Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dispute marked the latest stage in the political turmoil which had begun on Oct. 9 with Mamaloni 's resignation on as leader of the People 's Alliance Party ( PAP ) , shortly before he was due to face a challenge to his leadership at the ruling party 's annual convention . |
| 2 | but er Freda would have a blanket on in winter with that , it was n't necessary you know |
| 3 | Because of the limited visibility at the top of the hill a new access directly from Drum Brae Park on to Drum Brae could not be recommended . |
| 4 | We were not to see the famous ‘ stoop ’ dive on to prey after all . |
| 5 | It relies on the preferential absorption on to clay minerals of an ultra-violet sensitive dye . |
| 6 | So you put another story on at Road ? |
| 7 | We have agreed to take part along with member organisations and have a half hour slot for a ‘ Come and Try It ’ ( volunteer ‘ plants ’ welcome ) and short demonstration . |
| 8 | I agreed , and next day they sent a photographer along to West London Stadium and I was pictured wearing my ‘ Pure Talent ’ tee-shirt with ‘ No Additives ’ inscribed on the back . |
| 9 | Use this formula , and if necessary jot down on paper how you 'll use the three stages and practise it aloud , so that you get comfortable with it . |
| 10 | And then of course in between milking we did the general work , whatever was going on . |
| 11 | This entailed a dual arrangement : an ordained regular abbot ( i.e. a monk , one who followed a regula , or rule ) ran the community 's liturgical work and day-to-day upkeep from the inside , while , from the outside , a lay aristocrat assumed control of the community 's landed endowment along with responsibility both for the military service owed to the king from the men beneficed on the monastery 's lands , and often for hospitality at the monastery for the king and his entourage . |
| 12 | An experienced headhunter could narrow the field down to short-list stage much more quickly and cost-effectively , Tagg argued . |
| 13 | Thoo 'd better mek a start on yon ten acre field down by t'river-side . |
| 14 | Brought that big present in at Christmas . |
| 15 | To run cable down to light switches or to wall lights , it will usually be necessary to ‘ chase ’ slots in solid walls , though if you are rewiring a house which was originally wired in metal conduit , you may be able to use the existing conduit buried in the plaster leading to light switches to feed the cable down . |
| 16 | She had abandoned all hope of getting her contract down in black and white ! |
| 17 | Traditionally the seven awards have always been deemed to have been of equal value , but the interesting possibilities suggested by all of these short listed designs is the building in of individuality to awards which will closely resemble each other without being formally identical . |
| 18 | They came into existence along with democracy — with the development of parliaments and elections — after the American and French Revolutions , and were at first ‘ parties of notables ’ , that is to say , relatively small electoral committees composed of individuals who had prestige and wealth in their own constituency or electoral district . |
| 19 | Young and old let their hair down at Hogmanay |
| 20 | He would give them the benefit of his theories that letting their hair down at pop concerts and football matches would be a therapeutic and profitable use of their leisure time . |
| 21 | He was dressed and had smarmed his hair down with water so generously that the droplets ran down his forehead and soaked into his shirt . |
| 22 | To Gedge , the council was a game he took part in during lunch hour but Solowka found him quite influential . |
| 23 | Dylan Thomas immortalised such machinery in Draper Mog Edwards ' soliloquy in Under Milk Wood : I have come to take you away to my emporium on the hill , where the change hums on wires . |
| 24 | It 's going to bucket down with rain later . ’ |
| 25 | So the Wife of Bath and the Prioress together challenge the social norms of women 's roles ; the shifting surfaces of the Pardoner 's blatant hypocrisy tease the reader into an uncomfortable awareness of the unfathomable nature of human motivation for the onlooker ; the Nun 's priest 's juxtaposition of intellectual solemnity with quick-witted pragmatism and his stress on the saving grace of social charity cuts self-importance down to size . |
| 26 | Thus the Bourdieuan ‘ habitus ’ also undergoes a process of differentiation along with modernization . |
| 27 | McBride can put his luck down to criticism from scribes down south earlier in the season , rather than bad selection policy . |
| 28 | The exceptions to this rule are that the plaintiff can disclose the fact that there has been a payment in into court , and how much it is , on the hearing of an application for an interim payment ( Fryer v London Transport Executive ( 1982 ) The Times , 14 December ( see Kemp & Kemp , vol 1 , para 14 – 066 for discussion of this case ) . |
| 29 | If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs . |
| 30 | He began to flog Luke unmercifully , bringing the lash down across back , buttocks and legs again and again . |