Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's stroll a bit down the Boulevard de Waterloo , ’ Marler suggested . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only a yard and a bit out the front . |
| 3 | He met his own fate when the wizard Thomas of Ercildoune instructed Soulis 's enemies how to capture him and boil him to death in a cauldron on the Nine Stane Rig , a Bronze Age stone circle which can be reached by a scramble up the hillside above the modern B6399 between Newcastleton and Hawick . |
| 4 | and said can I have some money for me tonight , I said well I was gon na get a cheque out the Abbey National , he said oh no he said work day to day and I thought oh |
| 5 | Well usually erm modern telephones have got a switch on the back and you can switch them to pulse or tone |
| 6 | Well you just switch it it 's a switch on the top . |
| 7 | He snapped a switch on the wall socket . |
| 8 | The figure pressed a switch on the wall and the bars of the cage disappeared . |
| 9 | He flicked a switch on the percolator , which was set up in a recess above one of the work-benches , and reached for a fresh mug . |
| 10 | Tucked under the grill is the hotplate light , operated by a switch on the grill canopy , which ensures that your grill and hotplate are always clearly illuminated . |
| 11 | There could be a switch on the bench . |
| 12 | And a pound out the till ! |
| 13 | Mother says if I do n't get a move on the line will die out . ’ |
| 14 | There was no sign of the Transit , so I hung a right back the way I 'd come . |
| 15 | This is true of the Great Little Trains with Bala lake apparently very badly hit , the Ffestiniog being quiet and the same can be said of the V of R in Aberystwyth where for most of June early July just 4 coaches serviced the two trains a day up the valley . |
| 16 | And he give them all a ticket out the machine and |
| 17 | Having a drink out the bottom . |
| 18 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 19 | In the final stages of this journey , Ease Gill can be seen half a mile down the slope on the right . |
| 20 | Straggling , catching up with one another , keeping more or less together , they had wandered over half a mile down the fields , always following the course of the brook . |
| 21 | Three , no twice a week down the Fen . |
| 22 | No , I shall have to turn on a dress out the club book where it says about |
| 23 | At the risk of being regarded as a gardening Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes , it is a good idea to have a magnifying glass in your pocket when you take a turn around the roses . |
| 24 | The Youngs took a turn around the green before returning home . |
| 25 | ‘ I was about to go for a turn around the village , ’ said Hope , switching the subject , as he thought , adroitly . |
| 26 | The big man arose from the bed and took a turn around the caravan , humming to himself . |
| 27 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 28 | And you probably would not choose to spend a fortnight up the Amazon with either . |
| 29 | A year down the line Pitcher , who after all is chief executive , feels unable to confirm if van Geest is officially permanent or not . |
| 30 | So although erm , current rates of unemployment are very high , you may be prepared to erm , to , to accept unemployment in the short term , you know , because a year down the line , you may well be able to get employment . |