Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Go on about the pig now ! ’ said Maisie . |
| 2 | Well we went every day on about the mail so it was a passenger service that really started off in nineteen fifty five but we bought maybe in nineteen fifty three or fifty four . |
| 3 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 4 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're on for the night then ? ’ |
| 6 | Right boys , come on out the way now . |
| 7 | Then he hesitated because he had left it too late and he was concerned that Tom would walk in through the door again at any minute . |
| 8 | Oh we 'll get in through the window then , that 'll be a laugh . |
| 9 | He would come down for the weekend before and see to the final arrangements , of various things . |
| 10 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 11 | so I wonder if she 's going down the , well she might be down for the service now |
| 12 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 13 | Would you get down off the table please . |
| 14 | You will see that we have followed our own advice and climbed down off the fence here . |
| 15 | The Redcar offshore lifeboat was called to the aid of a fishing vessel which broke down off the coast yesterday . |
| 16 | and then do your other half of knot , reef knot and tuck it in straight away , you get your pin ready , have it on , either on the table or ready like that , now if you 've got too much material ever you just fold that down , there , if that 's too much , which is n't too much with Denise because it 's the right size sling , sometimes you have to improvise and then you fold if forward and back , firmly , take the pin and put it , put your two fingers down between the casualty so that your fingers are apart and there 's a space between your fingers so you can stick the pin in and out again without any danger , if you put the fingers apart like that , if you do stick the pin in yourself and draw blood would you please throw the pin away , as a matter of automatic hygiene , it must n't be used again once it 's been stuck into somebody |
| 17 | The quarters should be in off the track as much as the shoulders would be in shoulderin , keeping plenty of bend behind the saddle . |
| 18 | Yes , it 's in a building attached to the wall of the Convent , so that it 's people can walk in off the street directly into The Porch . |
| 19 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 20 | And it 's being pencilled in for the weekend after Wigan are due to defend their world sevens title in Sydney on February 5-7 . |
| 21 | If the child is n't in for the mark prior going to the doctors at ten o'clock they 're absent even if they have a note . |
| 22 | What I find though , erm , becau my , because we got so much stuff coming in for the shop anyway , like the lettuce or the fruit and veg , my parents don , you know , like most people go , yo your mother probably goes , how many , how often does she make a shopping trip ? |
| 23 | If , on reaching the lowest level , the points have not been re-aligned positively , with a set tolerance , the procedure returns to the highest level and successively provides a rotational correction down through the system again . |
| 24 | He ran screaming down through the orchard somehow missing collision with the trees , and clutching at the burning camouflage square . |
| 25 | Simon Povoas , for example , proved himself an excellent deputy to the injured Dean Richards at No. 8 and the Tigers ticked along despite the absence also of Les Cusworth , Paul Dodge and John Wells . |
| 26 | Such research and development within the industry is increasingly important since the run down of the research previously undertaken by the MAFF laboratories at Slough and Tolworth but no longer available ‘ beyond the farm gate ’ . |
| 27 | A bird slid past , wings soughing as it planed down towards the water below , darkening now with the beginnings of a breeze . |
| 28 | Walking down towards the pueblo again , seeing the roomy spread of small farms , the elegant eucalyptus trees which shade them , a handful of birds break from the tall lupins . |
| 29 | Keep tucked in behind the side always said to you , the bloke in the front , mate , he does all the donkey work , picking up drags you round do n't it ? |
| 30 | and everything , you know in behind the ear here , I felt as if my head was |