannheim . |
| 19 | It 's a long walk to Meall Corranaich and just before the top , the ridge splits away to the west which causes some confusion in poor visibility . |
| 20 | The Nene rises one mile west of Badby and flows on through the County , passing Peterborough and on to the Wash , 110 miles away . |
| 21 | All over the south and south-west of England and up into the midlands and the borders of Wales we may encounter ancient hill forts on hill tops or upper slopes , still marked by the visible line of prehistoric ditches . |
| 22 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to arrange a debate before Christmas , or at least before the December Council of Ministers meeting on fishing , so that we may have our annual chance to discuss the state of the fishing industry in England and elsewhere in the kingdom ? |
| 23 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 24 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 25 | It is a fact that , due to Moorish occupation , Christian buildings exist mainly in the northern half of the country in a broad band stretching from the Pyrenees down the Mediterranean coast to Tarragona and across to the west coast at Santiago , but , because of the Moslem domination , the Christian opposition in Spain was warlike and strong and Romanesque architecture reflects this spirit . |
| 26 | Marketing manager David Stewart said : ‘ Finaghy is the link between our branches in Stranmillis and Andersonstown and out to the Lisburn area . |
| 27 | The hub of all this activity was found in and around the market place and the Guildhall and down towards the Cathedral . |
| 28 | Dent to Brigflatts and back by the Dales Way |
| 29 | Whatever the findings on relocation , there may well be an impact on the level of unleaded petrol sales in Scotland and thus in the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | Each year we review the cost of Friends subscriptions and take into account the level of admission charges at Historic Scotland properties , the costs charged by comparable organisations in Scotland and elsewhere in the United Kingdom and the service we provide to Friends . |