Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all too common for teachers to feel so insecure in taking a class into the countryside or on to a farm that they prefer to avoid such excursions . |
| 2 | They had regarded it rightly or wrongly as a wangle and as an attempt to ally capitalist forces against the worker . " |
| 3 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 4 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 5 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 6 | views that hold a good life to be readily achievable only in certain well-defined types of social structure , or only in a society that works concertedly for the realization of certain higher human capacities and the suppression of baser ones , or only given certain types of economic relations among men . |
| 7 | The pendulum which seems to have swung very far in one direction will either swing back or over in a circle and the extreme position will not be maintained . |
| 8 | pictures or shopping or round the market or just for a walk or for a meal . |
| 9 | Remember to stretch while the muscles are still warm from working or directly after a bath and hold each position statically for at least 15 seconds . |
| 10 | It is essential that anaesthetized mice are kept warm on a heated pad under a light or preferably in an incubator until they recover consciousness . |
| 11 | Whenever this can be done better , more quickly , or cheaply by a picture than a book , the picture is entitled to a place on the shelves and in the catalog . |
| 12 | Under section 518 of the Companies Act 1985 if you are owed £750 or more by a company and it is overdue you can serve that company with a notice requesting payment within 21 days . |
| 13 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 14 | ‘ We could go to the theatre or out to a restaurant or something . ’ |
| 15 | In fact I 'll change with the last record that I heard ; if I hear someone I really like on a record , or even at a gig before I play , then the chances are I 'll be playing some of his licks . |
| 16 | It is , however , not on his career at Court or as a bishop or even as a controversialist that Andrewes ' place in the history of the Church of England depends , but on his sermons and private prayers , which were published after his death . |
| 17 | At this point , it is sufficient to point out that it is difficult to see a link between the themes of the above clauses , or even between a rheme and a following theme , for instance . |
| 18 | To those who , for reasons of personal inhibition , administrative convenience or even from a feeling that " they " do n't need sex , are determined to " keep sex out of the Home " , one can only suggest that , ultimately , they are doomed to failure . |
| 19 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 20 | It states that sex is not appropriate in every situation where a couple are mutually attracted , or even within a relationship that is expected to last for some months or even years . |
| 21 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 22 | or indeed from a resignation or premature retirement following the procedure , must generally be met from outside the school 's own budget share . |
| 23 | Marcus , putting his hands upon the board at the foot , moved the bed slightly on its casters , moving it gently to and fro with a movement as of one rocking a cradle . |
| 24 | And so after a month or so 's arrears accumulated she got the inevitable form — an eviction notice . |
| 25 | There 's these springy sort of things bouncing up and down on a string like they 're alive . |
| 26 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 27 | He looked her up and down in a manner that was no longer respectful . |
| 28 | and erm someone was trying to explain simple harmonic motion They start piston going up and down inside an engine and you think well what what what 's a what 's a piston ? |
| 29 | and only like a village but er |
| 30 | I write to you in the full possession of my faculties and not as a madman but as the brother you know . |