Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 2 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 3 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 4 | And an hour down the golf range . |
| 5 | ‘ Greed , cynicism , the rotters and the agents have spoiled it , ’ McIlvanney reflects bitterly , ‘ the rotters ’ being the trade term for journalists trained to sniff out sensation or scandal , or failing that , to drop a cheque down a hole and see who bites . |
| 6 | That narrows the field down a bit , if it 's correct . |
| 7 | It entails beating up some chicken eggs , putting them into a syringe and squirting the uncooked scramble down the bird 's throat . |
| 8 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 9 | What we are talking about is moving the responsibility down a stage so that there is a system in place that recognises individual club players and helps them when they move up . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's stroll a bit down the Boulevard de Waterloo , ’ Marler suggested . |
| 11 | He flicked a switch on a console and said . |
| 12 | Although Decimax 's current ad shows these switches to be of the keypad variety , our unit used membrane types ; each push of the switch on the plus or minus end gives a corresponding level change ( indicated by the LEDs ) on that particular frequency . |
| 13 | Whitlock activated the switch on the dashboard and the glass slid into place , sealing off the back and front seats of the car . |
| 14 | Flicking the switch on the TV is one thing , but such reactions are more serious when it comes to real life situations . |
| 15 | She stayed near him till he slept , went out into the dark hall , switched on the light with pride and with the knowledge of what that little act meant , what it had cost , would cost ; she pressed a tiny switch on the wall , and electrons obediently flowed through cables , because the woman in the Electricity had so ordered it |
| 16 | He snapped a switch on the wall socket . |
| 17 | The figure pressed a switch on the wall and the bars of the cage disappeared . |
| 18 | He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug . |
| 19 | She heard the rattle of the curtain rings as the blackouts were pulled across , and then the click of the switch on the standard lamp as Bella put on the light . |
| 20 | Well you just switch it it 's a switch on the top . |
| 21 | Computers , Fletcher maintains , always have their on-off switch on the back . |
| 22 | Well usually erm modern telephones have got a switch on the back and you can switch them to pulse or tone |
| 23 | There could be a switch on the bench . |
| 24 | For most children ‘ light ’ in this task means ‘ light bulb ’ as in ‘ Switch on the light ’ . |
| 25 | Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set . |
| 26 | Better , fit a true mains switch ( e.g. a cord switch on the primary side of the transformer ) and hope that people will use it instead of the on-off switch on the radio . |
| 27 | Tucked under the grill is the hotplate light , operated by a switch on the grill canopy , which ensures that your grill and hotplate are always clearly illuminated . |
| 28 | Press the switch on the fascia and it lights up a new world of controlled cooking . |
| 29 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 30 | After scouring through several reports , he ran his forefinger down a column of figures and discovered the facts behind the old woman 's plight : commodity prices are plunging . |