Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , quite apart from the fact that such a statement does not accommodate cases of emergency — cases where the defendant 's unlawful conduct could , unless restrained , cause serious and irreparable harm before trial , as for example where the defendant threatens to cut down a tree in breach of a tree preservation order — in other cases it is usually not so much the flagrancy of the breach as the fact that the defendant intends to persist in offending unless restrained by an injunction , which justifies the invocation of that form of relief : see City of London Corporation v. Bovis Construction Ltd . |
| 2 | Except in thin-shelled populations , adults usually lay down a row of teeth along the lip of the aperture . |
| 3 | Walk down a row of houses in a pit village today , and ask where the people 's ancestors came from . |
| 4 | you see and I 'm glad I did n't miss it , I 'm glad I went through all what I did and , and this particular raid , you see , the siren went and they said a telegraph office read , you see , an and then I thought I 'll go to the back door and I went to the , well it was actually on the front of the station and I went to the front of the station and there was this plane swooping down like that and of course , you see , the bombs did n't fall down straight like that but they went as the plane went and they knocked down a row of houses at the end of the road . |
| 5 | We used to work down a row of bricks or tiles . |
| 6 | And tonight we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity . |
| 7 | As she pushed the emptied skip back towards the scutching room for the umpteenth time , her legs simply stopped working and she sagged against the basket , fighting down a wave of dizziness and nausea . |
| 8 | There , down a mile of scree , were thousands of palm trees , and , I thought , a village . |
| 9 | Before the Colonel and his wife had helped themselves from the sideboard to cakes and sandwiches , and Fru Møller had put down a pot of tea on the table in front of them , Elisabeth Danziger had found the strength to rise and walk slowly out of the drawing-room and up the stairs . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , the predominant trend trait is a taste for extrovert , over-the-top dressing , with glittery glam clothes going down a storm for evening , and hyper-smart executive-look suits being snapped up for daytime wear . |
| 11 | ‘ By murdering President Rene Muawad , his assassins chose to strike down a man of dialogue and reconciliation , ’ the secretary-general , Ms Catherine Lalumiere , said . |
| 12 | After scouring through several reports , he ran his forefinger down a column of figures and discovered the facts behind the old woman 's plight : commodity prices are plunging . |
| 13 | A blue and white mug , half filled with cold coffee , weighted down a stack of papers . |
| 14 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 15 | ACTORS will abseil down a quarry as part of an unusual open-air performance of Shakespeare 's Macbeth this summer . |
| 16 | Then you laid down a bed of branches . |
| 17 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 18 | Some of the episodes and dialogue are intentionally comic — as when the son helps a friendly local chief to shake off some warriors from a neighbouring tribe by bringing down a swarm of bees on them . |
| 19 | I played down a ball from Merv Hughes . |
| 20 | When a series of such images , running vertically down a strip of film , is projected at 24 frames a second ( fps ) in the cinema , or 25 fps on ( British ) TV , an illusion of movement is created because of a retinal property known as ‘ persistence of vision ’ , which in normal life enables us to perceive the world as a continuous flow , not an infinite series of separate moments . |
| 21 | or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight |
| 22 | He opened his mouth to speak but his words were drowned by a volley of musket fire nearby and the crash of a round shot which brought down a shower of plaster on the heads of his audience . |
| 23 | Pull down a loop of yarn at the edge and knit 8 rows on the ribber only . |
| 24 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 25 | Mel Chin ( USA , b. 1951 ) laid down a field of plants which extract heavy metals from the ground by a process called hyperaccumulation , in his ‘ Revival field Netherlands : simultaneous replicated field experiments ’ . |
| 26 | Bass , for example , requires a tenant to put down a deposit of £1,000 before he can even contemplate arbitration . |
| 27 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 28 | He and Cavagna sent kangaroos , those champions among springers , down a runway of force plates . |
| 29 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 30 | As they scurry forward , they rub the ground with their bodies , laying down a trail of scent that others behind will be able to follow . |