Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its aim is to introduce people who are 50 or over to a whole new range of activities and opportunities so they can realise and put into practice their own particular talents . |
| 2 | The message conveyed to the brain from one such cell is a bit ambiguous : it is saying either that a stationary spot is going on or off in a particular region , or that something is moving upwards in that region . |
| 3 | THE SECOND TRANSITION : TO A NEW JOB OR BACK TO A PREVIOUS ONE |
| 4 | If you 're moving in or out of a multi-storey block , try to arrange priority at lifts and make sure there 's a suitable place to load or unload the van . |
| 5 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 6 | The drive to Templeton , her Old Westbury , Long Island mansion , sweeps through a verdant meadow dotted with horse jumps , past an avenue of linden trees ( planted by her uncle-in-law J.S. Phipps in 1906 ) , and on towards a spectacular ‘ moon gate ’ trellisage — Mrs Guest 's own invention — which frames in its circled centre a vista of kitchen gardens , cutting gardens , flamboyant topiary , and the house itself , build of old weathered brick and weather- board in the Twenties Wiltshire Queen Anne vernacular . |
| 7 | Then the road swung left of a forest of palms , where man-made trenches flanked the road and cradled young trees , and on past a mud-brick cafe , and the village of Sbaa , with its pyramid tower and mosque . |
| 8 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 9 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 10 | Without waiting to be shown , she walked through the primitive kitchen and on to a small balcony perched perilously above the red-tiled roofs of the houses below . |
| 11 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 12 | Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepción into the headwaters of the bay — only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift , and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock . |
| 13 | He directs Rainbow into a side road , and on to a semicircular driveway before a handsome villa — probably late Regency , perfect of its kind . |
| 14 | And it ran on , beyond the perimeter of the chamber , on and on in a straight line for hundreds of metres , for kilometres , dwindling in the distance to a taut thread against darkness but still stretching away . |
| 15 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 16 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |
| 17 | It will bob up and down at a higher rate . |
| 18 | He jumps up and down with a vague look of aggression on his face , puts his hand on his hips and shows us his pot belly . |
| 19 | A set of raw recruits was marching up and down with a new drill instructor , who sounded every bit as determined as the late Sergeant-Major Philpott had been to see that the snow was never allowed to settle . |
| 20 | ‘ all the witches dance here at midnight : and those who go may see their own ghosts walking up and down with a little Billet on the back , giving the names of those who had wished them there . |
| 21 | He folded brawny arms across his chest , eyeing her taut , curvy body up and down with a leisured , insolent appraisal . |
| 22 | Arlene looked her up and down with a practised eye . |
| 23 | A general wander up and down on a previous occasion had produced some interesting items , but I knew that the site had not seen past habitation . |
| 24 | It was like having jumped up and down on a beautiful springboard , relishing the thrill of the plunge into the deep roaring water , and then diving at last into an empty pool . |
| 25 | When she reached a certain point it bent sharply and excitingly down , and she was soon enjoying the sensation of going up and down on a galloping pony . |
| 26 | Quickly , I pulled her off the road and down under a small bridge . |
| 27 | Through fences and barb-wire , over the top of a rocky hill , and down into a hidden valley . |
| 28 | The dark girl had dived into the bright turquoise swimming-pool , and was swimming up and down in a leisurely breast-stroke , moving through the myriad white marble reflections in the water like a fish . |
| 29 | Ride up and down in a chauffeur-driven limousine , smoking big cigars . |
| 30 | This sturdy pump , which is of the upright free-standing type , has another neat refinement — a float switch that slides up and down within a sturdy plastic housing , rather than pivoting . |