Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 2 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 3 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 4 | Rolling over , he assumed a sitting position and used his heels to push himself up the slates on his backside until he was seated astride the apex of the roof . |
| 5 | She left him to pull herself up the bannisters to bed , thinking back to the inordinately exciting first summer when Comfort and Anthony had rented their house outside Oxford and she had fallen in love . |
| 6 | She could n't face speaking to him down the wires of a telephone again , not after yesterday , and , besides , he might have cancelled their arrangement and she had n't wanted that . |
| 7 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 8 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 9 | I miss my painting , and hope that by keeping still it will , like some small exotic animal , find its way back tome without my attempting to chase it down the byways of my exhausted creativity . |
| 10 | The most hair-raising operation at Honister was not digging the slate , but getting it down the fells to sheds where the material was riven and dressed for transportation by packhorse to ports and river barges . |
| 11 | She showed Léonie how to roll up the used towel in a paper bag , smuggle it down the backstairs into the kitchen , bury it in the red heart of the range . |
| 12 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |