Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talbot , accompanied by Denholm , climbed down a rope ladder to greet the owner . |
| 2 | For a daily paper ( given that the images can be transferred down a phone line ) I see it as a Godsend . |
| 3 | If you are laying new insulation , take the opportunity to put down a vapour barrier of heavy-duty polythene sheeting over the loft floor first , if the plasterboard has no foil face . |
| 4 | WIMBLEDON have turned down a £1.6million bid by Southampton for striker Dean Holdsworth . |
| 5 | His feet had slipped from the kicked steps and he was sliding down a water slope that ended , abruptly , at the chasm about twenty-five metres below . |
| 6 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 7 | You 've just forced yourself into a cab , which is going down a London street at eight o'clock at night . ’ |
| 8 | Walking one day down a London street , arms outstretched as he day-dreamt that he was Leander swimming the Hellespont , he was accused by a man whose coat he touched of being a pick-pocket . |
| 9 | Reda Adam , ten , and her father , a cycle repairman in Ismailia , also turned down a £25,000 reward from the owner , an Australian tourist . |
| 10 | Or a man with her husband 's build parading down a Paris runway in Calvin Klein 's latest skivvies . |
| 11 | I found my way down a communication trench . |
| 12 | She even turned down a government offer of extra clothing coupons on the grounds that hand-me-downs were quite good enough for her refugees . |
| 13 | A BOY aged THREE knocked down a poll tax collector and trapped a workman yesterday after commandeering a milk float . |
| 14 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |
| 15 | A pride of lions hunting down a prey animal , such as a zebra , is one of nature 's more awesome spectacles . |
| 16 | But she lapsed into unconsciousness after being dumped down a 15ft embankment on the M50 where she suffered a series of blows , one of which broke her jaw , Dr Peter Acland , a Home Office pathologist , told Shrewsbury Crown Court . |
| 17 | A court has heard how a father gunned down a drugs dealer who 'd been supplying his sons with cannabis . |
| 18 | A man who gunned down a drugs dealer who supplied his sons with cannibis , has been jailed for life . |
| 19 | Each document seeks to lay down a curriculum policy , define a subject area and stress the need for an education programme which is ‘ coherent and continuous ’ . |
| 20 | SCHOOLBOY Anthony Charlton told yesterday how he plunged head-first down a 100ft quarry — and escaped with a sprained ankle . |
| 21 | ( First Edition ) WARRINGTON have turned down a transfer request from Neil Harmon , their 21-year-old prop forward . |
| 22 | Teesside magistrates heard they put a terrier with an electronic collar down a badger hole . |
| 23 | I can put down a school teacher does that help ? |
| 24 | He spent time in Strawberry Studios in Stockport laying down a guitar part for Factory based Quando Quango , a surprising move on two accounts . |
| 25 | Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' . |
| 26 | The first three songs on the album are tuned down a half step . ’ |
| 27 | The moratorium on the British coal industry takes into account the fact that Father Christmas ca n't fit down a gas fire 's flue outlet . |
| 28 | Main Picture Centre : Materials are lowered down a ventilation shaft for Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Junction Canal . |
| 29 | There is some case for doing this , particularly now that Whitehall is laying down a core curriculum for all schools . |
| 30 | She said oh I 've got to write down a credit limit . |