Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going away for just a day before Christmas to visit a friend or relative , just to let Alan Markby and Laura Danby know that she did have someone else , would bolster her morale . |
| 2 | The Davidsons ' publicist Clifford Elson said last night : ‘ Jim 's going away for quite a while over Christmas which will give the situation a chance to defuse . |
| 3 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 4 | He turned away with just a touch of impatience . |
| 5 | We are already at quite a distance from the original simple idea of government by the people . |
| 6 | He 'd gone home after about a year of occupation . |
| 7 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 8 | He 'll be able to return to his Florida oceanside home in just a couple of hours . |
| 9 | Are you totally without even a gram of responsibility ? ’ |
| 10 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 11 | There was also at least a century of crossing with Shorthorn , Hereford , Aberdeen Angus and Red Poll . |
| 12 | It would have clinched the identification as Apollo , which is probably correct : a head was found in the temple of Apollo at Cyrene ; and the long , braided hair bound round the head , though a fashion of gilded youth at the beginning of the century ( the fair-haired boy , fig. 70 ) , was probably by now a sign of divine or heroic status ( cf. fig. 79 ) . |
| 13 | In the mid-680s , Eadric , probably by now a youth of about 15 , attacked him . |
| 14 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 15 | And er so I mean it 's you know , I am a politician I mean you know , it 's in the blood I 've b been in the in the House of Commons now for about a quarter of a century . |
| 16 | Himself a farmer , almost for 30 years an MP , now with almost a year as minister under his belt , Sir Hector was his usual affable self , seldom referring to his backing group of Scottish Office specialists . |
| 17 | Another major player , Microsoft Corp , so far with only a tippy-toe in the open systems waters , needs to control the definition and evolution of computing to maintain its momentum , Wendler says . |
| 18 | If we assume that some investors within each group were " not interested " in an activity made more profitable by the construction of a canal but only in dividends or , after 1790 , in speculative profit , and that this was almost wholly true of women investors , substantially so of the clergy and of the majority of those from the professions , then it is clear that overall at least a quarter of investment in canals was drawn from a net cast unprecedentedly widely . |
| 19 | A postal survey of genitourinary medicine clinics in 1988 showed that a third offered hepatitis B vaccine to clinic attenders , and a recent audit report from a London genitourinary medicine clinic estimated that vaccine was delivered successfully to only a quarter of susceptible new homosexual patients . |
| 20 | Two branches in Birmingham were visited regularly for over a year between 1980 and 1981 . |
| 21 | I found , after experimenting that I did not need any glycerine at all as I managed to get the colour to work well with just a smudge from the wet brush . |
| 22 | The patient may have enjoyed gardening before his stroke or head injury , and it is an activity he can return to even with quite a degree of disability . |
| 23 | The Committee 's final report was published in 1977 but even before then a number of its conclusions and recommendations had already been acted upon . |
| 24 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 25 | He bowed to her a little formally and then with only a hint of self-mockery kissed her hand . |
| 26 | Unfortunately at least a couple of the girls overdosed on Spanish Fly , a powerful aphrodisiac which caused violent and uncontrolled vomiting in addition to its furiously libidinous effect . |
| 27 | Coleridge became almost at once a leader of Bristol 's vigorous and combative intellectual life , in which the radical sympathies of a prosperous nonconformist community confronted the conservatism of wealthy merchants and professional men . |
| 28 | He talked freely about quite a number of subjects , but had not once broached the question of being sent ashore . |
| 29 | French names like New Man and Rodier Hommes were innovators in the 1970s , offering men a complete coordinated collection instead of just a range of suits or a collection of shirts . |
| 30 | After the besieged had licked the corners of their mouths and sucked their fingers clean one by one , the cold ocean of hunger closed over their heads again with scarcely a ripple to be seen . |