Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . |
| 2 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’ |
| 3 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 4 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 5 | She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck . |
| 6 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 7 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 8 | ‘ I went to the restaurant and put the money down for a large brandy . |
| 9 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 10 | Then again if you 're I think the only thing on that I would say is that , creativity in as a positive , erm , that that your there are loads of possibilities about how you could actually try and create situations , which would actually break down barrier , one of the barriers you had was , I 'll give you one if you give me one . |
| 11 | He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in . |
| 12 | Liberate , pacemaker for Alphabatim , took the field along at a strong gallop as far as the straight , a good half mile from home , where he fell back and allowed Commanche Run to take up the running . |
| 13 | This means that if the calculations you give exclude the tail , another 48″ of fish should be removed to bring the stocking level down to a manageable size . |
| 14 | At the first pruning , take each stem down to a suitable bud , so that ideally it is reduced to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10 cm ) in length . |
| 15 | For statistics alone are unlikely to stop a 17-year-old putting his foot down in a lethal weapon . |
| 16 | Full of hope , I took the watch in to a smart business in the Rue du Rhône , where it was examined by a stately manager . |
| 17 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 18 | When he arrived there were disappointingly few people and he felt rather obvious holding on to a rolled-up newspaper . |
| 19 | He turned the oven on to 250 and put the okra and the edenwort on to a low heat . |
| 20 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 21 | TWO workmen were in hospital last night after falling 18ft through a false roof on to a concrete floor . |
| 22 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 23 | Battling Nottingham turned the table upside down with a priceless 18–9 win against Northampton that could keep them in division one and deny their visitors the championship . |
| 24 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |
| 25 | ‘ Stones arranged in heaps , ’ said Fenella , frowning , reining her horse in to a slow walk . |
| 26 | put a bid in at a certain price . |
| 27 | I pulled the car in beside a late-business liquor store . |
| 28 | The coach , from London , costs under £40 but the trains , actually taking longer , weight in at a hefty £68 . |
| 29 | Regional nerves have been strained by a plan to cut off water from Syria and Iraq for a month , and by the Syrian shooting down of a Turkish civilian plane in October . |
| 30 | Carry the demonstration through with a straight face , too , and remonstrate with your volunteer if he laughs , which he is sure to do . |