Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another possibility for the seminar is that if you want to bring some notes along to a sort of , if you show me a if you dream up hypothetical questions and then put a plan to answer them so that I can skim down it in about a minute or two . |
| 4 | In mid-December the settlers were forced to leave one of the houses in after a court ruled against the eviction of the Arab occupants . |
| 5 | The payback on Visa and Access is growing as people try to keep running debts down to a minimum . |
| 6 | I was pleasantly surprised at how light the detector was , for when I have the free time to get out , I like to put as many hours in at a stretch as possible . |
| 7 | finish that picture I want to put your pyjamas on in a minute |
| 8 | But there 's some nice pictures on in a bit . |
| 9 | Pin the angled offcuts from the legs on to a scrap piece of wood to make an excellent cradle for planing and also for clamping blocks . |
| 10 | At lunchtime , when everyone was brewing up , the navigator plotted all those little legs on to a map . |
| 11 | Lift the triangles on to a baking sheet . |
| 12 | Having first transferred the shapes on to a piece of tracing paper , I find it easiest to almost trace the designs on to the cake , piercing through the outlines into the icing at regular intervals with a special cake scriber , or a sharp pin . |
| 13 | What Alianor had failed to realize was that , under the sombre cloak , she was wearing a new and quite beautiful pale-pink gown trimmed with dark fur — a gown such as few maidservants would set eyes on in a lifetime , much less wear . |
| 14 | They unloaded their trays on to a table . |
| 15 | At least you 'll have enough light to return , even if you 've worn your legs down to a stump . |
| 16 | Anne reportedly dug her heels in during a family conference at Balmoral . |
| 17 | Or consider Hotel Bora Bora where guests stay in overwater bungalows with steps down into a lagoon , or the Moana Beach where you can watch the fish below your bungalow through a glass coffee table ! |
| 18 | In the end , I never quite mastered the backhand , but I got the tantrums down to a tee ( you can not be serious ! — Ed ) . |
| 19 | But it is two goals down with a lot more to come — and that is a promise , ’ said Candlish . |
| 20 | If she is victorious in the area stage of the contest , Mrs. Fitzpatrick will be among 18 finalists in with a shot of the 1992 title in June . |
| 21 | A complete and intentional obliteration of a will or any part of it , so that what was written can no longer be seen , amounts to a revocation of what is obliterated ; but merely striking words through with a pen or altering them has no effect , unless the cancellation or alteration is signed by the testator and attested by two witnesses like a new will . |
| 22 | Mr How had set up a property firm called Prosperpoint , and transfered cash from his clients investment funds through to a bank in the Isle of Man , then on to Switzerland , then back to Prosperpoint . |
| 23 | I did knock at the door , then , when there was no response , took a couple of steps through into a passage floored with stone slabs and containing nothing but some buckets of coal and a rack of ancient clothes , gardening clobber by the look of it . |
| 24 | Two completely trivial points must be mentioned as they may bring readers up with a start : in the first movement of the Sibelius symphony at 3′17″ ( bar 40 ) , the third trombone plays E sharp instead of E natural , and in the first movement of the Shostakovich ( track 7 , 7′19″ , six bars after fig. 16 ) the bassoon plays a G natural instead of a flat . |
| 25 | Cos I 've got to take these kids up for a bath soon er er you can stay |
| 26 | Trent bunched his knees up as a fulcrum and as the man hit them , grasped the big man 's trousers at the waist , heaving for his life . |
| 27 | The maximum loan is 90 per cent of property value on mortgages or 75 per cent on remortgages up to a maximum of £150,000 . |
| 28 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 29 | ‘ We had to find six words out of a newspaper . |
| 30 | PSV Eindhoven 's stadium , for example , has standing room for 12,000 supporters out of a capacity of 28,000 . |