Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He told me that out of every 100 contacts a salesman found one prospect , and out of every ten prospects he should , on average , secure one sale .
2 She stamped past me and on down the corridor .
3 When Lili came to stay the emphasis shifted slightly , away from me and on to the strange woman .
4 The music came clearly out of the room , and flowed round me and out through the colonnade into the light .
5 Tremayne glanced briefly across at me and back to the road .
6 In fact it seemed to siphon autonomy and information away from me and back to the people at the top .
7 Boys flowed past them and on into the next gallery .
8 She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death .
9 I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass .
10 I went after them and in through the huge door .
11 But even here the story does not end , for after fifteen or twenty years , the urge to breed and migrate once again comes upon them and down to the river mouths they proceed , slithering over wet meadows by night until they reach the greater river , lying up by day in damp holes , enough water remaining in their gills to enable them to breath .
12 Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw .
13 I turned the switch and I regret to inform you that out of the loudspeaker came a lot of old Irishmen singing maudlin songs .
14 Keep visualizing the circle of air as it moves through you and round to the diaphragm .
15 Just as characters in the plays switch from Thou to You and back in a way that seems to us to have no evident rationale , so in the Sonnets Shakespeare uses both forms indifferently , and indeed switches from one to the other within one poem ( Sonnet 24 ) .
16 The guard was looking past him and up towards the heart of the factory complex .
17 Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest .
18 There was only one on duty today and I waited till he turned and moved to the back of the room then I walked quietly past him and out into the square .
19 ‘ I 'm not interested , ’ she said , and walked past him and out into the sunshine .
20 Then did Creggan turn from the sight of the sky to which Slorne had directed him and back to the reality of the final taking of Minch of Callanish .
21 ‘ He did n't have to do that , ’ I said , squeezing past her and on to the next flight of stairs to my flat .
22 He pushed roughly past her and out of the room .
23 People were clapping as he stumbled between the rows of seats with her and out into the garden , where she reached out one hand to clutch at the trunk of a flowering cherry , then doubled up over his arm to vomit into a tidy bed of daffodils .
24 Nothing had struck him as out of the ordinary apart of course from his wife 's news about the Rector , communicated to him around tea-time .
25 Creggan came out of his concrete shelter into his cage , the branch thrust right over it and on to the path in front , and smaller branches from it filling half his cage with confusion .
26 This pleasant hotel is built on a slight rise , and has excellent views of the mountains behind it and down to the village in front .
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