Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She 'll be all right for a few hours . |
2 | We should be all right for a few moments as it is deeper water ; we can then make for the beach , hopefully avoiding the big dumping surf . ’ |
3 | Pat said quickly , " Well , we can go to 45 But surely it is all right for a few minutes here . " |
4 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
5 | It was rare to have six Black gays working politically and personally together in the same workplace and that helped me integrate my identity as a Black lesbian . |
6 | erm Anybody that 's well-organized , good at clerical operations , preferably can type a little bit even though , if only perhaps with a few fingers , erm would make a perfectly computer operator for a small firm . |
7 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
8 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
9 | He said : ‘ He took a chance coming in here , I was only away for a few minutes . |
10 | She made a mental note to check the tariff later with the receptionist — there would be little point in living so comfortably for a few weeks if the bill swallowed most of her wages at the end of it . |
11 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
12 | so like after a few days I can her saying , oh , I 'm gon na have to go , I 'm gon na have to feed dog and they 're having it put down , they 're having it put down . |
13 | Mr you 'll spoi you 'll spoil us when I saw this tonight I thought we I got ta say something because Martin is coming up with the er same motion as it was last time , it was not much different so probably with the same reply 's got ta be made and that is that the Labour party is not the caring party , everyone here , I 'm sure the Liberals as well as the Conservatives care we are a caring party as much as you are and we are concerned , we are concerned about , we are concerned about |
14 | It was the latest blow in what has proved an unhappy first season so far for the former England striker and Grampus in the new J.League 10-club championship , launched on May 15 . |
15 | Fortunately there are now many people who think this is wrong , and they do so mainly for the same reason , that is , because the ‘ god ’ spoken of has never been explained in a manner which they themselves can easily understand and believe in . |
16 | Cadence Design Systems Inc warns that turnover for the first quarter will be down substantially from the same period last year and it will likely see a loss for the quarter . |
17 | ‘ Katherine , you 'll be pleased to know that I 'm only here for a few days . |
18 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
19 | The roots of all this , it was agreed , lay deep in British history — perhaps in the moral nihilism of the 1960s , perhaps in the collectivism of the 1940s , perhaps in the decline of the entrepreneurial spirit in the late Victorian period , perhaps even in the many centuries of geographical isolation and freedom from foreign occupation behind the barrier of sea power . |
20 | ‘ We were only there for a few weeks . |
21 | The great Waka Nathan touched down twice for the All Blacks . |
22 | The owners of Land 's End are experts at the game and my friend Des Hannigan , who 's been working as a journalist down there for a few years , tells me they spray press releases at the local media with mad abandon . |
23 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
24 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |
25 | The Boston Compact was essentially about employability , ( although there were some initial allusions to community regeneration ) ; the two key funding UK government departments are obviously principally about the same thing . |
26 | So apart from a few minutes to snatch a bite to eat , he was seldom off the helm . |
27 | Then you can simply release your grip and back slowly away over a few paces . |
28 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
29 | Sometimes portraits of mature adults were used for children and adolescents , not necessarily of the same sex as the intended subject . |
30 | The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do . |