Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're better off going out as a threesome or a foursome |
| 2 | The truly interested would undoubtedly be better off sitting down with a less amusing but ultimately more useful camcorder manual . |
| 3 | An hour or so later I saw my mother 's green Metro , just about to turn out of the drive-way of Hamish and Tone 's house . |
| 4 | ‘ I was just about to go over to the station when that arrived . ’ |
| 5 | He was just about to plunge back into the streets when he saw someone running towards him . |
| 6 | This Pentax weather-resistant camera arrived to be tested at a very opportune moment — I was just about to head off for a surfing weekend in North Cornwall . |
| 7 | She was just about to get back in the car , when she heard another vehicle coming up the hill fast . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 9 | In terms of how rant and rave for probably not very long and you do n't get aggressive behaviour , got nowhere else to go , you got ta get to come back down hang on to the chair to grim death absolute shambles never used it like this . |
| 10 | The south east ridge leads down into a bowl of porridge-like peat , so I bore off eastwards , still rough enough , into the paring wind , crossing the Allt an t-Strathain Mhoir high up to drop down to the church . |
| 11 | The visitors were ahead after five minutes when Lee Sharpe volleyed home a centre from Denis Irwin , and Southampton were struggling from then on to get back into the match . |