Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 2 | He has recovered his form superbly after a broken finger threatened his career last season , and England boss Graham Taylor said : ‘ Sometimes when you 're with a Second Division club or out in the far North East you can feel forgotten . |
| 3 | In prisons , in the trenches , in the factory canteen or down at the dole office , it helps to cushion the harshness of life . |
| 4 | This magnetotail could steer larger quantities of charged particles on to the near side than on to the far side . |
| 5 | More as a means of occupying his mind than out of a desire to establish the facts , Rostov began to calculate the data which governed the interlocking arcs of fire of the Tarvaras platforms . |
| 6 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
| 7 | Red card and back to the subs ' bench for Jim . |
| 8 | He kept rolling , still hanging on to his weapons , and fell over the front of the Jeep and on to the pavement outside . |
| 9 | Since the causal chain passes through perception and on to the rest of the nervous system , perhaps triggering action , it must become physical again . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 12 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 13 | This line can he traced , rather precisely , from New England , through south-west Ireland , via south Pembrokeshire and the Gower Peninsula , under the University College of Swansea , then south of the Kent coalfield to the Boulonnais and on as the Grande Faille din Midi far into the European continent . |
| 14 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His hands , sliding from her hair to her neck and down inside the filmy black blouse , denied the imputation . |
| 17 | The first people in each team place the keys down their neck and out through the bottom of their trouser legs or slacks . |
| 18 | The oil is getting into the wheel bearings and forcing grease past the oil seal and on to the brake shoes . |
| 19 | From here I walked on to Men Scryfa , an iron age monument and on to the Nine Maidens prehistoric stone circle . |
| 20 | A piece of smokeless fuel fell out of the grate and on to the hearth . |
| 21 | In this way , the compressions or sound waves pass through the throat and mouth and out through the lips , spreading in all directions . |
| 22 | Steadying himself , he made his way over the roof and on to the parapet that ran along the side of the building . |
| 23 | Back in her drab black dress , Ellie was escorted smartly out of the ready-made department and back into the elevator . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They are on the bonnets of the jeeps , some are clinging precariously onto the sides as both vehicles speed away through the farmyard and out into the road . |
| 26 | The boy , arms and legs as thin as sticks , his eyes dark and round in a long , white face , came over , his thumb stuck in his mouth . |
| 27 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 28 | She turned to express some of her thanks to him , but he was already out of the car and round by the passenger door opening it for her . |
| 29 | She struggled to free herself , and rolled out of the car and on to the ground . |
| 30 | She waited for him to invite her into the car and out for the day . |