Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 2 | Once past her garden , Clare turned off the narrow lane on to a path hedged high with hawthorn , which led up the gently rising hill behind the cottage to the wood . |
| 3 | A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum . |
| 4 | As Ilse happily slipped out of her thin white overall , Ingrid noticed the audience tossing money on to a plate which was being passed around . |
| 5 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 6 | And at seven thirty , Karen found herself sipping sherry in a borrowed frock and shaking fingers politely with a lawyer and his wife , whom she disliked quite intensely after fifty seconds . |
| 7 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 8 | The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight . |
| 9 | It 's no good doing the most lovely building right down a drive where no-one can see it , so it 's part of the environment for all of us . |
| 10 | Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper 's . |
| 11 | Nina turned the fragments of food on her plate with all the delicacy of an archaeologist lifting a shard on to a trowel . |
| 12 | But if you leave a light bulb on for a year , it 'll cost you more than leaving the fan heater on for an hour . |
| 13 | There is nothing in the Children Act 1989 which provides for the court to tack any direction on to a care order and I have to say that , in my judgment , the addition of a direction of any sort to a care order is a fetter on the local authority plans , authority and responsibility . |
| 14 | Pin the tracing on to a wall . |
| 15 | But Fael-Inis was concentrating on spreading honey on to a wedge of bread , and seemed not to notice . |
| 16 | Smiling broadly to herself she closed the heavy wooden door behind us and fastened the little chain latch on to a nail on the adjacent door . |
| 17 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 18 | And meant only for summer and early autumn ; no heating apparatus except the open fires , and a kitchen rather on a par for mod cons with my cottage at Otters ' Bay . |
| 19 | Reproachfully , Rosa dipped into the deep pot of olives and served a scoop of the waxy jade pebbles on to a dish and set it near Tommaso . |
| 20 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 21 | This was the famous gun that could put a shell on to a target and then another two on the same spot precisely . |
| 22 | Better still , the whole board should be protected within a framework rather like a picture frame with its face covered with clear polycarbonate sheet . |
| 23 | She dipped her fingers delicately into a dish and , to my astonishment , popped a morsel of food into my mouth instead of into her own . |
| 24 | Then Connie would move into the sanatorium along with a lot of legal talent he had lined up to look after his interests — and Connie 's , too , of course — and I 'd head for home with my five hundred . ’ |
| 25 | This freedom together with a diet of high cereal and whole wheat , and the JS combination of traditional methods of maturation with modern chilling and packaging methods , produce these full flavoured , succulent and tender chickens . |
| 26 | However , where there is a breach of any term which is not a condition , that breach could be either repudiatory ( i.e. equivalent in effect to a breach of condition ) or a mere breach of warranty ( i.e. giving rise only to a claim to damages ) . |
| 27 | Advances of capital and determinations of interest during the life of the beneficiary which have taken place before 26/3/74 can give rise only to a claim for duty or tax in connection with the beneficiary 's death ( a ) If the death takes place before 13/11/74 any claim for estate duty must be made under Section 2(1) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , and all the present estate duty rules apply . |
| 28 | Russell said , " Before you leave , put money down for a mescal . " |
| 29 | The speed of transmission varies from 6 minutes down to a matter of seconds per A4 page , depending on the type of fax machine used . |
| 30 | A worthwhile person is always competent : he never makes mistakes , slips of the tongue , errors of judgement or loses his thread halfway through a lesson or a meeting . |