Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comes with one or more switches on the same ‘ plate ’ , operating different lights . |
| 2 | He soon became a familiar hazard with his dog Kim , ‘ the village terror ’ , and his car in which he would career at fully twenty miles an hour down the narrow lanes . |
| 3 | A steep scramble down an ivy-covered slope leads one into a place of great natural beauty alive with the earth spirit force . |
| 4 | Edwards , 29 , endured eight marathons in 11 days over Christmas , ran several without sleep and regarded a broken bone in his foot , sustained in a stumble down an Alpine pass , as an occupational hazard to be ignored . |
| 5 | That will bring the eventual budget down a fine tune particularly with regard to er recommendations of the housing committee with regard er to the erm which clearly there will be some people . |
| 6 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 7 | The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles . |
| 8 | Woolley reached up and pulled the switch on the air-raid warning . |
| 9 | It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III . |
| 10 | If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box . |
| 11 | After the shop , Mrs Hollidaye took Dot down a shady footpath , moist with ferns and ivy , heavy hedge-tops meeting overhead . |
| 12 | I knocked her weight down an eighth of an ounce in preparation for the next flight , but the next day the weather was too bad for flying , so I ‘ fattened ’ her up again . |
| 13 | In Carlyle Mansions itself , Hayward 's own rooms were at the front of the building and looked over the river and the gardens while Eliot satisfied himself with a study and bedroom down a dark passage at the back of the building . |
| 14 | Being fired by two British directors in two British plays did not put Dustin off the British . |
| 15 | In fantasy land if we ever have to replace our systems we can of course simple switch off the old one and switch on the new one . |
| 16 | Killion saw the SE5a topple and fall over , but he was too busy fighting off the circling scouts to see if Dangerfield crashed . |
| 17 | For other instant transformations you could jazz up an all-white kitchen say , by adding red and white tiles and red handles , or by just painting a stripe all along between drawers and cupboard doors . |
| 18 | There was a coconut shy , a candy floss stall , and one where you got a prize for fishing up a coloured celluloid duck out of a moat of dirty grey water . |
| 19 | The first goal was definitely the killer , because after that it felt like we were carrying a one-ton weight up a down escalator . |
| 20 | WASTE Management International , the waste disposal group recently floated in London , has returned first-quarter profits 52 p.c. higher at £27.3m on turnover up a third at £186m . |
| 21 | As well as working towards the award herself , Mrs Mulhern has been instrumental in a setting up a successful International Award Scheme at St Mary 's with an increasing number of pupils taking part in the bronze , silver and gold sections . |
| 22 | White Papers on the privatisation of British Coal and the setting up a national lottery are also expected . |
| 23 | The best kind of flat is one that is above ground floor level and has its own entrance , providing that you do not gain access to your entrance up an unlit staircase or a long , dark walkway . |
| 24 | The weavers ' yard close by has been a fine example of the early wool trade , with the workers ' cottages down one side and the spinning and weaving loft up a wooden stair on the other . |
| 25 | 5 From a crouched stance , the student snakes out the lower arm in a tiger claw towards the groin area , to grab and rip . |
| 26 | Tivoli Systems Inc , Austin , Texas , next week will wheel out a new developers toolkit , the first commercially available programmers ' kit for building system management applications compatible with the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Management Environment , it says . |
| 27 | The old Apache Group , now restyled the Mips ABI Group , has added a few members ( current count is 16 ) and is going to stage a rally later this month to wheel out the promised ABI . |
| 28 | Overheats and it would melt , so because of that they put a little protector thing on to cut out a thermal cut out to stop the current flowing |
| 29 | Ponies are , of course , considerably cheaper to keep and the hardier types that live out all year round cut out a huge amount of work , too . |
| 30 | she says the hum , and then she was telling us when she brought the tape back the other day one of her interviews was telling her she was interviewing this man s er out of , out of the blue take off all your clothes please . |