Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specialist series : These programmes are usually on for a limited period and cover specialist subjects such as holidays , motoring , food and wine or industry . |
| 2 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 3 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 4 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 5 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 6 | He has stayed on as a special adviser and in April will start teaching at his alma mater , Chuo University . |
| 7 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 8 | Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent . |
| 9 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 10 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 11 | Eyes down for a full house and a long run . |
| 12 | Things would quieten down for a little while and the huddles be reformed , but before long there was the crack of a whip and a pony and trap would dash down the field . |
| 13 | I mean er you know , I I was went in as a mechanical fitter and er stayed as such , getting sort of bigger and more responsibl bilities as I went Grew up . |
| 14 | ‘ I think the Border clubs would have to sit down as a composite group and work out a new sevens structure . ’ |
| 15 | Went in for a hot chocolate and that was it we did n't |
| 16 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 17 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 18 | As I see it , you get your bills in for a certain amount and you 've got to pay it . |
| 19 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 20 | Their relationship with the organisation is likely to be transient they are brought in for a particular event and might or might not work again for the same organisation . |
| 21 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 22 | But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery . |
| 23 | So you would feel equally at home there with a group of friends on a night out or just popping in for a quiet drink and a chat . |
| 24 | Sir Richard led them down through a flagstoned kitchen and scullery , out into the great yard around which the house was built . |
| 25 | Then I quartered the block and pointed out the Fire Exit , which was a battered red door in between a Greek restaurant and a graphic art studio . |
| 26 | So here she was sitting beside me on the window-seat , shut in between a heavy curtain and a window . |
| 27 | One diver on a previous expedition to the Arctic got bent after chasing an elusive jellyfish down past a safe limit and having his regulator freeze up . |
| 28 | He went back for the woman pedestrian he knocked down near a busy roundabout and helped her into his white Sierra car . |
| 29 | On The Woman I Am , Chaka takes control again and , while the arrangements struggle to fill every available space with drum patterns and horn fills , she keeps swooping in like a dive-bombing seagull and forcing songs and producers into submission . |
| 30 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |