Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She felt dreadfully guilty letting them down about the Rome and Athens trip , but even that they smoothed over , told her not to worry . |
| 32 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 33 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 34 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 35 | A strong south-westerly wind ruins the swells coming in off the Atlantic . |
| 36 | Dr Tariq , frail and looking as though the gentle zephyr that came in off the Tigris might flatten him , could muster a savage temper when attacked . |
| 37 | It was growing dark and a sharp wind was coming in off the Mediterranean , blowing up the dust around the house . |
| 38 | The Spartans offence then fumbled the ball and seconds later running back Eric Okatu went in for the Tornadoes ' second T.D . |
| 39 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 40 | ‘ That 's why I put in for the R.F.C. We 're literally the only sportsmen left . ’ |
| 41 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 42 | He was n't going in for the Eddie . |
| 43 | Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ? |
| 44 | While the British army was , the French hoped , hurrying north to cope with this initial attack , the same warships — here lay the originality of the plan — would sail north-about round Scotland and down through the North Sea to Ostend . |
| 45 | The secret of their success has been passed down through the Arkells generations . |
| 46 | Tweed 's finger traced a route through Liège to the east and then down through the Ardennes , a remote hilly district . |
| 47 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 48 | The top of the ‘ face ’ then runs along the Kuril Islands to Japan , staying always on the ocean side of these chains — down through the Marianas — Saipan , Guam , Palau — to a point just east of the Spice Islands , which played so large a part in the saga of Magellan and his attempted circumnavigation . |
| 49 | Van Gelder and I will take the Angelina down through the Kásos Strait . |
| 50 | Somewhere there was a great concourse of the high-minded who , in between the Sunday Times each week , spent their days pondering weighty ideas , discussing plays and foreign films . |
| 51 | Its distance is 130 light-years , so that Aldebaran is not a genuine member ; it merely happens to lie in between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 52 | I remember because in nineteen thirty eight , er we were scheduled to have an opening in about the September and we got a team coming down to play us at football and we were going to have a social evening , darts and that , at , in the evening and of course at that particular time , the war was a definite threat . |
| 53 | And if you 're coming in towards Oxford City Centre on the A40 , coming in towards the Headington roundabout , you 'll find at the moment that it 's er about a mile and a half to two miles of very slow moving traffic approaching the roundabout itself . |
| 54 | The play was necessarily a matinee , and as we went down past the Albert Hall a siren did go . |
| 55 | They followed the Thames as it curved down past the Savoy Palace , Durham and York House , past the high-pooped ships scarred from long voyages which were crowding in for repairs . |
| 56 | The lady smiled and sat down opposite the Wisharts , she carefully placed the wicker basket on the seat next to her , then folded her arms and composed herself in relaxation . |
| 57 | Looking down towards the Orne I could see a thick mist over the water and patches of mist hanging over the cornfields . |
| 58 | The river Trannon is a fast Welsh mountain stream , which flows down towards the Severn in Powys . |
| 59 | Yet the journey continues , down towards the Negev , a dry region of some 4,500 sq.miles , stretching south from Beersheba to the Sinai highlands . |
| 60 | They had parked by the stadium and walked down towards the Campo . |