Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a permit , which might cost £75 a year for cars and up to £750 for heavy lorries , would cost all motorway-users the same . |
| 2 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 3 | Yasmin Awan and Tahira Khan , from the college 's multi-cultural unit , said information on what was on offer had been distributed to communities and along with home visits and promotional events people were coming forward . |
| 4 | We sat for a while by the cairn in the hot sun looking out before us , the only noise being the sound of the beck behind us falling over boulders and down towards Brackens Gill and the Dee . |
| 5 | A panel of judges will read all the entries , and the chosen one will win the tank they need , plus cabinet and hood from AQUARIUMS , CABINETS AND HOODS and up to £150 worth of fishkeeping equipment to complete their dream set-up . |
| 6 | Hanging over parapets and out of windows , clustering in the streets and on the rooftops , the crowd whistled and applauded . |
| 7 | They were asked to make a mouthwatering meal for four using two ducklings , a savoy cabbage , potatoes and up to 3lbs of other ingredients . |
| 8 | The interesting nine-hole golf course affords beautiful views of the mountains and out to Ponta do São Lourenço . |
| 9 | For a song , too , because he had not been able to bear the thought of going back , meeting a valuer , walking about the house , picking things off shelves and out of cupboards . |
| 10 | Tearaways and out of control , had become the prevalent opinion in Lancaster Road . |
| 11 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 12 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 13 | The resignation also inevitably reopened the vexed question of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership style : she was accused variously of being domineering , abrasive , unwilling to listen to other opinions and out of touch with grassroot opinion on the backbenches , the party and the country . |
| 14 | ‘ Thompson at your service , ’ said the landlord coming to meet him with a welcoming smile which disappeared quickly as he saw Midnight — his glance sliding from the metal collar to the handcuffs and on to Jess 's flushed face . |
| 15 | Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle . |
| 16 | After reaching this stage there are still opportunities for movement from small houses to large houses and on to Travel Inns which are often attached to a Beefeater Restaurant . |
| 17 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 18 | Combat gear should stay out of clubs and back on squaddies and serial killers |
| 19 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 20 | This points to shifting the emphasis away from direct tax on people 's incomes and on to taxes on wealth or on spending . |
| 21 | None the less , at the end of each day there will be a small net flow into some banks and out of others . |
| 22 | Paul McBride , for Todd , 32 , of Hogarth Road , London , said that he had known Sim for a number of years and out of loyalty wanted to help him . |
| 23 | Behaviour therapy , Gestalt therapy , Art Therapy , Music Therapy , Transactional Analysis , Psychotherapy , Psychosynthesis , Psycho Drama and any number of other techniques may help some people who have problems with the process of moving rationally from thoughts to feelings and on to actions , even though these techniques have nothing to offer to the specific recovery process from addictive disease itself . |
| 24 | The initial public offering of 10m shares , about a quarter of the enlarged equity , is expected to be priced in the range of $18 to $20 , raising between $150m and $250m — some $100m for executives and up to $150m in new money for the company . |
| 25 | I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations . |
| 26 | But soon it was on with those famous upside-down glasses and down to business . |
| 27 | Almost all the stock work was carried out by wives and up to 60% of all work on some farms was probably carried out by wives . |
| 28 | There is no advantage in pricing lorries off the highways and on to by-ways . |
| 29 | It is always the same with Labour Members — down with profits and up with investment , with no comment on where the money is to come from . |
| 30 | Before a bemused Cranston could reply , Athelstan had slipped out of the room , walking gingerly across the noisy Nightingale Gallery , down the stairs and out into Cheapside . |