Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man left paralysed from the waist down after a parachuting acce accident two years ago , attempts the World 's first solo paraplegic sky dive . |
| 2 | No erm it was just it was just like a little er spot on his ear and the vet sent it off to find out what it was |
| 3 | I would n't er b just at a brief gla glance I did n't er agree with the er drawing schedule . |
| 4 | that 's something else which you might find , a lot of the time in er literature about interaction with children , you might find that er where parents are asking their children to do something , like if they 're playing a game , you might find some You 'll find that mothers and fathers talk differently to sons and daughters er so you start off with a direct ac action like Put that one there , if they 're playing lego or something , straight prom Put that on there down to er Would n't it be a good idea to put that on there down to Could you put that on there or Let's put it on there . |
| 5 | I was lucky I went straight into a trusty 's job , and I could work at weekends as well , and I earned good money : £2.63 a week . |
| 6 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 7 | It kind of builds Gandhi up into a great er figure , as it were , ignoring his feet of clay , erm , which he definitely had . |
| 8 | You want to be very careful er , Mr Chairman , how we put out erm , information , I mean , let's face it , you know , you start sort of raising a lot of hairs if you 're not careful and if , if , even if it 's totally irrelevant people will latch on to a particular com comment and make it their own . |
| 9 | Increased spatial polarisation of the British electorate since 1955 is frequently remarked upon : it is usually associated with what is commonly referred to as a growing north:south divide , and sometimes with a growing urban:rural division too . |
| 10 | She works closely with a single A&R Manager and writes weekly reports on everything he sees and hears — which includes the few dozen tapes arriving at Elektra 's offices every week . |
| 11 | Whether the increased release of the precursor in type II diabetes is due primarily to a low β cell mass or to insulin resistance is unclear , but the serum concentration of 32–33 split proinsulin in the men reported on by Hales and Barker correlated inversely with their body weight at 12 months . |
| 12 | You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine 's milking tackle perched on your bonce . |
| 13 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |