Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked away with hardly a glimpse back . ’ |
| 2 | A question from our survey asked children whether they would like to know more about how a vacuum cleaner works ; hardly anyone did , and girls were even less curious than boys . |
| 3 | The other prisoners in the compound supported their stand as just and reasonable whereupon some fifty warders were assembled and carried Orchin , Richmond and McCready bodily to where a police officer was waiting . |
| 4 | Three separate inquiries are underway into why a woman spectator died attending the demoliton of a block of flats in Glasgow , early reports suggest she WAS at a safe distance from the site of the blast . |
| 5 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 6 | Simple-minded formulae about the additive relationship of genes and environment — although they still appear , often without even a health warning , in standard genetics text-books — bear little relationship to what happens in real life . |
| 7 | A PROBE was under way today into how a vintage jet crashed into moorland , killing its pilot . |
| 8 | And she 's sitting there with just a swimming costume on and they think |
| 9 | Maxim bypassed the village completely map-reading George up a third road above the farm and they left the car there with perhaps a quarter-mile walk down into the valley and up again to the cottage . |
| 10 | Rasbora maculata can be housed then in either a community environment , or on their own — an ideal size of aquarium being three or four feet , depending on the number of fish that are kept . |
| 11 | Kenny just stands there in just a suede jacket on . |
| 12 | By eliminating ploughing , soil disturbance is kept to a minimum and wind erosion is reduced by the fact that the soil is never without either a crop cover or a binding layer of roots . |