Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout .
2 But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings .
3 Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers .
4 ( WES ) Almost all the club 's riders have refused to agree to new pay scales laid down by the sport 's governing body .
5 The DHAC and NILP supporters sought to get back into the chamber ; finding the doors locked , they got in through the mayor 's parlour and were joined in the gallery by Alderman Hegarty and Councillor Friel .
6 Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side .
7 The mass of promenaders bulged along in the committee 's wake , creating some difficulty as they turned into the narrow High Street and into Albion Street .
8 The boat house resembled a small chapel built into the sloping land that led down to the water 's edge , except that it was windowless and the bell in the tower no longer rang .
9 Beyond it fell a flight of stone steps which led down to the bank 's vault .
10 At the back of the hall a flight of stairs led down to the servants ' kitchen .
11 JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome .
12 Then the almond eyes gazed fiercely over the child 's head towards Nana .
13 Mr Hamilton-Renwick soon moved on to the Dobermann 's smaller relative , the Miniature Pinscher .
14 The children moved slowly towards the aunt 's seat .
15 Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not .
16 He paused for a while to compose himself then staggered down to the porter 's lodge .
17 Enveloped by a cloud of gases with little or no oxygen , the sun 's ultraviolet rays scorched down onto the earth 's volatile surface .
18 He affixed a small jewellers ' eyeglass to his eye , and peered in at the device 's workings more closely .
19 On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas .
20 ICL Plc weighed in with the TeamServer F5 , boasting a dual-bus architecture , specifically designed to loose the full processor capacity and high-speed caching architecture .
21 It was Pentium day last week , and ICL Plc weighed in with the TeamServer F5 , boasting a dual-bus architecture , specifically designed to loose the full processor capacity and high-speed caching architecture .
22 The security guard pushed Jack out of the way and bent down to the driver 's window as the Glory slowed down .
23 For GMSA we used a set of double stranded oligonucleotides ( see Fig. 4A ) containing the canonical octamer motif found in e.g. the adenovirus 4 origin of replication , the human histone H2B promoter , and the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer ( oligonucleotides Ad4 and D ) , the degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif from the Ad2 origin of replication ( oligonucleotide Ad2 ) , the TAATGARAT motif from the HSV immediate early gene ICP4 ( oligonucleotides ICP4 and B ) , the degenerate octamer-TAATGATAT motif found upstream of the HSV ICP0 gene ( oligonucleotide C ) and a motif differing by a change from T to G converting the HSV ICP0 site to a perfect TAATGARAT motif ( oligonucleotide A ) .
24 He moved easily amongst the TOP 's .
25 Sun Life appointed a relocation officer at executive level who reported directly to the company 's general manager .
26 By way of diversion we stopped off at the army 's counter-intelligence headquarters .
27 There was a wide space beside the staircase , the stairs rose up to the boys ' bedroom wall , then turned left to join the landing .
28 Tolby drew up outside a newsagent 's .
29 But , finding her exclamation had produced no reaction in the only other passenger not comfortably below , save in the stem for a scatter of peasants returning with emptied baskets from Naples , she moved nearer along the ship 's greasy rail .
30 The youngest visitor , aged about six and dressed ready for bed in pyjamas , helped his father to decipher the jottings in his field notebook and then reported earnestly on the day 's tally .
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