Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 2 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 3 | From here it follows the route of the prehistoric Sewstern Lane and drops down to the Grantham Canal . |
| 4 | It huddles round a flint-towered church and sprawls down to the North Sea — and what a wallop the sea makes as it pounds at the shingle . " |
| 5 | I read once there 's over a hundred miles of rivers under the city , like the Fleet which rises in Hampstead and comes out into the Thames at Blackfriars , all underground . ’ |