Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 2 | Store in a cool , light place in trays , on ropes or down the legs of old stockings . |
| 3 | This record features lowdown bass that goes for the backs of your legs and up a bit . |
| 4 | They both got dressed , quickly and silently , and then tiptoed out of the bedroom and down the white painted wooden staircase . |
| 5 | He wheeled his horse , and roared his own knights round upon their bowmen ; and the loyal among the marksmen set up an answering howl , and fell out as best they could , leaping sidelong into the bushes and up the heathery slope , to stand clear of the slaughter and find a vantage-point again from which they could play their part . |
| 6 | Rustling in her stiff new overall — Mr Mulgrove 's administrative eye had rested in disappointment on the extra foot of Anna 's grey corduroy skirt that hung below it — Anna followed Tim out of the warehouse and down a grim cold staircase on to the shop floor . |
| 7 | After all , up the lads and down the hatch . |
| 8 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 9 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 10 | He seemed to sense her mood , drawing back a little as they went through the forward lock and up the cockpit steps . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 12 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 13 | It had been rather an expensive one as he had gone for a fleecy-lined designer number with flashes of blue , to match his eyes , on the shoulders and down the legs . |
| 14 | For some unknown reason prickles sprang up all over her shoulders and down the length of both arms . |
| 15 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 16 | Water comes through the roof seams through the windscreen frame and can even come around the rear vents and down the roof side rails to fall on the driver 's knee when braking . |
| 17 | We stayed first with Gary and Kaye ( Burns ) , who live near the top of Seatoun Heights with a stupendous view down the harbour and up the Hutt Valley . |
| 18 | Remarkably quickly , however , the last of the human tide ran from the house entrance and up the ramps of the rigs , which were now almost packed full . |
| 19 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 20 | The French Commando has been wounded in the thigh , the bullet passing in one side and out the other . |
| 21 | Rain firehosing in one side and out the other . |
| 22 | He deliberately pushed his chair so that it fell over , walked down the stage steps and up the gangway of the auditorium . |
| 23 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 24 | The Dawsons themselves had enthusiastically helped to heave it over a rut and up the slope to the garage . |
| 25 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 26 | Simply pass the end of the yarn through the threader and down the hollow tube , attach the weight , and away you go , in moments you have a length of cord ready to use however you wish . |
| 27 | Out into the spooky snicket and down a few yards towards the churchyard . |
| 28 | She made her way through the village and out the other side , then pulled over into a gateway by a field and cried her eyes out . |
| 29 | He wrote : ‘ It is like a vast supermarket in which absentmindedly , yet intent on what we are doing , we push our shopping trolleys up one aisle and down the other , while death and alienation have the run of the place . ’ |
| 30 | The 1964 committee devised a system of entrances and exits to the serving points , and people went up one aisle and down the next to avoid confusion . |