Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Athelstan persisted , ‘ it 's not far — a few miles through Aldgate and down the Mile End Road . |
| 2 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 3 | She slowed and turned right crossing the Chemin de BelleFontaine and down the Route de la Capite , upwards off the main highway and into the Chemin Faguillon . |
| 4 | A wave of hot air rushed around the fleeing Karnstein and down the tunnel . |
| 5 | From Scotland Yard , Nigel Cramer and six officers set off in two patrol cars , their sirens howling up Whitehall and down the Mall to pick up Park Lane and the road north out of London . |
| 6 | Trips have already taken place to Edinburgh Castle , Luss on Loch Lomond and up the Clyde Valley . |
| 7 | The Pedestrian count — the results of the count taken from the North-East corner of Old Market Square and up the Mansfield Road , showed a notable drop-off at Bluecoat Street/York House , which means a reduction in people using this route . |
| 8 | Beautifully designed and minted , the silver pieces were used as the preferred exchange in southern Arabia and down the East African coast until as recently as the 1970s . |
| 9 | If the move up-market started anywhere , it was on Saturday 4 July 1981 , when SLOA ran the first PSLC over the Settle & Carlisle and down the Appleby-Warcop branch , for what now seems a very modest fare of £15 first class , £12 second class from London ( Euston ) , together with a tray meal at £2 ! |
| 10 | During summer loose pack ice from the Arctic Ocean streams southward through the Greenland Sea and down the east Greenland coast ; lesser streams pass from the Barents Sea to the Norwegian Sea and from Baffin Bay down the Labrador coast , ultimately to melt in the warmer waters of the north Atlantic Ocean . |
| 11 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |