Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 2 | The buildings were transformed rather successfully into a gallery for Bohemian art by František Cubr and Josef Pilar , in the 1960s . |
| 3 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 4 | Come on in for a cup of tea … " |
| 5 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 6 | In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals . |
| 7 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 8 | Which brings us on nicely to a discussion of pyroclastic rocks themselves . |
| 9 | Athenagoras , the Syracusan demagogue , is made by Thucydides ( vi.38 ) to say that Syracuse ‘ is only rarely in a state of internal peace ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ More wine ? ’ she asked , throwing her coat carelessly on to a sofa in the drawing-room . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’ |
| 13 | The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy . |
| 14 | You 'll be all right in a couple of days , they said , and in her disorientation Chesarynth thought , Days are geography not time . |
| 15 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 16 | Only Mr Kenneth Baker , secretary of state for education , said promptly , ’ more money and put in successfully for a rise in the science-research budget . |
| 17 | So he was only in for a couple of days then ? |
| 18 | They played together co-operatively with a set of cars but once Tom decided that one of the cars was his favourite Sue quietly took it when he was n't looking . |
| 19 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 20 | If you waited long enough after a game at Oakwell , you could travel home on the same bus as your hero . |
| 21 | This alternative view , a member of a small family of related although differing views , follows on naturally enough from a consideration of Hume 's . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , he did much better as a collector of pictures from earlier centuries than of the works of his own contemporaries or friends . |
| 23 | I I certainly did n't go in in in in with a rank on my shoulder , I went in as a recruit . |
| 24 | An introduction to a DDL for each type of system is discussed below along with a description of the ways in which the data could be accessed and updated using the Data Manipulation Language ( DML ) . |
| 25 | I I I have to say that I I I I 'm not enthusiastic about using this which is so obviously at a report in support of the particular locations , to look objectively at the criteria . |
| 26 | She was sick with wretchedness , convinced she had only herself to blame — and of course the devastating effect Paula had on men — but still puzzled that it could have ended so suddenly without a word of explanation on his part . |
| 27 | Its affair with America 's McCaw Cellular ended less unhappily with a profit of over £200m . |
| 28 | The only real surprise about Danny Rampling 's fine debut single ‘ I Hate Hate ’ is that it 's taken so long for a DJ of his reputation to commit himself to vinyl . |
| 29 | How far would Rock Hudson have got if his true proclivities , hidden so long by a succession of girlfriends provided by the studios , had been known ? |
| 30 | While setting up the calm surface of village life in a realistic manner , the film does so only as a contrast to the savagery that ensues : a priest is shot while making a stand against ‘ the enemies and oppressors of mankind ’ , the Post Office lady kills a German with an axe and is promptly bayonetted herself , and the vicar 's daughter disposes of the Quisling squire , to whom she had been amorously linked . |