Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 2 | Gertrude stopped working , and collapsed ponderously on to a seat . |
| 3 | Well , she went right down to a size ten when she lost all that weight before . |
| 4 | Bravura camerawork conspires with a scarce script and some edgy cutting to exploit every ounce of tension , right down to a killer ending . |
| 5 | Come on in for a cup of tea … " |
| 6 | And sat wearily down with a grunt and a frown |
| 7 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 8 | ‘ More wine ? ’ she asked , throwing her coat carelessly on to a sofa in the drawing-room . |
| 9 | Melissa put an arm round her and , at a sign from Madame Delon , led her into the salon , pushed her gently on to a couch and sat down beside her . |
| 10 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 11 | He moved to her side and took her hand , pulling her down on to a sofa facing his brother . |
| 12 | Shrugging off the severely cut navy blue linen jacket of her new designer suit , she tossed it over on top of her briefcase , before sinking down on to a sofa and sighing with relief as she slipped off her high-heeled blue court shoes . |
| 13 | ‘ I told you to sit down ! ’ he ground out through clenched teeth , and when she did n't immediately obey him he placed his hands on her shoulders , pushing her firmly down on to a sofa . |
| 14 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 15 | I was feeling so tired that I just sank down on to a bench , and — ’ |
| 16 | Robyn sank down on to a chair . |
| 17 | So he was only in for a couple of days then ? |
| 18 | I I certainly did n't go in in in in with a rank on my shoulder , I went in as a recruit . |
| 19 | And er and when that was been in the field whatever days , depending on the weather , if you 'd got a good dry summer well you 'd perhaps take it in in after a week , you see ? |
| 20 | was approved by the majority of the House of Lords in In re A Company [ 1981 ] A.C. 374 . |
| 21 | From the steep sheep-bitten turf at the head of these cliffs the land slopes gently down towards a glen where the island 's only sizeable river runs seawards out of a loch cupped in a shallow basin among low hills . |
| 22 | The road drooped gently down to a ford . |
| 23 | An introduction to a DDL for each type of system is discussed below along with a description of the ways in which the data could be accessed and updated using the Data Manipulation Language ( DML ) . |
| 24 | Kenya has about one million flamingos living around lakes Nakuru and Bogoria , a major tourist attraction , and the species ' survival is not said to be threatened by the epidemic , which is expected to die down in about a month . |
| 25 | what 's a black arrow pointing up over with a black arrow pointing down over in a triangle ? |
| 26 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 27 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 28 | Finding decent practice facilities was a constant headache , leading to some crazy situations ; in St Vincent , for example , Ken Barrington , the assistant manager , hunted all over for a place for Boycott to practise , and eventually found a piece of flat ground near the airport which had ducks waddling around and a donkey at long leg . |
| 29 | Place one cake on a serving plate , spike all over with a skewer and lace with half the kirsch . |
| 30 | Prick the base all over with a fork , line with foil and then add rice or baking beans . |