Example sentences of "[adv prt] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could you elaborate on that a little ? ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | We were working with the council at ten pence and hour so we thought we were going to improve on that a wee bit . |
| 3 | Erm if if I can elaborate on on that a a little further . |
| 4 | Could you expand on that a little ? |
| 5 | Because in a group you y y y you get this erm the individual 's ego and they , th they take on this the super ego of the , of a leader so they get this transparent idea so if a person got a stronger ego , then they 're , then they 're less likely to lose that and take on somebody else 's ideas . |
| 6 | You ca n't cure one evil by bringing in another a thousand times more pernicious . ’ |
| 7 | He arrived on the 18th tee needing a par to get into a play-off and , with an extraordinary demonstration of the tension involved , jumped up and down half a dozen times as his tee shot headed inexorably for the bunker on the left . |
| 8 | The next involved abseilling down half a huge rock before dropping into a pool with a waterfall close by . |
| 9 | His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor . |
| 10 | It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep . |
| 11 | The hundred shares index closed down half a point at twenty-eight , twelve point six . |
| 12 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 13 | And the videotape of Cal and me playing Bottom and Titania in A Midsummer Night 's Dream last year , with us collapsing in giggles when she tripped over a cobweb and brought down half the lights . |
| 14 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |
| 15 | Then you had a very sharp knife , er and you used to cut down half the what we called the face of the stack , you know , half the width of it . |
| 16 | They 're tying down half the British Army , for God 's sake . |
| 17 | For example , the effect of holding in memory a visual pattern made up by randomly filling in half the cells of a matrix ( with either 3 , 4 or 5 cells per side ) did not produce " general activation " in the same way as words were found to do . |
| 18 | I think if we ever need to fill in half an hour we know what to do ! |
| 19 | The debate which we will have will ensure that the facts are established , that a majority of Scots realise the dangers of going down such a dangerous road . ’ |
| 20 | A man would have to be an idiot to turn down such a chance . |
| 21 | Floating down such a treacherous waterway in a barrel is n't my idea of fun , especially when it 's full of watersnakes , ducks , cannon-wielding dragons and all manner of flotsam and jetsam conspiring to sink his fragile craft . |
| 22 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 23 | This special status of a visitor springs from the common law recognising the right of the founder to lay down such a special law subject to adjudication only by a special judge , the visitor . |
| 24 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 25 | My muddled mind smiled vaguely at the idea of Moses turning down such a long-running client . |
| 26 | I do not rule that out completely , but I believe that we should consider the matter carefully before going down such a route . |
| 27 | Come on people : How many of you would turn down such a contract if it were offered to you . |
| 28 | They do n't see why you should bring down such a beautiful tree . |
| 29 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 30 | To ease my conscience , for every parking I bought an indoor pot plant , so that by now we have a veritable jungle growing along all the window sills , crawling up the walls and wrapping their tendrils around the television set . |