Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The backswing can be compared to chopping down a tree with and axe ; power and speed come from the distance the axe is swung back . |
| 2 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 3 | As Daleks and Mechonoids fight a mutual battle of annihilation , the humans escape down a rope to the jungle below , apparently losing Steven Taylor in the hasty retreat . |
| 4 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 5 | Walk down a row of houses in a pit village today , and ask where the people 's ancestors came from . |
| 6 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 7 | N. lapillus grows for the first three years of its life ( but see p. 307 ) , and then usually marks the onset of sexual maturity by thickening the shell lip and laying down a row of white dentiform tubercles-usually known as " teeth " " -along the inside edge ( Fig. 17 ) . |
| 8 | Cowell and Crothers ( 1970 ) and Crothers ( 1971 ) accepted the basic observation- namely that dog-whelks cease growth at maturity and ( usually ) lay down a row of " teeth " . |
| 9 | He found all second winter whelks to cease feeding on the Yorkshire coast and lay down a row of " teeth " within their shell . |
| 10 | Except in thin-shelled populations , adults usually lay down a row of teeth along the lip of the aperture . |
| 11 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 12 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 13 | My washing has to be hung out horizontally rather than vertically because given the chance he can bring down a row of wet towels in six seconds flat . |
| 14 | And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity . |
| 15 | However , the use of pig fat in the enfleurage process will be off-putting to the vegetarian who may have to forgo the pleasures of jasmine and tuberose or track down a supplier of the even more elusive vegetable oil absolutes . |
| 16 | As she pushed the emptied skip back towards the scutching room for the umpteenth time , her legs simply stopped working and she sagged against the basket , fighting down a wave of dizziness and nausea . |
| 17 | Fighting down a wave of combined anger and panic , she found herself gabbling furiously , ‘ I 'm sorry ! |
| 18 | There , down a mile of scree , were thousands of palm trees , and , I thought , a village . |
| 19 | Apart from the odd person coming in who might be dampening down a collar of their leisurewear , looking a touch harassed , you 'd never know we were in the eye of a storm . |
| 20 | Write down a prayer for any ‘ Brian Smarts ’ known to you . |
| 21 | I 'll ask Michael Colgan now to take us a bit further down a look at the costs . |
| 22 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 23 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 24 | The troops would n't leave the trenches , so the French generals laid down a barrage on them . |
| 25 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 26 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 27 | They will go down a storm with my business partners . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , the predominant trend trait is a taste for extrovert , over-the-top dressing , with glittery glam clothes going down a storm for evening , and hyper-smart executive-look suits being snapped up for daytime wear . |
| 29 | TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme . |
| 30 | ‘ By murdering President Rene Muawad , his assassins chose to strike down a man of dialogue and reconciliation , ’ the secretary-general , Ms Catherine Lalumiere , said . |