Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 2 | When two 2nd Order rivers join ( not a 1st and a 2nd ) the much larger river is 3rd Order , and so on in a hierarchy of sizes . |
| 3 | Pickerage was in bed in two shakes — again unlike him — and apparently deep in a book under the sheets . |
| 4 | If I might be so bold , for one who missed out on so much ( and not just in a cricket sense ) , I would offer a few words of advice . |
| 5 | and not like in a shop , you know , from nine in the morning till six at night |
| 6 | Had she really agreed to live if not exactly in a wilderness , yet certainly in a place which gave every appearance of being truly rural ? |
| 7 | He launched a great shout of : ‘ Espérance Percy ! ’ behind him , waved a hand at the squire who carried his guidon , settled his lance , and plunged headlong down into the river at the ford they had marked out for the centre , and out again in a flurry of muddy spray on the levels beyond , with the whole company of his knights and squires and mounted men-at-arms hurtling after him . |
| 8 | And what I find interesting is that it 's the sheer vitality of the English sound — it 's not just the Liverpool sound , it 's the English sound — the vitality , the sensuality , the letting one 's hair down quality , that is exactly what the Continentals admired in Dunstable , and strangely enough in a way what Elgar 's got — this incredible sort of desire not to be over formal and to break down certain formal barriers which seems to be so characteristic of English music . |
| 9 | Well keep them in the house , and maybe once in a while , sort of once every two months , just put a couple of drops in maybe Saturday night or Sunday night . |
| 10 | The fact that the teacher finds that the child has spelt a word correctly in one context and then perhaps in a sentence or two later may misspell the word , makes the teacher think that this is a question of carelessness , where we know , in fact , that is a feature of dylexia — that you may be able to get a spelling correct in one context and yet you will misspell it , as it were , a few moments later . |
| 11 | With this 100 per cent jib she 's powerful and relatively upright in a breeze |
| 12 | At every transaction he writes copiously and painstakingly slowly in a book . |
| 13 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 14 | I know in our case , and therefore probably in a lot that it is n't always possible , they 'll always find a way in , but if there was some perhaps advice to people it might bring down this number of complaints , that you could perhaps do before the wasp season begins , I do n't know whether that 's a possibility or not . |
| 15 | The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists . |
| 16 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 17 | Of course , people do act out of character — but not often in a matter involving almost the whole of a man 's private fortune . |
| 18 | De Man makes the texts of Nietzsche , Rousseau , Rilke and Proust speak sometimes in citation , but more often in a mode akin to free indirect speech . |
| 19 | The same themes , the same subjects and poses are reinterpreted over and over again , often in some completely original way , but sometimes also in a manner reminiscent of a previous phase ; any novelty is eventually assimilated to what had preceded it ; nothing is ever discarded . |
| 20 | Pakistan 's opener Aamer Sohail had played in 17 one-day internationals before this tour , but never yet in a Test match . |
| 21 | ‘ Estimated risk ’ will be used for the cases where a person is making an estimate of risk while not actually in a situation to experience the risk they are estimating . |
| 22 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 23 | Any one person may hold aspects of each together , though not necessarily in a way which is successfully integrated . |