Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor and Ace pounded breathlessly through the grotto and down the tunnel after Mait . |
| 2 | He seemed to sense her mood , drawing back a little as they went through the forward lock and up the cockpit steps . |
| 3 | We stayed first with Gary and Kaye ( Burns ) , who live near the top of Seatoun Heights with a stupendous view down the harbour and up the Hutt Valley . |
| 4 | Remarkably quickly , however , the last of the human tide ran from the house entrance and up the ramps of the rigs , which were now almost packed full . |
| 5 | The French Commando has been wounded in the thigh , the bullet passing in one side and out the other . |
| 6 | Rain firehosing in one side and out the other . |
| 7 | The Dawsons themselves had enthusiastically helped to heave it over a rut and up the slope to the garage . |
| 8 | He wrote : ‘ It is like a vast supermarket in which absentmindedly , yet intent on what we are doing , we push our shopping trolleys up one aisle and down the other , while death and alienation have the run of the place . ’ |
| 9 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
| 10 | And she did ; but the Inglese had disappeared through the window and down a drainpipe . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Corbett followed him across the yard as the English envoy made his way carefully through the throng and up a flight of steep stairs into the main keep of the castle . |
| 13 | He swept along the corridor and up a flight of stairs with the Englishman at his heels . |
| 14 | The audience flowed in behind as Argyll and his tall , rawboned wife dragged Elizabeth , screaming , swearing , fighting every step , out of the hall and up the stair to the empty guest room next to his own . |
| 15 | It would have a job flattening that boisterous family , thought Joe as he carried the young woman through the passage and up the flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 16 | Twelve such operations later , you have your year 's month headings entered , and only then realise that you should have started not at cell A1 ( the top left hand corner of any spreadsheet ) , but in a bit and down a bit — you have to put row headings in as well . |
| 17 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May . |
| 18 | Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas causing the fire to spread along the passageway and up the stairwell to the second floor . |
| 19 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 20 | His next project is to take seven mentally disabled people to Everest Base Camp and up a 22,000ft high peak . |
| 21 | Then they ran out of the saloon and up the backstairs as quickly as they could , to resume their game in the safety of the nursery . |
| 22 | They walked back through the kitchen and down the hallway to the front entrance of the house . |
| 23 | She went along the landing and down the staircase , still in a waking dream , crossing the hall and seeing Penman there , waiting to open the drawing-room door for her , as if it was someone she was watching perform , not herself but another being altogether . |
| 24 | Cross over the stile on the left and follow the path down , over the stream and down a slope . |
| 25 | And his breath too was warm against her cheek and down the back of her neck , making her spine tingle . |
| 26 | I still left Winston Street every morning for the long cycle ride through town and up the Banbury Road . |
| 27 | A burglar who fell through the roof of a shop and down a ventilator shaft has been jailed for three years . |
| 28 | The ‘ chute is then pulled into a sausage , with that extra line from the release pin passing through the vent and down the parachute , leaving a few inches of line to spare . |
| 29 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |
| 30 | In 1935 he was at Loe Agra , where there was more fierce fighting , and then on the Khajuri Plain and up the Khyber Pass . |