Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 2 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 3 | Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 5 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 6 | Some years earlier , the same issues had been opened up from a more consciously theological angle by the Halle professor Martin Kähler . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's nearly twelve o'bloody clock , ’ Billy slurred back from a now almost horizontal position , ‘ ai n't you never had enough ? |
| 8 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 9 | Er , it is not just an additional committee , on the part of the West region , it is in fact the total reorganisation of a number of meetings , and getting down to a far more business-like thing . |
| 10 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 11 | But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies . |
| 12 | That stacks up to a quite well specified machine , and you 'll find file operations , particularly , slow on a 20MHz SX if you opt for the HPFS . |
| 13 | By then governments may have woken up to a yet more radical option . |
| 14 | If the period is too short , little smoothing will be achieved ; if too long , the irregularities will be flattened out to an almost straight horizontal line and there will be considerable gaps at each end of the series . |
| 15 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 16 | Just prior to Twelfth Night in the January of 1483 , Anne went down with a not too serious attack of the prevalent sweating sickness . |
| 17 | It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep . |
| 18 | The buyer might end up with a much more expensive house which had a better kitchen . |
| 19 | We can make our ‘ tree diagram ’ grow to look like this : If we then look at this phrase in the context of a longer phrase ‘ twenty places further back ’ , and build up the ‘ further back ’ part in a similar way , we would end up with an even more elaborate structure : |
| 20 | Auer was suspended in a hanging basket , his dead legs dangling beneath him , reaching out with a surreally long scoop to dredge the chips into a central sinkhole . |
| 21 | Measurements were taken and delivered along with a very roughly drawn sketch . |
| 22 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 23 | The theory is worked out with a perhaps necessarily cavalier attitude to traditional assumptions , including those relating to the chronology of the plays . |
| 24 | They may twitch , move around to an apparently more comfortable position , but their eyes remain closed and they remain unresponsive . |
| 25 | They can be blotted down for an even more subtle finish , if you prefer , then topped with a dewy lipgloss . |
| 26 | Yeah , she come back as a bloody well , thirteen year old was a five year old and she come back |
| 27 | Ellwood said , ‘ So just stick around for a little longer , yeah ? |
| 28 | So if we hear any screeching noises or bells , which er do n't turn off after a very very short period of time , we are to er make our way in an orderly fashion to the er base of the staircase of the fire escape , following the fire escape er signs . |
| 29 | Edward , resentful , set off in an even more dour frame of mind than usual . |
| 30 | Old victories are savoured ; ancient defeats glossed over , and the Party 's leaders held up to a not always affectionate scrutiny . |