Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We took a two-hour tour of South London with Eva drinking Guinness and hanging out the window cheering as we passed down the Old Kent Road , stopping beside the famous site of Dr Lal 's surgery and the dance hall of love , where Mum met Dad and fell . |
| 2 | A lorry thundered down the Woolwich Road towards Greenwich , making conversation temporarily impossible . |
| 3 | Successive waves spread through the Canadian archipelago to northwest Greenland , moved down the Mackenzie River , and crossed eastward to Labrador and southern Greenland . |
| 4 | Louis moved down the Rhine by ship from Worms , Charles with his horsemen travelled overland across the Hunsrück ( " a difficult route " on which the benefits of hard training showed ) , to meet up at Koblenz on 18 March . |
| 5 | Like London in the nineteen-forties , Paris seemed to have assembled every uniform and race loyal to the Allied cause ; and what variety , what colour the Moroccans and the Senegalese , Annamites and Malgaches , presented as they mingled down the Champs Elysées with immaculate cavalry officers , Foreign Legionnaires , kilted Highlanders , pretty nursing sisters , and now a sprinkling of American flyers from the Lafayette Squadron ! |
| 6 | He wandered down the Rue du Rhône , admiring the window displays . |
| 7 | I wandered down the Rue de la Carbière then I heard the first soul-searing howl : the wolves were back in Paris , hunting for whatever they could find . |
| 8 | He retained both the Downing Street Policy Unit and the CPRS , regarding them as complementary . |
| 9 | It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 . |
| 10 | That is an easier position to implement than the one taken by the countries which drew up the Basle convention on transboundary movements of hazardous waste , agreed in 1989 and in force since May last year . |
| 11 | Bernadette Friend talks to Pearl Brown , the nurse member of the team which drew up the Tomlinson report |
| 12 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 13 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
| 14 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 15 | That report from Kim Barnes , and we invited both the Oxford Bench and the Magistrates Association to discuss the complaints from Thames Valley Police in more detail but they declined our offer . |
| 16 | We headed up the Ring Road towards Old Delhi , and as we drove the avenues began to fill with bicycle rickshaws , all heading in the same direction . |
| 17 | The reciprocal relationship between pamphlet and newspaper insertion was only one way in which reformers used both the London and provincial press . |
| 18 | Building on the core collection which once formed part of the outstanding collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence , Parker built up the Ashmolean prints and drawings collection into one of the world 's finest . |
| 19 | His columnist chums built up the Dillingers and Machine Gun Kellys of America , the small-time hoods , and the G-Men , with some difficulty , took them out . |
| 20 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 21 | So I phoned up the Stanstead P R O the next morning and said ‘ confirm that the Queen is coming to open the airport ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , we do n't know , we have n't a clue who 's coming to open the airport , yet . |
| 22 | And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday |
| 23 | He ceased to be secretary in 1876 , but remained a syndic and helped both the London Society for the Extension of University Education and the Oxford committee to begin extension work . |
| 24 | ‘ We drew out the Livesey file , this afternoon , ’ Bragg said in a neutral voice . |
| 25 | At 0911:25 Invicta 435 reported overhead the BN and was cleared to land ; it was , at this point approximately three miles south of the airfield and approximately one mile west of the extended runway centreline , some two miles further on Base air traffic asked " Are you sure you are over the BN ? " to which the Vanguard Captain replied " I think I 've got a spurious indication . |
| 26 | You mentioned there the Clachan of Dalvaine . |
| 27 | And then sailed from Montreal , I was going to go back my , it was my intention to go back to New York , but I changed my mind at Montreal and sailed down the St Lawrence from Montreal , back to Glasgow . |
| 28 | The town 's Labour MP , Mo Mowlam , and Langbaurgh councillors Brian Roberts and Len Douglass sailed down the Thames to Westminster Bridge accompanied by a flotilla of sailing dinghies . |
| 29 | We were leaving England and as the boat sailed down the Solent past the Needles everyone was mustered on deck to be informed that the King had died . |
| 30 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |