Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And from the middle of this year onwards , both painters had adopted and accentuated Cézanne 's device of lifting the tops of objects up towards the picture plane . |
| 2 | that 's disgraceful that yeah and so that was from erm Street down to the and down the back so it would n't take , did n't take him a couple of minutes down to the mission |
| 3 | The Dutch airline KLM is investigating why ‘ many hundreds ’ of birds out of a cargo of 15,000 , including flamingoes , were found dead on arrival from Dar es Salaam at Heathrow , en route to Miami . |
| 4 | He took the tin of sardines through to the lean-to , opened it and emptied the contents onto the cat 's dish . |
| 5 | But one happened to be free for a couple of hours along with the picture editor who cut Nicola 's last report . |
| 6 | Tuppe found a pair of knickers down behind the back seat . |
| 7 | I had met her a couple of times back in the world , but only at Dreamer functions . |
| 8 | When she returned to the kitchen , she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire . |
| 9 | Henry unscrewed the top of the brass cylinder and shook out a bundle of sticks on to the table . |
| 10 | He took Sir Bryan 's rejected set of clubs back to the caddie-master 's hut and then headed for the Tented Village . |
| 11 | He found the list of farmhouses along with the radio operator 's log in one of his file boxes . |
| 12 | He pulled open the rear door and tossed the package of books on to the back seat , together with his gear . |
| 13 | So she kept her eyes closed , humming a little tune to try and make Florence let her milk down faster and barely listening to the sound of voices out in the yard . |
| 14 | Then , unseen at first , a small but subsequently vociferous crowd of lads out on the piss gathers at the corner of the bar . |
| 15 | The Revenue Commissioners and senior officials of the Department of Finance also advised against the idea because of the difficulty in implementing the scheme and policing the flow of funds back into the country . |
| 16 | Transport of anions out of the cell on the uptake carrier was demonstrated directly using an anion-sensitive electrode just outside the cell . |
| 17 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 18 | They 've got a lot of money , a lot of savings on at the moment |
| 19 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 20 | ‘ At nights , ’ said the Canadian , ‘ it was so cold that you could n't sleep at all , and about dawn you 'd hear the shots as they knocked off that day 's quota of Frenchmen out in the yard . ’ |
| 21 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 22 | He lifted a couple of mugs down from the shelf . |
| 23 | A master of ceremonies is needed to dispatch successive pairs of defendants out of the room , in order to keep the game going continuously . |
| 24 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 25 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 26 | A close wet-shave is not really possible , say if he 's thousands of feet up in the air and he wants to stay sweet with fellow plane passengers . |
| 27 | Nevertheless it was Webb and Bath who made their mark first , with a neat series of passes over on the right . |
| 28 | Walking back through the jungle I thankfully did n't come across any trap-door spiders but as dusk fell I was entranced by a cluster of trees which were suddenly lit up like Christmas trees by the thousands of glow-worms out for a night of passion . |
| 29 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 30 | Gently he put the gun down on the table and carried the pile of plates over to the sink . |