Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richmond was the first black man to find in sport a route out of the despair and misery which were integral parts of his enslavement . |
| 2 | For most of the women , paid work had been a route out of the family and domestic and financial dependence . |
| 3 | A land-use survey was made on a route out of the city centre — in this case Mansfield Road , and the land use and building use were noted on a rough map ( see fig 3 ) . |
| 4 | They decided to cut across the coastal plain and head for a wadi that would provide a route back to the top of the escarpment . |
| 5 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |
| 6 | The duty imposed by RSC Ord 22 , r7 and CCR Ord 11 , r7 not to disclose a payment in to the trial judge until all questions of liability and damages have been decided is extended to the Court of Appeal by Ord 59 , r12A . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll put a girdle round about the earth |
| 8 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 9 | When the water boils , he swishes a bit around in the pot to warm it . |
| 10 | Fish Sparks , who 's been a bit down in the mouth since we rumbled his story , thought it was terrifically funny to start calling the Indians things like Sitting Bull and Tonto , but of course they did n't understand and anyway the rest of us sort of froze him out . |
| 11 | Erm does n't do much to lift your spirits if you 're getting up feeling a bit down in the morning . |
| 12 | But Robinson said : ‘ Ian is a bit down after the tour and I think once he gets a couple of senior games under his belt things will work out . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah we thought it important to send to you because we are , you know , a bit out of the way that 's all and erm people tend to go zipping past and have to go up to the roundabout and come all the way back down again cos it 's quite a busy road this and |
| 14 | This is something a bit out of the ordinary . |
| 15 | They 're pricey , mind , but good if you want something a bit out of the ordinary . ’ |
| 16 | If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address . |
| 17 | It 's a bit out of the Town . |
| 18 | You just , you live quite a bit out of the shop . |
| 19 | Slice the top off and scoop a bit out from the middle . |
| 20 | ‘ I try to keep the grey cells working , ’ I shouted back , more to reassure him that I had n't done a runner out of the kitchen window . |
| 21 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 22 | ‘ This led to a tightening up of the law and Knowsley 's environmental health and trading standards officers will continue to monitor the sale of food in the borough to ensure that it is as safe as the public rightly expects it to be . ’ |
| 23 | GRIEVING father Daniel Meinertzhagen demanded a tightening up of the licensing laws after yesterday 's inquest on his daughter . |
| 24 | For , instead of being tantamount to the mysterious suggestion that actions are uncaused , the claim that they are autonomous can be interpreted as a summing up of the individualist view that they must be explained , at least in part , by appealing to the intentional properties of individuals . |
| 25 | ‘ If we do not send legislation down to the dioceses , it is almost analogous to a judge who fails to include a point of law in a summing up to the jury . ’ |
| 26 | End with a summing up by the Chair and a time of prayer . |
| 27 | The Collector watched with admiration as Lucy 's deft fingers dipped a cartridge up to the shoulder in the grease and then set it neatly in a row with the others she had made . |
| 28 | He checked the actions and pumped a cartridge back into the breach of each gun before slipping upward through the trees . |
| 29 | With as many flats as a Parisian tower block and the ‘ pits ’ affording no more than a shove out of the sand , it was 16 days before the old fort hove into view 338Km after Algiers had disappeared from the rear-view mirror . |
| 30 | I 'm probably best doing a blow up of the map they sent . |