Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | It mounts up to over a thousand quid . |
| 32 | Fedorov 's carriage was in view again , its outline jutting out from behind a heap of timber on the wharf . |
| 33 | Features to look out for on a commercial microwave oven include a turbo-grill , a convection oven and microwave functions that can reduce cooking times by up to 50 per cent . |
| 34 | When the Stockton and Darlington Railway first rolled through the countryside in the 1820s , there really was n't very much in the Middleton area for a bored passenger to look out at from a window . |
| 35 | But for many people is n't it the case that the the church wedding is an an and the promises made the vows made before God and er before the the congregation , for many people they 're just a sort of rather erm oh dear how can I put it rather a flimsy frippery erm that they just feel it 's essential to have so that they can have the nice pictures and and look back on on a church wedding . |
| 36 | Working-class community life is as strongly established in Glasgow as anywhere , and football violence has occurred there for over a century . |
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| 38 | When she arrives home in the evening , she knows she will have no stimulating exchange of news to look forward to with a husband and family . |
| 39 | The next topic we 're moving on to in a way w is is erm speaking in terms of time , precedes the work of the feature analysis , the feature analysists . |
| 40 | I stare dumbly from behind a glass |
| 41 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 42 | Picasso too had stayed near by in a cluster of farmers ' cottages . |
| 43 | Uncle Camillo popped up from behind a bush . |
| 44 | lost something and I ca n't , I ca n't find it and I 'm looking and I 'm , and ee , and er , a bit of a noise or anything I 'm looking backwards is coming and then I realize he 's not there any more to come and then other days I just feel like I 'm dangling in the air and can see the , the ground and I ca n't touch it with my feet , just somewhere right , right out , it 's not real , not real you know and then you go , you get back to with a bump and know that it 's real and then it just feels left , nothing else , you ca n't help yourself in any other way . |
| 45 | A little shriek escaped a startled mouth , and Annie popped out from behind a bamboo table containing a large potted aspidistra . |
| 46 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 47 | At the first bump the strap sprang off and the bike fell onto the road , but as the front wheel was still tied on , the bike was dragged behind for over a mile , until vehicles hooting from behind warned me something was amiss . |
| 48 | Oh I 'd love to go back to for a chat |
| 49 | She was heading for the supermercado when a flaxen-haired man with a teak-dark tan waved vigorously from beyond a group of onlookers on the opposite side of the square . |
| 50 | If you 've got the right name , if you 've a a number of or something coming in to for a part and of of them you 've seen on television and done a lot equally or as good or better , but you 're gon na be go for that one probably . |
| 51 | At the Plain roundabout go straight over into Cowley Road and continue along for about a mile and a half . |
| 52 | Well like I mean we all know what a bell is , a bell which is set off by by a human body coming in . |
| 53 | On the page opposite there is a cartoon of Pissed dressed up in a suit lying face down in the gutter clutching a bottle of lager , and Mickey Aspel coming out from under a manhole cover saying ‘ George Best ! |
| 54 | Teddy comes out of his office on cue like a moray eel coming out from behind a rock . |
| 55 | The voice of Mrs Plant called out from behind a lighted upstairs window , wanting to know whom her husband was talking to . |
| 56 | She 'd never felt so lost ; there was nothing to hold on to in a world so alien . |
| 57 | Even without this icing on the cake , I suspect that the set would be the ideal ‘ book ’ for a physicist to be cast away with on a desert island , provided paper and pencils were also supplied . |
| 58 | Slowly to dry it was always as , as he went up to about a |
| 59 | From the eyelid down , one cheek was a mask of blood ; the eye stared opaquely from under a half-closed lid . |
| 60 | Ninety to a hundred decibels gets pretty uncomfortable , and a noisy factory can go up to about a hundred and twenty decibels and Environmental Health Officers for example are very concerned about this because it causes long-term problems in people 's ears . |