Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , ready to leave for her afternoon and evening 's fun she thought it unlikely that she would meet anyone she knew in Fleet Street , or even up West with Rose , and anyway it was a chance which she was prepared to take , for she intended her little excursion to be the basis of yet another article . |
| 2 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 3 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 4 | And the Cid should have gone with him , but he fell sick and perforce therefore abode at home . |
| 5 | In Britain , this meant a commitment to increased social welfare , a high and stable level of employment , and more even distribution of income and wealth through a system of progressive taxation . |
| 6 | Quite something to witness , and often not part of feminists ' vocabulary . |
| 7 | And yet surely factorisation in Z[x] is unique ? |
| 8 | It was so brutal , and yet so matter of fact . |
| 9 | Modern research shows that industry had its roots in the previous rural life of home weavers and part-time farmers , that technological innovations ( such as Abraham Darby 's use of coal in smelting iron , 1709 ) took many decades to supplant existing methods of production and provide for successful exports , and that early reliance on water power and canal transport placed limits on expansion . |
| 10 | Shade is best provided by overhead deciduous trees , but not the dense , almost black shade cast by low beech branches and certainly not shade from conifers . |
| 11 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |