Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The linking of sexual enjoyment with social status also proved a golden formula for Hugh Hefner , who had failed as a cartoonist and copy-writer on Esquire in Chicago and was doing none too well as a promoter of a magazine called Children 's Activities . |
| 2 | A few days later two men sized each other up none too discreetly in a Park Avenue office . |
| 3 | We timed the ride well because just as we cycled back into Fishguard the sky darkened and yet another downpour drove us none too reluctantly into a tearoom . |
| 4 | We could borrow one easily enough from a lifting vessel or salvage tug but the chances are high that he 'd know nothing about explosives . |
| 5 | A word is not a category at all in the sense used : since a text may be decomposed entirely into a sequence of words , there is no linguistic sense in which one could choose to use something else instead of a word . |
| 6 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 7 | And of course the same thing applied with clothes and shoes , they always inspected the cleansiness and if your shoes had holes in or anything then once in a while there were new ones came in and y you were fitted out . |
| 8 | If clutter is your only problem , be ruthless and get rid of anything hanging around that you have not used for the last six months , and put anything else away in a cupboard , cabinet or closet somewhere . |