Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree .
2 I have I tell you I 've done that before now and then that one ends up right down in the bottom corner
3 Though I must admit , we 'll be glad when it 's all over in the Far East and they can come back safe and sound . ’
4 It seemed all over in the 63rd minute when Clough , a few yards outside the penalty area , volleyed a headed clearance instantly into the roof of the net before Hardwick could move a muscle .
5 If society 's resource could be used to make more output , even the poor might be better off in the long run .
6 I share her view that industry , commerce and individuals in this country are better off in the European Community than outside it .
7 As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later .
8 Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year .
9 They will then see what the man or woman has got left in disposable income each week ; if it 's two pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two pounds , if it 's two hundred pounds , then it 'll be ten units x two hundred pounds to hit the better off in the same proportion as the people at the bottom of the income level .
10 The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia .
11 Erm some additional sidings , mills over here , some additional sidings were put in , in the early part of this century , and they came off the this track erm just this side of on the left hand side of the level crossing , erm and went er up to a dead end er just along in the right hand side , er over now towards where factory is .
12 The Aston Villa centre half , now settled comfortably back in the Irish fold after the controversy of his failure to appear for the game in Albania three weeks ago , is a major figure in Charlton 's plans .
13 The disk is round , diameter up to 7 mm , covered by multipointed spinelets which have a very wide crown , approximately round in the top view with many irregular points , often 10 or more .
14 Early on in the present government 's administration a representative of Fabius warned that if research was to get the money it required , other ministries would suffer .
15 Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances ,
16 The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside .
17 If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname .
18 Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut .
19 Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company .
20 But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism .
21 His face smashed a pane low down in the french window and went through , stippling Goldman 's shoes with blood .
22 Once up in the front line , troops found that life had been reduced , in the words of a Beaux Arts professor serving with the Territorials , ‘ to a struggle between the artillerymen and the navvy , between the cannon and the mound of earth ’ All day long the enemy guns worked at levelling the holes laboriously scraped out the previous night .
23 Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe .
24 Still out in the Far East , Christie 's have announced that they are opening a jewellery department in Hong Kong , to be headed by David Warren .
25 Domesday Book shows that way back in the eleventh century Pocklington was the centre of a large royal manor containing a church and three water mills and that its inhabitants included fifteen burgesses .
26 Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place .
27 Hutton had in fact summarised the principles of natural selection in unpublished manuscript notes way back in the 18th century .
28 The economy and marketing had been based on barter from way back in the fourth century , so this was not new .
29 We could only travel at the rate of the slowest ship , and once out in the Irish Sea were ‘ blacked out ’ .
30 Usually , at this time of year , they stayed out of sight right up in the highest mountain peaks , where the monsoon rains fall as snow .
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