Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasant walk down a gently sloping hill past the toll house . |
| 2 | Adams set off an a solo run down the left reminiscent of his days at Leeds , and in the end Southampton 's adventure was rewarded leaving Ipswich with nothing to show for an entertaining afternoon 's work . |
| 3 | And as good as a complete set off the vice — the metal had the thinnest possible film of oil . |
| 4 | A few years back the building was used as a warehouse for chemicals , before that it was a BMW garage . |
| 5 | This time the protagonist is the Slovanian , Slavks Sveticic , and his route a direct way up a grey rocky pillar on the Croz Spur of the Grandes Jorasses . |
| 6 | This descends alongside the ridge wall over High Pike and Low Pike and then diverges due south in a direct line down a steep slope to Bruntscar . |
| 7 | It is best reached by continuing along the road , now unenclosed , until near Leck Fell House when a steep scramble up the hillside ends in the company of the three massive cairns that will have plagued the curiosity since they first came in sight earlier . |
| 8 | A steep scramble down an ivy-covered slope leads one into a place of great natural beauty alive with the earth spirit force . |
| 9 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 10 | The tool can only be turned on by pushing a lock-off switch on the rear handle with the thumb , whilst depressing the two triggers on the front and rear handles . |
| 11 | We did 0–60mph in 5secs in the Rocket … drove a Volvo we loved … lived with a Ferrari for a month … built our own Caterham 7 … took a Lamborghini Diablo down a German autobahn at 201.4mph — and test the new Ford Escort , and liked it . |
| 12 | try a tiny bit out the corner . |
| 13 | She stayed near him till he slept , went out into the dark hall , switched on the light with pride and with the knowledge of what that little act meant , what it had cost , would cost ; she pressed a tiny switch on the wall , and electrons obediently flowed through cables , because the woman in the Electricity had so ordered it |
| 14 | She found a dark crevice up an entry leading to a court , and crouched down , head on knees . |
| 15 | Wait until a ferret fitted with a transmitter has taken up a fixed position down a burrow . |
| 16 | Arrangements are being made , we are informed , for those of us who , oddly enough , prefer to have our correspondence marked with its specific place of origin , to deposit our post in a wee box up a close or in a back street away from the main mail collection points . |
| 17 | To illustrate this , here 's a II/V sequence down a cycle of 4ths , dealing with one string set at a time . |
| 18 | The main prey of predatory birds are the hundreds of different rodent species and the vast majority of these have evolved a protection system based on a quick scamper down a tunnel . |
| 19 | The Roaches Valkyrie is one of the longest routes in the area , finding a sneaky way up a superb buttress with engrossing climbing , good protection and exemplary rock . |
| 20 | A gentle breeze helped nudge us up the first incline — then the next , and the next , before we reached a tricky scramble round a rocky peak . |
| 21 | So we lost , but went down fighting , and had a good night out an all . |
| 22 | We reached the wall , and had a ceremonial walk up a half-mile section which has been restored . |
| 23 | A short scramble over the rocks takes you to our secret spot , Mermaid 's cove , this is truly a place of magic and tranquillity ideal for that really quiet swim or sunbathe . |
| 24 | When their fighting ceased , she sat astride his chest , gradually sliding down to his toes like a small girl down a banister . |
| 25 | The BAA intends that a qualification scheme will soon be in place , with a graded multi-tier system of certificates available , from Assistant Supervisor ( where one is merely allowed to assist with abseiling a small group down a short drop ) through the Abseil Instructor and Abseil Coach . |
| 26 | If , on the other hand , it is continuously generated in a flowing system — gas or liquid travelling at a uniform rate down a tube — its subsequent decay establishes steady-state concentrations at points down-stream from the region of generation . |
| 27 | There followed a day of more mixed climbing and some grade V rock , and then , after a second bivouac , a tiring slog up a huge hanging glacier and an endless snow arête . |
| 28 | She died three years ago in a tragic fall down a flight of stairs . |
| 29 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
| 30 | Then it would have been twenty-five metres of snow slide and a final trip down a thirty-metre vertical chasm into a mix of ice and ice-cold water . |