Example sentences of "and [prep] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was dressed in navy and white , her ivory skin slightly tanned and for once minus make-up . |
| 2 | Landis & Gyr 's new system in the new Forte Hotel in Exeter , Devon , for example , is usually set for guest and function rooms to be controlled at 20°C between 6am and 10am and from 4pm to midnight . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're bloody choosing the rooms already , ’ said another voice , deep and loud , and from somewhere above ceiling level , and Preston looked up and saw the man who must be Louis , hanging over the banisters on the landing . |
| 4 | Somewhere a different bell begins to sound midnight , and from all over town , far and near , other bells join in . |
| 5 | Via sink , bath or lavatory , all these cleaners disappear down the drain and that usually leads to the sewer , on to sewage treatment plant and from there to sea or river . |
| 6 | and from there of course the bus service was erm much better . |
| 7 | These breeches reached to just below the knees and from there on down she sported green stockings with turn-up tops , which displayed her calf muscles to perfection . |
| 8 | Donald approached Waitrose with military precision , working his way steadily through Farinaceous , Vegetables ( Salad ) , Vegetables ( Root , Loose and packed ) , poultry , Game , Continental Cuts and Mince , and from there by way of Fish ( Frozen ) and Fish ( Fresh ) to Spices , Pickles and Non-refrigerated Ready-packed Sauces , through to pet food , Pet Accessories and Household Cleaners . |
| 9 | Under this heading in the accounts are the costs of the transport of the dressed copper ore , from the mine to the quay on the lake side , and from there by boat to the copper house at Nibthwaite at the foot of the lake . |
| 10 | This practice has been followed for over 300 years at High Bridge End , St. John 's in the Vale , and until recently at Adamthwaite in the Howgills , and it is referred to in Langdale also . |
| 11 | I think a lot of the modern maths that we 've , we 've heard about is still very much aimed at the brighter children who were going to do O-level and , and beyond even in mathematics . |
| 12 | In fact , and at least at present , Ludens had little reason to complain since he remained , with Marcus , the closest person , not exactly the beloved disciple , but the most valuable agent . |
| 13 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 14 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |