Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below 700m many of the soils are man-made — the soils on the terraces having been brought up from the river mouths or down from the bases of the escarpments . |
| 2 | I have probably missed a few esoteric cuisines and no doubt some of the possibilities you 'll see chalked up on the blackboard or down in the menus , but you 've got the general idea by now . |
| 3 | I 'm either up in the clouds or down in the dumps — you ought to know that by now . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ She 's out on the hills , or down in the fields . ’ |
| 5 | The conference was set up to attract more business to north Oxfordshire , where along of the flanks of the M40 empty office space is part of the landscape . |
| 6 | Unfortunately as the blocks reached the wall at either side they could not ride on or off at the ends . |
| 7 | All day he walked around the cove , or up on the cliffs ; all evening he sat in a corner of the room , and drank rum and water . |
| 8 | ‘ From Arsenal 's point of view , it 's good to have many players to choose from but Anders can not be happy sitting on the bench or up in the stands . |
| 9 | Hiding in comers or out on the hills in all weathers … |
| 10 | Here in Mr Shah 's hotel or out on the plains I find myself making all sorts of airy leaps and connections effortlessly . |
| 11 | The price for the shares must be paid out of distributable profits or out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purpose of the buy-back ( s160(1) ( a ) ) . |
| 12 | This is country where it is easy to live off the land , or out of the rivers , and to learn about life . |
| 13 | Fears about geriatric jets falling apart or out of the skies and stricter noise regulations force airlines to order replacements . |
| 14 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 15 | Do they want to fall in or out to the sides ? |
| 16 | These can be spooled in or out by the divers , from a control unit . |
| 17 | Er , you might just say well why do n't we pass that on to the clients , but we do n't . |
| 18 | What I actually said was that the price that we would have to charge for burying the dead had to go up in order to ensure that in of the circumstances our standards could remain impeccable . |
| 19 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |
| 20 | They go on and on about the nails . ’ |
| 21 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 22 | Olten is where the line from Zurich to Bern and on to the resorts of Lac Leman and to Geneva crosses that from Basle to Lucerne , the famous , is St Gotthard Pass , the Italianate Ticino , thence to Milan and Italy itself . |
| 23 | Our long-term aim is to shift the burden of taxation away from the things the country needs more of — income , savings and value added — and on to the things we want less of , such as pollution and resource depletion . |
| 24 | Once recruited they were marched to the nearest railway station , entrained on a variety of wagons , and transported to recruiting reception centres and on to the mines . |
| 25 | These would include the arguments of the major poet-critics of the past : Sidney , Jonson , Dryden , Johnson , and on to the Romantics , Victorians , and modernists . |
| 26 | Her next big campaign , shot by Herb Ritts , launched her into the fashion stratosphere and on to the covers of magazines from Vogue to Rolling Stone . |
| 27 | Gathering my things , I moved out of the plane and on to the stairs . |
| 28 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 29 | We can take our students beyond that stage of technical feedback and on to the levels of self-enlightenment and self-emancipation , through encouraging ever-wider and higher levels of self-criticism . |
| 30 | Concerned at the way neither she nor her friends wore ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes ( too many frills , too much lace , all up to the neck and down to the ankles , they said ) Laura asked them to come up with suggestions for the sort of outfits they would like to wear . |