Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 2 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 3 | It is important to know what the acceleration of a body down a surface would be without friction as a start to explaining its actual acceleration . |
| 4 | In the bottom of the pit there is a corresponding calm — it is the still centre of the spiral — and an odd sense of hollowness , as if you were about to drop into the deeps of the earth 's psyche ( and of your own ) like a stone down a mineshaft . |
| 5 | When saying ‘ no ’ feels like a trip down a dead-end road to treason , what else is there to say but ‘ yes ’ ? |
| 6 | Their roads make the M25 look like a drive down a quite lane . |
| 7 | Offered a free bed and nosebag , Tony is there like a rat up a drainpipe . |
| 8 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 9 | ‘ I was about to go for a turn around the village , ’ said Hope , switching the subject , as he thought , adroitly . |
| 10 | ‘ If I wanted to wade around in shit I 'd go for a walk down a sewer . |
| 11 | For the trolley orderlies they are like a quick dash with a rickshaw down a Singapore street . |
| 12 | Two days ago my neighbour told me she saw him with a crowd down an entry . |
| 13 | All that is missing from its picturesque streets — geraniums spill from every aperture , a stream gushes from a well down an unpaved track , cattle low in shelters below the villagers ' cottages — is a cast of yokels and buxom wenches bursting into an operatic aria . |
| 14 | Edwards , 29 , endured eight marathons in 11 days over Christmas , ran several without sleep and regarded a broken bone in his foot , sustained in a stumble down an Alpine pass , as an occupational hazard to be ignored . |
| 15 | He had finally chosen the version in which he spoke in a falsetto down a cardboard tube , with his nostrils clamped together . |
| 16 | As well as working towards the award herself , Mrs Mulhern has been instrumental in a setting up a successful International Award Scheme at St Mary 's with an increasing number of pupils taking part in the bronze , silver and gold sections . |
| 17 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 18 | No , I shall have to turn on a dress out the club book where it says about |
| 19 | He had started the Venturers ' Society in 1945 , when he was asked by some boys to take them on a visit down a coal mine , and on Mr. Horn 's retirement in 1959 had taken over the Railway Society too . |
| 20 | They went across a lawn down an avenue of mulberry trees , past a thickly planted orange grove . |
| 21 | The main route is a very high level long ridge walk to the summit of Fairfield — with brilliant views over Ullswater — followed by a descent down a short , steep , twisting little valley called Dovedale . |
| 22 | The entrance , attained by a scramble over a boulder , immediately opens into a straight passage with a high roof providing very easy walking for 250 yards ; then the roof level drops and further progress is possible only by crawling . |
| 23 | He met his own fate when the wizard Thomas of Ercildoune instructed Soulis 's enemies how to capture him and boil him to death in a cauldron on the Nine Stane Rig , a Bronze Age stone circle which can be reached by a scramble up the hillside above the modern B6399 between Newcastleton and Hawick . |
| 24 | Tucked under the grill is the hotplate light , operated by a switch on the grill canopy , which ensures that your grill and hotplate are always clearly illuminated . |