Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adv prt] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 2 | In practice , however , they often fall back on a similar analysis ( Sarup , 1986 , pp. 40 , 95–8 ) . |
| 3 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 4 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 5 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 6 | Tiny hummingbirds fly down from New England into Louisiana and then take off on a non-stop sea-crossing of five hundred miles across the Bay of Mexico to the Yucatan Peninsula and the warm jungles of Central and South America . |