Example sentences of "drop [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 2 | These vines overlook a small north-south running valley , on the other side of which a 170-metre high spur of vines drops down to the northwestern edge of the village . |
| 3 | ‘ Mind you , they never actually say when , and you did rather get dropped in at the deep end . |
| 4 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 5 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 6 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 7 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 8 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 9 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 10 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 11 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 12 | Japanese houses have dropped out as the sinking Tokyo stockmarket drags down their capital ; Nomura also lost face when the issue that it lead-managed last year for GPA , an Irish aircraft-leasing firm , fell through . |
| 13 | The analysis concludes that 1 million households and more than 2½ million people have dropped out of the legal aid net in the two years since Lord Mackay of Clashfern became Lord Chancellor . |
| 14 | He had proposed the visit to Burford on 17 May 1968 but had dropped out of the ill-fated return journey . |
| 15 | and finally , our amblings from Kimblesworth cricket club a few weeks back erred in suggesting that Maltby , near Thornaby , dropped out of the National Village Cup because they thought Kimblesworth a bit far . |
| 16 | KENNETH Clarke appears to have dropped out of the smart betting for the succession to Mrs T , no doubt because he has been landed with the mucky end of the Cabinet stick . |
| 17 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 18 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 19 | He said nothing and she went , with smooth , unflustered movements , to the couch and dropped on to the yielding cushions and prayed for Oliver to come and quickly . |
| 20 | I dropped on to the wet doorstep , worn out and hopeless , prepared to die . |
| 21 | Then , on the second day , we dropped down into the lowest part of the crater to reach the hot springs . |
| 22 | Gloucester won 14 -3 and Nottingham dropped down to the second division … this time around the Kingsholm men are looking over their shoulders … but those relegation worries were eased last Saturday with that 18-6 win over London Irish … tonight it 's a club match no league points to be won or lost but Gloucester want every win they can get |
| 23 | Our path dropped down to the relative calm of the sea shore , edging craggy inlets beneath overhanging cliff tops . |
| 24 | She dropped down on the other side of the sweetheart plant from Rain , bowed her head , rested her right hand lightly on the keys , shut her eyes tight and concentrated . |
| 25 | Philip dropped down in the old bracken . |
| 26 | GUATEMALA : During his visit to London recently Bruce Harris , executive director of Casa Alianza ( Covenant House ) , a centre in Guatemala City which cares for street children , dropped in on the new Guatemalan Ambassador . |
| 27 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 28 | He dropped in at the still extant Paperback Shop . |
| 29 | Ace dropped back into the empty chamber . |
| 30 | Only 25 of the forty aircraft entered were ready to start , and then several dropped out on the first leg due to mechanical problems . |