Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] north [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 2 | North of the Start and Dodman Point thrusts and south of the Rusey fault zone which cuts the Cornish Atlantic coast just north of Tintagel , is a complexly overthrust zone of Devonian rocks showing intense strike-slip cleavage . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's already one Banks Island just north of Australia , but Cook must have liked him to name another after him . ’ |
| 4 | In fact , after leaving Whangarei , the yacht turned south and made landfall under cover of darkness on 10 July somewhere north of Auckland where it was met by Mafart and Prieur . |
| 5 | Here 's not a day when folk forget and at the Baiting House pub just north of Bromyard , there 's not a pint pulled without passers by talking of Nicolaus Silver with his jockey ; now the Landlord . |
| 6 | Strangely , Benjamin did not wish to visit his uncle who was wintering at the Bishop of Ely 's inn just north of Holborn . |
| 7 | The gas station attendant was an Israeli Arab , a young man with light brown hair who assumed I was a tourist and wanted to know what I was doing in the cold far north of Israel in winter . |
| 8 | The prototype Apple personal computer was developed by two enthusiasts for their own computer club in a garage in a town just north of San Francisco in California in 1975 , and was sold originally in kit form . |
| 9 | Clouds still heaped in the west , but over the crossroads at Quatre Bras , and above a stream just north of Fleurus , the sky was clear as glass . |
| 10 | Leave the shelter taking a course slightly north of east . |
| 11 | One group of ships kept watch on Dunkirk and the Flemish ports ; a second , ready to protect the Thames estuary , lay in the Downs just north of Dover ; a third was at Spithead , covering Portsmouth and watching Le Havre ; a fourth was in the Mediterranean , off Toulon ; and the fifth , and most important , was Admiral Hawke 's squadron , whose close blockade of Brest , from his base at Plymouth , was to become a model for the future . |
| 12 | These reunite into a single large body of water just north of Altdorf , and from here the river takes on a different character . |
| 13 | We spent the night at a service station just north of Wolverhampton . |
| 14 | I catch a bit of radio while I 'm changing cassettes just north of Perth and hear something called I 'll Sleep When I 'm Dead by Bon Jovi which is n't a patch on Uncle Warren 's song of the same name and makes me more than reasonably annoyed . |
| 15 | The bus service began on July 2nd 1921 and the mineral sidings were constructed in an area just north of Cleveleys Park . |
| 16 | They also cross a railway junction which passes under a minor road just north of track ( H ) . |
| 17 | I remembered reading about the protests over Club Row just north of Spitalfields ' market , where a street market in animals had been held since Victorian times . |
| 18 | Members of the Thames Valley Underwater Search Unit retrieved the body of Christopher Snuggs just north of Culham lock . |
| 19 | On 27 April 1962 four together were found in fields just north of Pagham Harbour and one was seen there on the 29th . |
| 20 | The Serb frontline now all but encircles Jajce and runs east just north of Travnik and turns north not far from Vitez , which will be the base for the Cheshire Regiment battalion group . |
| 21 | put forward a scheme to lay a new spur from the Barrow Hill to Seymour line just north of Staveley Town . |
| 22 | Sharpe placed a filthy finger on the map just north of Charleroi . |
| 23 | Eddie Stratton was sitting on the only chair in a small third-floor room of a hotel just north of Russell Square . |
| 24 | There is the close country just north of Coldinghame Muir , at Pease Dean and Bilsdean , between Berwick and Dunbar . |
| 25 | The second application concerns the hills just north of Aberfeldy , where N.I . |
| 26 | A study by ornithologists from Heidelberg University , published in the journal Nature , finds that blackcaps ' migratory routes have changed dramatically in recent years , taking them 1,500 kilometres further north in winter . |
| 27 | Groups of Tibetan traders filed through the village on their way back north from India . |
| 28 | The mosquitoes which carry malaria breed far north into Europe , and although less virulent than some tropical species , they were still responsible for many deaths . |
| 29 | And if you go up from Bristol on from here you go up the motorway to Bristol and then you go along the M four to London well north of Bristol , up where the River Severn gets quite narrow and can be bridged is a city called Gloucester and Cheltenham is just inland from Gloucester . |
| 30 | He built a fortune in the construction industry and then moved to Highfields Stables in the village of Adstone just north of Banbury and took up training . |