Example sentences of "[adv prt] under the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feathers moved about in the current of air that blew in under the door . |
| 2 | The door under the stairs was as he recalled it , low and cut on a slant to fit in under the balustrade . |
| 3 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 4 | But it 's a happy marriage , is n't it ? and does n't this fit in under the idea of sentimentality again . |
| 5 | Bollinger own just such a patch of phylloxera-free vines in Aÿ ; whereas its high walls might well repel a small army , it remains a mystery why the little bug has not simply walked in under the gate . |
| 6 | The whole dinghy was jammed and sucked in under the stem , then rolled over , held fast by her steel mast which would not snap . |
| 7 | Now , you 're booked in under the name you 're using now . |
| 8 | The Child 's Game is basically a free play situation where the child chooses any series of activities for 10–15 minutes during which the parent will join in under the child 's direction . |
| 9 | The howling wind blew the broken bonnet away and rain began to flood in under the dashboard . |
| 10 | And remember , if we need an urgent op I can fly a patient to Sanderstown in under the hour . |
| 11 | She makes the journey to Sanderstown in under the hour . ’ |
| 12 | We reached the gateway and turned in under the adobe arch with the name Hda LUCINDA plaster-embossed in large letters . |
| 13 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 14 | Luton 's Paul Telfer , impressive on his debut , again provided the assist , this time from a free-kick , and Booth , from wide of the far post , nodded a skilful header across goal and in under the crossbar . |
| 15 | Great consternation was felt in banking circles , who felt they could be implicated , and less draconian measures to deal with the matter were brought in under the CJA 1988 , which allows the waiving of civil liabilities if banks inform the police of suspicions of fraud or drug trafficking in good faith . |
| 16 | Jean Marc Lafond , younger brother of the French international , scored the first of two tries in the 53rd minute before Darren Grewcock stole in under the nose of Steve Bates to make it 31-8 . |
| 17 | Sorry for coming in under the wire at er nine fourteen according to this clock . |
| 18 | So I ducked in under the trap . |
| 19 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 20 | The action sledge , a wooden frame , is then pushed in under the action , lifting it to the right height under the strings . |
| 21 | We eased in under the city : Grand Central , where the train sighed , and the passengers sighed , one by one . |
| 22 | The directors themselves , however , had stepped in under the authority of a decision in Newhart Developments Ltd v Cooperative Commercial Bank Ltd ( 1978 ) QB 814 . |
| 23 | But experience shows that language — and , particularly , language adopted or concurred in under the pressure of a tight Parliamentary timetable — is not always a reliable vehicle for the complete or accurate translation of legislative intention ; and I have been persuaded , for the reasons so cogently deployed in the speech of my noble and learned friend , that the circumstances of this case demonstrate that there is both the room and the necessity for a limited relaxation of the previously well-settled rule which excludes reference to Parliamentary history as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 24 | The questions themselves can then be fitted in under the topic headings decided upon . |
| 25 | The bed , tucked in under the corner where the roof sloped down , looked small and safe . |
| 26 | Graf , unbeaten since the beginning of May , took her winning streak to 35 matches by posting a 4–6 6–1 6–0 victory over the 11th-seeded Swiss , who played an inspired first set before caving in under the German 's familiar pressure . |
| 27 | A bee came buzzing in under the roof . |
| 28 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 29 | Realising that this section of tunnel might cave in under the weight of the collapsing building overhead , Grant started forward . |
| 30 | Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls . |