Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walk down a row of houses in a pit village today , and ask where the people 's ancestors came from . |
| 2 | Ask your child to set down a row of four figures . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | He found all second winter whelks to cease feeding on the Yorkshire coast and lay down a row of " teeth " within their shell . |
| 6 | Except in thin-shelled populations , adults usually lay down a row of teeth along the lip of the aperture . |
| 7 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fighting down a wave of combined anger and panic , she found herself gabbling furiously , ‘ I 'm sorry ! |
| 13 | There , down a mile of scree , were thousands of palm trees , and , I thought , a village . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | " 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 . " |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ By murdering President Rene Muawad , his assassins chose to strike down a man of dialogue and reconciliation , ’ the secretary-general , Ms Catherine Lalumiere , said . |
| 19 | Is this just the state having been convinced by the academics ' own rhetoric about themselves , or hoping that the academics will actually be prepared to keep their own house in order ( for instance , by closing down a course of their own volition ) ? |
| 20 | First decide on the video format , and then jot down a short-list of the features you consider to be really essential , bearing in mind the cost of the models which include these . |
| 21 | The getaway driver , in a blue Ford , laid down a burst of suppressing fire , forcing the bodyguards to dive for cover . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A blue and white mug , half filled with cold coffee , weighted down a stack of papers . |
| 24 | Then you laid down a bed of branches . |
| 25 | Some of the episodes and dialogue are intentionally comic — as when the son helps a friendly local chief to shake off some warriors from a neighbouring tribe by bringing down a swarm of bees on them . |
| 26 | When a series of such images , running vertically down a strip of film , is projected at 24 frames a second ( fps ) in the cinema , or 25 fps on ( British ) TV , an illusion of movement is created because of a retinal property known as ‘ persistence of vision ’ , which in normal life enables us to perceive the world as a continuous flow , not an infinite series of separate moments . |
| 27 | Now Jacqueline , trotting about the shop telling herself some endless and only vaguely comprehensible story , knocked down a pile of brightly coloured buckets . |
| 28 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 29 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 30 | Pull down a loop of yarn at the edge and knit 8 rows on the ribber only . |