Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 32 | Thankfully for the Hibs manager , Reid 's ankle is not broken as was first feared but he is doubtful for Saturday 's match against Airdrie which could result in a recall for John Burridge . |
| 33 | The general rule is that problems which can not be solved at lower levels are referred upward through the organisation structure until the problem reaches an official with enough authority and power to solve the problem . |
| 34 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 35 | Gradually her technique improved , and Water Gypsy glided on through a country solitude of farms and fields . |
| 36 | It bucked wildly in the night sky , as if deciding whether or not Richard Branson had been lucky enough already , then righted itself and plied on through the night sky , swift and inviolate . |
| 37 | Creggan moved on through the night wind . |
| 38 | Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal . |
| 39 | She could hear the rising engine-note of the Corporation buses as they pulled away from the stop at the corner , coming from nowhere either of them had ever heard of , going on through the gathering winter dusk to destinations equally obscure . |
| 40 | Apart from a ten year break to raise a family and one other short break , Jean has also worked continuously , mostly as a Spool Setter and then as a Colour Counter , calculating the percentage and number of colours used in each new design . |
| 41 | Mostly about the Groucho Club . |
| 42 | Snow piled against it , threatening to destroy it , but this helped to protect it eventually as the snow wall hardened and compacted . |
| 43 | In the end , what matters most about the Clinton package is whether it convinces most people that a bit of pain is worthwhile , that there 's a future to aspire to . |
| 44 | I think what attracted me most about the country round was its Englishness , meadows deep in grass and wild flowers , and willows wherever there was water . |
| 45 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |
| 46 | Giant Tortoise … a visit to the beautiful island of La Digue can be booked locally as a day excursion by ferry from Praslin … |
| 47 | The 14 were the financiers of the wildly popular numbers racket known locally as the animal game , the jogo do bicho . |
| 48 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Sutherland had bought the property , known locally as the White House , for £68,000 in 1989 and rented out the rooms to Department of Social Security tenants . |
| 49 | However , by August , when it was obvious that there was no family accommodation to be found in town , I was forced to take on a croft cottage about seven miles to the north of Stornoway on the Eye Peninsula , known locally as the Point district . |
| 50 | The busiest time for the King 's Lynn depot is between October and February , during what is known locally as the sugar beet ‘ campaign ’ or harvest . |
| 51 | Retiring members included the Chairman , of who had been in post since 1984 , seeing the Council successfully through a record number of reviews of its work , ways of working and reconstitutions . |
| 52 | Help starts with social work and this is now more readily obtained locally through the area team structure . |
| 53 | Against that background , we consulted the industry widely about the contruction industry training board . |
| 54 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 55 | Yet the disreputable William Martin had won an enormous following in " Worstedopolis ' , culminating in a mighty show of hands at the hustings which had left no one in any doubt that , had those hands possessed a vote apiece , he would have been elected overwhelmingly as a Bradford MP . |
| 56 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |
| 57 | WHEN three European foreign ministers trooped off to Moscow last week , Mikhail Gorbachev talked politely about the Gulf war but failed to mention the peace plan he was about to launch . |
| 58 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ In fact I 've heard Mauleverer going on about a tripe restaurant in Paris . ’ |
| 60 | Everyone keeps going on about the Animal Farm |