Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 2 | Not here — not now — with the sun blazing down and not a breath of wind stirring that was n't edged with the thrill of warmth . |
| 3 | Ciaran Fitzgerald and the team will be all too aware that they let the fans down and so a repeat of that disaster in the remaining matches is most unlikely . |
| 4 | The manager Willie Ormond claimed the players had been given the night off and therefore a breach of discipline had not taken place . |
| 5 | But er then there was others sort of cheap joints you know , they just rushed things up and just a couple of just er When you see some of th You know that goodwill shop that that the thing when you when you see a lot of the things that 's supposed to be polished , you know , they 're just varnished over . |
| 6 | It is the only inland funicular railway in this country , and is still in operation , its cars travelling up and down a gradient of 1–1½ and worked nowadays by electric motor . |
| 7 | So I removed a rubber-handled wrench from the tool kit — a souvenir of a summer working on rich people 's yachts in southern Ireland — and weighed it up and down a couple of times . |
| 8 | ‘ Drive up and down a couple of times , check the area . ’ |
| 9 | The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality . |
| 10 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 11 | Gramsci ( 1978 ) has pointed out that once a mode of production is established , with corresponding modes of political and cultural discourse , then law is developed to regulate that particular social formation . |
| 12 | This is limited because the light from the l.e.d. spreads out and only a fraction of it falls on the detector . |
| 13 | The great clothing factory that took up most of it had shut down its operations more than four hours back and only a handful of Security guards and maintenance engineers were to be found down here now . |
| 14 | We 've gone back and forth a couple of times on pickups and pickup placement — one of the problems with having 24 frets is that the pickup has to be slightly further towards the bridge and it 's not such a warm sound , so there might have to be some compromise there . |