Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tickling in the pit of the throat or down the centre of the chest to the stomach , causes coughing and may be with a congested head and wrenching pains in the right of the chest . |
| 2 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 3 | Store in a cool , light place in trays , on ropes or down the legs of old stockings . |
| 4 | Every Tuesday her fat little fingers flew like birds up and down the keys of the piano . |
| 5 | It had rained heavily during the night — a sudden downpour which had filled the gutters and drains which supplied the city 's water catchment system — so that when dawn broke it could be seen that many of the drapes and festoons over archways and down the faces of stands and platforms had been torn from the frames by the weight of the water which had soaked them . |
| 6 | Dyson lingered , and he and Lewis found still more to say to one another , strolling up and down the cloister of New Buildings . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm damned sure it was an attempt to kill Tweed , ’ Kuhlmann told Newman as they again strolled up and down the concourse of the main station . |
| 8 | The Judge raised his noose again , while the rats ran desperately up and down the rope of the alarm bell . |
| 9 | The Carpets ' presence on the cider-swilling student circuit is a far cry from their ( brief ) spell marching up and down the stages of places as big as Manchester 's G-Mex centre , not to mention their almost-forgotten headline slot at Reading . |
| 10 | And his breath too was warm against her cheek and down the back of her neck , making her spine tingle . |
| 11 | There was a total failure to communicate effectively both up and down the lines of management . |
| 12 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he muttered , his glance trailing up and down the columns of print . |
| 13 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 14 | The party he had sought up and down the streets of Keswick , around the lake and in the gardens , was here in the mysterious circle of fifty upright stones at Castlerigg . |
| 15 | Continuing their tradition of affordable limited-edition guitars , Martin 's special 1993-model D-16 is the D-16H , an all-mahogany dreadnought with herringbone trim around the soundhole and down the centre of the back . |
| 16 | The beds are cramped together along the walls and down the centre of the ward . |
| 17 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 18 | As this rose vertically into the air , the nuees rolled away sideways from its base , and down the flanks of the volcano . |
| 19 | The path of El Niño : from the seas off South East Asia , across the Pacific , and down the coast of South America . |
| 20 | It is also worthy of note that East Prussian amber was being traded among hunter-fisher communities over extensive tracts of Finland , the East Baltic countries and north-east Russia as far as Lake Onega and the Upper Volga , as well as up and down the coast of western Norway , at a time when Neolithic farming communities were being established in south Scandinavia . |
| 21 | The process necessitates rings of light oscillating up and down the body of the robot . |
| 22 | Much the most destructive effects of the explosions , however , were a series of tsunamis ( often wrongly called tidal waves ) which swept up and down the shores of the Sunda Straits . |
| 23 | Judi took her hands out of her pockets , and brushed her fingers up and down the front of her waistcoat . |
| 24 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 25 | He did n't like the microphone and had to be cajoled into using it , he stalked up and down the front of the hall quoting from cuttings on the Vietnam War , and was heard by few . |
| 26 | It was right up to his mouth when Lamarr Dean nudged him , reaching out and pushing him a little , and the mescal spilled over the Apache 's chin and down the front of his vest . |
| 27 | Communicate effectively with colleagues , both up and down the chain of responsibility , to help ensure that risk management activities are sufficiently comprehensive and understood . |
| 28 | In the seventeenth century a famous visionary and seer , locally know as the Brahan Seer , predicted ‘ That the day will come when every stream will have its bridge , balls of fire will pass rapidly up and down the Strath of Peffery , carriages without horses will cross the country from sea to sea . ’ |
| 29 | It would certainly not be over stressing the point to say that Waugh returns a maturer player than when last seen sprinting up and down the wickets of Colchester and Southend . |
| 30 | These were subdivided into smaller fields and a cropping rotation devised with the objective of moving production up and down the length of the strip . |