Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm then it goes on about quite a bit of this Erm perception and decoding of the speech style er talking about er Martin and Giles . |
| 2 | Other symptoms were deemed to be present if they occurred on at least a quarter of the days or occasions , except that passage of mucus was taken as a symptom if it had ever occurred ( this being normal clinical practice ) . |
| 3 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 4 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 5 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 6 | Zurich has benefited in its search for profitable target markets from having a strong international network , built up over nearly a century , with operations in 40 countries . |
| 7 | It adds up to quite an incentive for the ‘ King of the Park ’ Kenny McKinstry who will be bidding for an unprecedented sixth victory this year , and a second in a row in his Kaliber Subaru Legacy . |
| 8 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 9 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |
| 10 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 11 | Distillation may be carried out in either a batch process , using a pot still , or a continuous process , using a patent or Coffey still . |
| 12 | One set of doors led through to where a sign marked ‘ The Studio ’ took me down a flight of stairs to the basement beneath , the cosiness and warmth of which was a welcomed contrast to the watery excesses above . |
| 13 | I came down with quite a thud , and hit my head on the stair post . ’ |
| 14 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 15 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 16 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 17 | She only did , them drama people came up with quite a lot ideas |
| 18 | You were out here swimming around with not a stitch on . |
| 19 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 20 | Efforts to find a suitable site for the Vintage & Rotary Wing Collection , with workshops in Stoke-on-Trent , have been going on for quite a while , but the reaction has always been negative — we even had the comment that ‘ We do n't want an aircraft scrapyard here ! ’ |
| 21 | IT really annoyed me to see leaders of the public service unions on TV going on about how a pay freeze would be unacceptable to their members . |
| 22 | She 's not Jewish but she erm was going on about how a lot of Channing people had started going and stuff and they 're all JPs basically . |
| 23 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 24 | ‘ Hang on in there a minute , my lovely . |
| 25 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 26 | Title V rules out for ever a return to the alternative : a degree of foreign-policy alignment reflecting the reality of diverging national interests and a European Community whose members express their friendship and community of interests by cooperating through the most effective available means . |
| 27 | But 39-year-old Patrese clambered out with just a pair of bruised knees and trembling hands . |
| 28 | Eh she was away I think when , or she 'd gone out when called in upon here a fortnight ago . |
| 29 | They were immensely hairy , had breasts that hung down at least a yard and were used by the males as beasts of burden . |
| 30 | I walked through to where a Chief-Corporal was standing behind a table . |