Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 2 | Cadence Design Systems Inc warns that turnover for the first quarter will be down substantially from the same period last year and it will likely see a loss for the quarter . |
| 3 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 4 | The great Waka Nathan touched down twice for the All Blacks . |
| 5 | The owners of Land 's End are experts at the game and my friend Des Hannigan , who 's been working as a journalist down there for a few years , tells me they spray press releases at the local media with mad abandon . |
| 6 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 7 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 8 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 9 | Since both sites and nesting material are usually in short supply in a weaver bird colony , he often laboriously unravels his first attempt and using its constituents weaves it all over again in the same place . |
| 10 | A clock that 's going fast , looked at by someone whose mind is churning over faster by the same amount , seems to be going at the normal rate ! ’ |
| 11 | Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ? |
| 12 | I had an image of them having it off together in the same building where I was . |
| 13 | Switch it off now for a few minutes . |
| 14 | Try leaving his nappy off again in a few months ' time . |
| 15 | Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach . |
| 16 | it was sore , but would heal up cleanly in a few days . |
| 17 | Two , to see whether we can knock down the price and whether we can get him to come up here in the same way as Doctor does and do it that way to reduce the costs . |
| 18 | I 'd like you to put up there for a few days , and try to scrape acquaintance with her . |
| 19 | You can stay up late for a few nights to finish that urgent report without getting irritable or asking too much of the people you live with . |
| 20 | 6–8 nanny-thin , slightly stale slices of bloomer loaf 2–3 oz raisins , plumped up overnight in a few spoonfuls of brandy butter and whole nutmeg ( or ground allspice ) 4 large eggs and 1 pt half cream 2–3 tbsp demerara sugar or crushed coffee sugar crystals ( optional ) |
| 21 | Electricity was not taken up everywhere with the same rapidity ; central European cities were ahead of Great Britain , for example , with their electric trams . |
| 22 | No sooner has it done so than another baby joins on behind in the same way and within a few seconds , the entire litter has formed a caravan behind their parent . |
| 23 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 24 | By way of introduction , today we find out more about the former model who is behind the secrets of the stars — and her remarkable success rate in predicting what will be … |
| 25 | The Brackley blooms are brought out early with a little help from 400 watt lamps sunning them from January onwards . |
| 26 | After that , she went out later for a few mornings , not admitting to herself whether or not she was avoiding him . |
| 27 | I stared back blandly with the same expression that he was trying on me . |
| 28 | Enthoven himself had urged the case for demonstration projects to " work at it till you work it out well in a few places — till you debug it " ( HSJ 1989 ) . |
| 29 | And once they 've been picked , cut the foliage back hard to a few centimetres from the crowns to stimulate new growth . |
| 30 | He went out late on the same evening , God knows where , and was found hanging from a beam under London Bridge . |