Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv prt] [art] [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 | The entrance , attained by a scramble over a boulder , immediately opens into a straight passage with a high roof providing very easy walking for 250 yards ; then the roof level drops and further progress is possible only by crawling . |
| 5 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ Greed , cynicism , the rotters and the agents have spoiled it , ’ McIlvanney reflects bitterly , ‘ the rotters ’ being the trade term for journalists trained to sniff out sensation or scandal , or failing that , to drop a cheque down a hole and see who bites . |
| 8 | I 've ridden a bike up a oneway street once , but I did n't get caught |
| 9 | He flicked a switch on a console and said . |
| 10 | Well usually erm modern telephones have got a switch on the back and you can switch them to pulse or tone |
| 11 | Well you just switch it it 's a switch on the top . |
| 12 | He snapped a switch on the wall socket . |
| 13 | The figure pressed a switch on the wall and the bars of the cage disappeared . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There could be a switch on the bench . |
| 17 | You 've got the notes a b c d e f sharp g sharp a coming down a g sharp f sharp , well it 's not the bloody minor scale then is it ? |
| 18 | Anyway then I said are they interested in this quiz night , and she says I have n't go she says she 'd ask Jan , I said well give me a ring back a bit later . |
| 19 | The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem . |
| 20 | I 'm not talking about shoving a prick up a five-year-old , which is beastly , or years of sexual dominance , but just a little playing around ? ’ |
| 21 | And a pound out the till ! |
| 22 | Such activities may spontaneously develop ideas of the degree of push needed to get a car up a slope with cries of , ‘ Push harder — that was too gentle ! ’ |
| 23 | No , a pick up a penguin |
| 24 | A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today |
| 25 | Mother says if I do n't get a move on the line will die out . ’ |
| 26 | It is important to know what the acceleration of a body down a surface would be without friction as a start to explaining its actual acceleration . |
| 27 | There was no sign of the Transit , so I hung a right back the way I 'd come . |
| 28 | No it 's Tracy was telling David , and David said David was saying same thing , David wants to well like was saying this morning to Neil , we 'll have to get a meeting up a go . |
| 29 | There are too many to throw away all at once , so I take a handful out every day and hide them in someone 's garbage can . |
| 30 | It was better to stop every day 's travel early so as to have good energy for raising a tent , digging an igloo , building a platform up a tree . |