Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after about a couple of bouts , I thought , alright , and it suddenly dawned on me I did n't know how to stop the tractor . |
| 2 | A long French liner slipped majestically by with a mixture of European and Asian faces staring curiously from its rails , then the Arid was pushing its way through a swarm of sampans moving downriver on local errands , most of them rowed , to Joseph 's surprise , by women . |
| 3 | Picasso too had stayed near by in a cluster of farmers ' cottages . |
| 4 | She was heading for the supermercado when a flaxen-haired man with a teak-dark tan waved vigorously from beyond a group of onlookers on the opposite side of the square . |
| 5 | This proceeded uneventfully for about a month with no obvious evidence of either haemolysis or regression of lymphadenopathy . |
| 6 | Originally invented for high resolution engineering and plastic surgery , the scanner , which employs a low-energy helium-neon ( He-Ne ) laser , can measure an object three-dimensionally to within a millimetre of accuracy . |
| 7 | I was there for about a couple of years and then I moved in into Nottingham on traff on the Traffic Department , you know the people that wear the white hats and , and do people for speeding . |
| 8 | She regarded me warily from under a fringe of split ends . |
| 9 | But by that time er we were n't there very long and the war finished and I was there in for a year after that in , in er Germany . |
| 10 | Elements of the page are described by their mathematical form instead of as a series of dots , typefaces are stored mathematically rather than as digitised characters . |
| 11 | I have discovered a completeness of my mind and body so that it can work as a whole entity , instead of as a jumble of separate limbs , head and torso all working independently of one another . |
| 12 | These relationships are particularly important since some writers present comparatively low absolute wage levels in the UK as a competitive advantage instead of as a penalty for overall poor performance [ Williams et al. , 1983 ] . |
| 13 | It would make things a lot easier for her — for both of them — if they could manage to end this marriage on a fairly amicable note , instead of in a flood of tension and arguments . |