Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These children had suffered 25 attacks between them over a 59-day period . |
| 2 | Chewing on her lower lip , she trundled after him along a flagged passageway and up an ornate wooden staircase . |
| 3 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 4 | They do n't promote somebody that 's gon na shimmy past them up the corporate ladder although you could n't |
| 5 | You would n't want to meet her coming towards you down a dark alley . |
| 6 | ‘ Hello sweetheart , ’ he smiled , and walked past her up the narrow passage and into the back kitchen . |
| 7 | The Trust owned nearly a hundred acres , most of it along a low wooded ridge . |
| 8 | Then my father slowly raised his rifle and there was the tiger , padding towards us along a narrow game trail , his head moving from side to side . |
| 9 | The NEAP process involves : ( i ) the identification of a country 's environmental conditions and specific problems ; ( ii ) preparation of proposals to overcome the problems ; and ( iii ) formulation of a plan of action to deal with them over a specific period of time . |
| 10 | The Profitboss. genuinely cares for his customers and develops sound trusting relationships with them over a long period of time . |
| 11 | and you go with her down the unlit hall |
| 12 | He took possession of her hand with almost too much confidence , drawing her with him down the slippery slope of wet grass towards the waterside . |
| 13 | gut Mr Lu got back into it down the last . |
| 14 | The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform . |
| 15 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 16 | The bulk of the programme would then outline in some detail the specific projects being funded , and the resources allocated to them over a 3–4-year period . |
| 17 | His choice of vegetables was being dictated to him over a portable telephone . |
| 18 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 19 | HCFC-123 , a substitute material for ozone-damaging chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) being marketed by the British chemical company ICI , has been found to cause tumours in rats exposed to it over a two-year period . |
| 20 | Any one network junction has topological neighbours , that is , junctions connected to it along a common chain , but it also possesses spatial neighbour junctions — junctions which may in fact be nearer to it in the continuum space but which belong to other chains . |
| 21 | We have an impressive ability to recognise those familiar to us over a wide variety of conditions : for example varying lighting conditions , viewing angles , cosmetic changes ( hairstyles or make-up ) and even age . |
| 22 | Well , there was no need to decide straight away ; she could think about it over a leisurely solo breakfast . |
| 23 | Gary Stebbing was a stylish England Youth international and sometime captain who joined the Palace straight from school in 1983 and played in a variety of midfield and defensive positions for us over a five year span . |