Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
2 | The other prisoners in the compound supported their stand as just and reasonable whereupon some fifty warders were assembled and carried Orchin , Richmond and McCready bodily to where a police officer was waiting . |
3 | Maxim bypassed the village completely map-reading George up a third road above the farm and they left the car there with perhaps a quarter-mile walk down into the valley and up again to the cottage . |
4 | After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen . |
5 | ‘ We ought to get Karen here at least a week before she leaves , ’ he said to Celia that weekend , ‘ so she knows the routine . ’ |
6 | He 'll be able to return to his Florida oceanside home in just a couple of hours . |
7 | And er so I mean it 's you know , I am a politician I mean you know , it 's in the blood I 've b been in the in the House of Commons now for about a quarter of a century . |
8 | All three have been attending Medau classes regularly for over a year now an have taken part in rallies etc . |
9 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
10 | They do the operation and keep the woman there for about an hour then give her 50 rupees . |
11 | French names like New Man and Rodier Hommes were innovators in the 1970s , offering men a complete coordinated collection instead of just a range of suits or a collection of shirts . |
12 | Liebermann , so Vincent had heard , had once established his base there for quite a while . |
13 | His presence there for over a year was a useful lever for Russia , which therefore replaced China as a contender for dominant influence in the peninsula . |
14 | ‘ You 're going to have to have a fairly visible presence there for quite a while to put the authoritarian opponents on notice that we mean business . ’ |
15 | In fact I think oddly enough I think the way that the Daily Mirror Trustees are now organised with postal balance and representatives classes , I think you know is almost a model now of how a set of trustees should run , you know , they but they have got a very good scheme of how they do actually elect their trustees from various groups of of members . |
16 | A PROBE was under way today into how a vintage jet crashed into moorland , killing its pilot . |
17 | ‘ A bloody good thing or our childhood would have been a misery instead of just a bore . ’ |
18 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
19 | Cassie stayed at her family home for nearly a week , but on the Monday , with her parents due to leave the following morning , she packed her bags and prepared to go . |