Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 61 | Eventually Finn escapes , meets a runaway nigger , and together they escape down the Mississippi in a raft . |
| 62 | Then , when she judged the moment right , Laura shut down the damper in the smokestack , sealed the air-vents , and the whole kiln began to throb and pant black smoke . |
| 63 | The clock struck one and I went down the lunch in Hall . |
| 64 | A century ago there were children working down the mines in Britain . |
| 65 | But for the children running up and down the aisles in church or the yobs in leather jackets barging the queue at petrol stations , the elderly are n't so much objects of deference as obstacles to be pushed peremptorily aside . |
| 66 | The expert clause in the parties ' contract will be the only document likely to have a decisive effect , and then only if it lays down the procedure in detail , which many do not do . |
| 67 | Gooch will insist that Stewart , who topped the Test batting averages , bats down the order in today 's Texaco Trophy international at Trent Bridge . |
| 68 | But the Sandinista also took the initiative by training brigadistas up and down the country in preventive techniques like simple listening skills , bereavement counselling , relaxation methods , even family and group therapy . |
| 69 | So long as there is uncertainty about the matter , that must have a bearing on whether enforcement proceedings are taken by the Attorney-General up and down the country in a necessarily very large number of cases . |
| 70 | I explained to the House in November that I do not consider that the public interest lies in my taking that very large number of proceedings up and down the country in those circumstances . |
| 71 | It 's antics like this which have become a major problem in towns and cities up and down the country in recent years , generating fear on estates like Blackbird Leys in Oxford . |
| 72 | The seminar was one of several held up and down the country in the run up to the introduction of Environmental Protection Act legislation on Wednesday . |
| 73 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 74 | Sister Robinson put down the phone in the office as Juliet and the junior nurse , Frankie Elmore , arrived to start their late shifts . |
| 75 | At first , Charles found only 150 clansmen , all of them Macdonalds , waiting to greet him but then the distant skirl of bagpipes was heard and the Camerons , 700 or 800 strong , came down the hillside in orderly columns , escorting the prisoners captured at High Bridge . |
| 76 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 77 | Marler collected his suitcase and executive case from his room and ran down the staircase in search of Leonora Buckmaster to pay his respects . |
| 78 | Auguste 's eyes misted at the sound and sight of the lovely Araminta , Multhrop 's eighteen-year-old daughter , rustling down the staircase in a delightful froufrou of petticoats , her large blue eyes fixed on her father , but well aware of every male in sight . |
| 79 | Melvyn Wallace , 39 , a disc-jockey , originally from Rochester , Kent , was said to be in tears when the Thai court handed down the sentences in a five-minute appearance . |
| 80 | Let's go ! ’ and Dave came down the tree in a way that made my eyes water . |
| 81 | A horse came down the ramp in one bound , as if on wings , hit the concrete in a shower of sparks . |
| 82 | I went down the Kentucky in the High Street the other day , I had just come out , I was just standing there , when these black kids come up and start jostling me and then they nicks my chicken and chips . |
| 83 | Not allowing himself to glance down the passage in the direction of Madeleine 's bedroom , Harry descended the big staircase and went out of the house . |
| 84 | Vandals tried to burn down the school in Milton Keynes at the weekend . |
| 85 | Lady Thatcher , an Oxford graduate , was originally proposed for an honorary degree in 1985 but members of the university 's ruling body the Congregation voted down the idea in protest at her Government 's handling of education . |
| 86 | Also , I employed my usual technique of talking a quick walk up and down the field in parallel lines and with my detector switched on . |
| 87 | Those gunners who had no riding place on the guns or limbers were running down the verges in an undisciplined retreat . |
| 88 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 89 | She recalled , with a lump in her throat , the slow tears gathering , glistening in the light of the lantern as they slid down the furrows in his cheeks . |
| 90 | At times I feel so tired that I throw down the pen in despair ; but it is soon taken up again , and , like a pygmy Antaeus , it seems to have imbibed fresh vigour from its prostration . |