Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sat wearily down with a grunt and a frown |
| 2 | Melissa put an arm round her and , at a sign from Madame Delon , led her into the salon , pushed her gently on to a couch and sat down beside her . |
| 3 | I would have been killing myself laughing if the team were n't battling away so furiously for a winner and the whole place going mad . |
| 4 | A FORMER marine masqueraded so successfully as a policeman that he led a team of real officers on a job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 5 | Well , perhaps only after a pint or 2 of the extra strong Kingsdown . |
| 6 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 7 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 8 | Place one cake on a serving plate , spike all over with a skewer and lace with half the kirsch . |
| 9 | Though his theories of perception ‘ made him slip so easily into a feeling that nothing around him existed , or alternatively that he did not exist in anything around him ’ ( 66 ) , he dismisses his own supernatural powers as coincidence until they become too overwhelming to be ignored . |
| 10 | ‘ This technology means that community groups and local people are able to find out much more about an issue and how it has been tackled elsewhere much more than they ever were in the past . |
| 11 | Polite win for Pompey FOOTBALL : Portsmouth , who went so close to a promotion and Wembley double , have finished the season with a trophy after all . |
| 12 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 13 | SULTRY Najma Akhtar was voted most popular international artist in the UK Asian Pop Awards this week — but her mother STILL thinks she 'd be better off as a doctor or a chemical engineer . |
| 14 | Analyses such as the Montreal que study which concentrates on specifying syntactic constraints on variation ( cf. 7.4.2 ) will benefit greatly both from a parser and a concordance program — and in fact such a program was used to analyse the Montreal corpus . |
| 15 | Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith . |
| 16 | Like Kev says I rate him highly both as a defender and a motivator . |
| 17 | Nobody suggested that the Parliament at Westminster did not have the authority to pass such legislation , perhaps out of a feeling that Britain was paying enough for the defence of America to be entitled to impose a unified industrial policy , possibly more out of a feeling that it would be hard to enforce . |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard Co shares plunged a week or so back after a warning that its fiscal third quarter earnings to July 31 would be flat , and the news that it posted a net of $191m or 76 cents a share , compared with $192m or 76 cents a share last year , suggests that times have become exceedingly hard in the Unix market this summer , and that Sun Microsystems ' weak fiscal fourth quarter ( UX No 397 ) may not have been solely down to product line transitions . |
| 19 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 20 | The young airman turned his uniform inside out as a disguise and walked for 3 weeks until he reached Belgium . |
| 21 | It is to the credit of these players ( and to William MacIlwraith 's also ) that I do not recall ever having laughed so much and so heartily at a play that I liked so little . ’ |
| 22 | Guests of Mark and Cynthia Wilkinson are literally out on a limb when they are invited to dinner — because the couple entertain in a tree house . |
| 23 | After the initial course it is advisable to have an occasional lesson every so often as a reminder and a check that you are not falling into any bad habits without realizing it . |
| 24 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 25 | ‘ There are things that pills do n't do so well as a rest and treatment . |
| 26 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 27 | you 're only there for an hour or so you may have , I do n't know , twenty minutes of appropriate sociability which builds a rapport tremendously well |
| 28 | He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at . |
| 29 | For example , when a child is playing so destructively with a toy that it is likely to break , if the natural consequence occurs and the toy breaks , the child is able to learn from the outcome of his/her actions . |
| 30 | He would join in battle or in love so closely with a human that a link was established that worked both ways . |