Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 2 | It might , it might be though cutting the hedges back a little bit . |
| 3 | Variable wing geometry would cut the dangers down a little … but there are still CATs up there which could tear anything like a conventional aircraft apart . ’ |
| 4 | The next stage as soon as you find time is to sit down with your language helper and play the text back a phrase at a time in order to transcribe it . |
| 5 | That narrows the field down a bit , if it 's correct . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're probably going to set the taxpayer back a couple of million , unless these things are made of plate steel . ’ |
| 7 | What we are talking about is moving the responsibility down a stage so that there is a system in place that recognises individual club players and helps them when they move up . |
| 8 | Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago . |
| 9 | Callers were told to enter the building up a back staircase , avoiding the downstairs shop , which had no connection with the parlour . |
| 10 | I had the hair up a bit and I liked Siouxsie & The Banshees — does that make me a goth ? ’ |
| 11 | If you injected cold air you 'd actually chill the furnace down a bit . |
| 12 | The answer is to send the light down a pipe which guides it round corners . |
| 13 | DESPITE AMERICA LETTING THE SIDE DOWN A BIT , SAGE GROUP PROSPERS ON BACK OF NEW PRODUCTS , ACQUISITIONS |
| 14 | took the kids up a couple of times and then Mick and I have been up there with the |
| 15 | That 's when you thrust the ring back an to the dead woman 's finger . ’ |
| 16 | I phone Andy and confirm it 's still all right to visit , then I ring Eddie and get the next three days off , tell the cops — they 're based at Fettes , though the DI has gone back down to London , and no they 're still not giving me back my new portable yet — and ( after I 've cleaned the car up a bit ) head out of the city and across the grey bridge in a day of squally , buffeting rain that has the bridge 's 40-limit signs on , high-sided vehicles banned and the 205 dancing its Dunlops sideways as the gusts hit . |
| 17 | Culley reeled the tape back a little and listened to the question again . |
| 18 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 19 | The Irish Ladies Hockey Union are now considering staging the Cup Final on May 22 and moving the play-offs back a fortnight . |
| 20 | White Papers on the privatisation of British Coal and the setting up a national lottery are also expected . |
| 21 | Treaty by setting up a company within the meaning of article 58 , whereas in this case the very right of nationals of other member states to take part in the setting up a company in the United Kingdom is restricted by the residence requirement . |
| 22 | He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail . |
| 23 | Robyn leans across the passenger seat and winds the window down a little way . |
| 24 | I stopped the car in the entrance to the farm and would the window down an inch or two . |
| 25 | Yeah , I know it still needs treatment but I mean it 'll try and get the swelling down a bit . |
| 26 | ( Incidentally , a comment in the Promontoire hut book by the last British party to note their presence a year ago recorded laconically , the rewards for following Brailsford and Collomb in their first choice route to the hut up a series of Grade II chimneys : the last pitch is the drain for the outside toilet ! ) . |
| 27 | it sort of brings the ceiling down a little bit as well |
| 28 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 29 | He wound his way through us as we sat fascinated at the sight as Geordie tiptoed down the beach towards the sea , his top part a deep tan , from the waist down a dirty white colour . |
| 30 | We went back , past the hall down a long , stone passageway to Peckle 's chamber . |