Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 2 | Or on to the point of someone 's sword ! ’ |
| 3 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
| 4 | He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children . |
| 5 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 6 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 7 | MacDonald defines non-traditional students as those who are 21 years or over at the commencement of their degree course on the 1st of October . |
| 8 | The non-white population is young ; in 1985–7 , 35% were aged under 16 and 18% aged 45 or over ( compared with 20% under 16 and 36% 45 or over in the population as a whole ) ( OPCS , 1988 , p. 31 , Table 3 ) . |
| 9 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 10 | Does it really matter , they ask , whether they are switched on or off by the idea of selling goods in a shop ? |
| 11 | Or up over the top of that bit . |
| 12 | I invited Reinhard to join me in some parallel experiments in chicks ; to our delight , 2-Dgal , injected either just before or up to a couple of hours after training , blocked fucose incorporation into the chick brain glycoproteins and produced amnesia in animals tested twenty-four hours later . |
| 13 | Hiding in comers or out on the hills in all weathers … |
| 14 | I 'd assumed she was writing in secret , as I was — pursuing a universal dirty habit that demanded solitude and a quiet place — when instead she was watching TV or out at the pub with friends : being social . |
| 15 | The price for the shares must be paid out of distributable profits or out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purpose of the buy-back ( s160(1) ( a ) ) . |
| 16 | And , and not look extraordinary or out of the way at all , and I think all true clothes , I mean true sort of timeless costume , you can wear at anytime . |
| 17 | He can not speak in or out of the House on subjects outside his department . |
| 18 | Ruth had been to the shops or round at the flat of some girl child never previously mentioned . |
| 19 | The nearest approach , perhaps , is the long belt of deltas extending today , from the Ganges in eastern India , via the Brahmaputra , the Irrawaddy and the Sittang , to the rivers of the Gulf of Siam and on via the Mekong to the Sang-koi and Si-kiang rivers of southern China . |
| 20 | Narrowing my eyes against the Atlantic glitter I could see the line of a path that climbed from the bay and on over the headland to the west . |
| 21 | The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city . |
| 22 | Nicandra took the path leading away from pleasure-garden policies , through heavy laurels and on into a grove of hazels patched with sunlight . |
| 23 | He nattered his way from university , through Chicago jazz combos and on into the birth of punk rock as the UK Subs never knew it . |
| 24 | YOUNG(ISH) MALE ( 23 ) seeks people who are into Japan , Cure , Prince , Deacon Blue , PSB , etc- Help this young individual see the next sunset and on into the future until at least 24 , anyway . |
| 25 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 26 | ‘ As I 've said , he 's been working off and on on the house as a favour . |
| 27 | Again in the case of Trieste , Dell'Aqua describes how patients , painters , doctors , nurses and students built a blue horse — the Marco Cavallo — which led a joyful procession of about 6,000 patients through the town , and on to a celebration of the emptying of the first ward , held at a local primary school . |
| 28 | I try to sleep , but can not , and go for a walk along the shore and on to a ridge from where Sør-Fugløya is thrown into relief by the blinding sun . |
| 29 | The image in Figure 5.12 of an inlaid Islamic brass ewer is formed by X-rays passing through the ewer and on to a sheet of film beneath it . |
| 30 | Corbett muttered curses but followed Selkirk up the ladder and on to the deck of the ship . |