Example sentences of "[verb] under the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The street is too narrow to take in the full glory of the design by Fischer von Erlach but the two doorways immediately make an impact , with their wonderful straining Hercules bent under the weight of the door entablature . |
| 2 | ( Guddle ( Scots ) : to fish with the hands by groping under the stones or banks of a stream . |
| 3 | When bottoms itch , fingers scratch , and the microscopic eggs get scraped up and caught under the nails . |
| 4 | In the stampede to get out of the building she had been caught under the flow of people , pushed to the ground and trapped , with a broken ankle , under heaps of clothes and stands . |
| 5 | He was caught under the lorry wheels on a building site at Holliers Farm near Middle Barton in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | From this it follows that far more transactions could well be caught under the section than at first appears . |
| 7 | All 21 NESB branches have re-opened under the name of Citizens Bank . |
| 8 | Each recipient doing business in or organised under the laws of the United States of America or in areas subject to its jurisdiction represents that it is an institutional investor , expressing an interest for its own account and agrees not to purchase , distribute or sell any of the Company 's securities or any interest therein except in compliance with the above laws . ] |
| 9 | These are informal , shopfloor cultures , industrial ‘ games ’ organised under the pressures of increased productivity . |
| 10 | It reads : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country neither the WRU , nor any of its member clubs , will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SARB . |
| 11 | Last night 's resolution from the WRU committee read : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country , neither the WRU nor any of its member clubs will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SA Rugby Board . |
| 12 | You 'll have to pass under the gate-towers to get down to the west . |
| 13 | The road out of the village , southwards , shrinks in a quite unforeseeable manner in order to pass under the porch of a small chapel ; this could be distracting , and were something coming the other way lead perhaps to a rare collision on what is no doubt consecrated ground . |
| 14 | For the first two nights Martha peered under the bed for duppies and enjoyed having no one to forbid her ; by the third evening she forgot . |
| 15 | Patrick peered under the dish covers . |
| 16 | Yanto crouched down and peered under the wagon . |
| 17 | You fumble under the gown |
| 18 | His own rooms were squeezed under the roof . |
| 19 | ‘ Old Jackdaw lies under the sod , ’ ’ he read out . |
| 20 | Models whose base lies under the rest of the template are hit by flying Hot Pot gloop on the D6 roll of a 4 , 5 or 6 . |
| 21 | Of late years the Westminster scholars amused themselves with tearing it to pieces ; and one in particular , who bore a principal character in the police of India , lies under the imputation of having contributed in an especial manner to that havoc . |
| 22 | The old edge of Suffolk lies under the sea ; |
| 23 | When the land lies under the grip of the ice an ancient primaeval force stirs in the heart of the nation . |
| 24 | And furthermore — ’ he brushed aside the other 's indignant protests — ‘ the body of a French officer lies under the tricolour , not these flea-bitten rags . |
| 25 | Many believe that it lies under the church of San Vincenzo in Prato , even though there is no historical record of the church before the year 806 . |
| 26 | Although the pond now lies under the garden and the road , it is still possible to trace the mill 's tail race as it flows to meet the stream in the gardens of Westbury Court . |
| 27 | Currently , to the east of Lough Neagh , near Crumlin , some 420 million tonnes of recoverable lignite has been reported to exist , but two thirds of this lies under the lough itself . |
| 28 | Lower Lea or Swalecliffe lies under the shadow of the Iron Age hill fort on Madmarston Hill and the one must have succeeded the other . |
| 29 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour for giving way so that I can express the East Lothian interest in Monktonhall because Musselburgh bay lies under the east Lothian coast . |
| 30 | CI lies under the application itself , but above the network protocol . |