Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not this one ; it rides easy with only a trace of load-carrying compromise . |
| 2 | So it , it , it 's a , it goes much beyond merely a kind of er , cliche , of saying , all people can be sometimes good or people can be sometimes bad , and it tells you about the specific way in which this th this comes about . |
| 3 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 4 | Of course , we have not done everthing in just a year , nor have we taken things forward in every aspect as much as we would have wished . |
| 5 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 6 | It had 300 residential places ( and had had those for only a year ) . |
| 7 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 8 | And I carried on doing that for quite a number of years and I managed to be voted onto the Edinburgh committee . |
| 9 | Heather Countley dialled 999 at 12.35pm a minute after the car accident involving her son outside her home at Peghorn Lodge , Harwood-in-Teesdale , near Barnard Castle . |
| 10 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 11 | Then it all went black for quite a while . |
| 12 | ‘ One sight of this boy here — this gift from God — and I felt all at once a burning in my arm . |
| 13 | There appeared to be a determinate , stable , inverse relationship between the rate of change of money wages and the unemployment rate which had continued to hold good for almost a century . |
| 14 | Well Lamarckism is named after er , Jean Baptiste Antoine de Monet , better known to us as Lamarck , and the , the prime notion of Lamarckism , according in Darwin , let's try and get that over there a bit more is evolution by will . |
| 15 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 16 | I , I maybe fall asleep for maybe an hour or two and then I 'm woken and I 'm coughing all the time . |
| 17 | These had been kept intact for almost a century by Louisa Greenough Powers Ibbotson and her descendants . |
| 18 | A few years later , in 1912 , La Fresnaye , attempting to describe a certain aspect of Cézanne 's work and to assess his influence on contemporary painting said : ‘ Each object , in one of the late canvases , has ceased to exist only in itself , and becomes little by little a cell within the whole organism of the painting . |