Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He did n't , you did n't take out for nearly a year though in n it Bedge ? |
2 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
3 | The charging light will go out after approximately an hour , when charging is complete . |
4 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
5 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
6 | ‘ The rules are loose , ’ a WWF spokeman said , ‘ you can get away with quite a lot . |
7 | If so , public opinion in the western democracies would probably put up with quite a lot of blood and bodies . |
8 | But can I come back in there a bit . |
9 | She told him that she did not play again for over a week . |
10 | she 'll sit down with perhaps a pen in her hand and then go up and |
11 | I can sit down in 'ere a bit , ca n't I ? ’ |