Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] under the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought of the dream she had sometimes in which she was leaning over a bridge and watching herself drown , watching herself slip down under the clear water and not giving a damn . |
| 2 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 3 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 4 | The final major institution was to be the Court of Justice , not to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights set up under the 1950 Convention and based in Strasbourg along with the Council of Europe . |
| 5 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 6 | All recent committees of inquiry , and some in the past , have been set up specifically for the task in hand , but between 1944 and 1967 many of the inquiries were undertaken by the Central Advisory Councils for Education ( CACE ) for England and for Wales , bodies set up under the 1944 Education Act to advise ministers on important educational issues . |
| 7 | The open field lines convect polewards under the joint action of magnetic ‘ tension ’ and the solar wind flow . |
| 8 | He scooped mud on to his forehead and cheeks and kept close in under the dripping leaf canopy cloaking the bank . |
| 9 | Abscesses form classically under the lower jaw but can occur in other sites . |