Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the other there were the usual fears that the United States might overreact or give too high a priority to the Far East at the expense of Europe . |
| 2 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 3 | Its certainty was attained once the bill was separated from the charter party and became not only a receipt for the goods but also an independent ( captain or master of the vessel issued ) abstract document of title . |
| 4 | She decided therefore that The Sun was never again to be offered ‘ Laura Ashley ’ publicity material and reinforced as tight a hold as possible on the Image . |
| 5 | And waking up about a quarter past ten , go downstairs and make tea and toast takes the paper up , I take Freeman 's catalogue put the , the wireless on and he 's looking through the paper and I 'm looking through Freeman 's catalogue saying |
| 6 | The pressed steel system unit case is bulky by today 's standards and takes up quite a lot of desk space . |
| 7 | It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six . |
| 8 | Erm but I put the company into liquidation at that point , because of the problems we were all having in industry , and started again about a year , two years ago . |
| 9 | You can choose between the 2 or 4 star accommodation and stay on either a bed and breakfast or half board basis . |
| 10 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 11 | Despite the support of parents , of fellow teachers , of priests and even of two hon. Members , one from each side of the House , that teacher was refused a hearing before the school governors and had too short a period of service to seek the support of an industrial tribunal . |
| 12 | And he used to walk from here to and sign on twice a week . |
| 13 | A school that loses sight of its values runs the risk that it ceases to be a school at all , and becomes instead just a learning centre , the sort of educational service station that the sub-text of the 1988 Act seems to envisage . |
| 14 | Colours and designs created by tiny scales , overlapping like tiles on a roof , come from pigments , or the effects of microscopic structures which split the light falling on them and reflect back only a part of it . |
| 15 | Not counting the number of times she put her fat face round the door & said , nodding and smiling as only a Frenchwoman can , with an air of delighted gaiety ( ! ) |
| 16 | By the middle and later 1960s , however , this ‘ Cisalpine ’ theological agenda was being overtaken by a more evidently twentieth-century one : modern biblical scholarship turned out not to have stopped with Westcott and Lightfoot nor even with Dodd , but seemed much more a matter of swallowing Bultmann and Nineham ; ecumenical theology now led one less to Luther and Calvin or even Barth than to the vapid profundities of Tillich , Bishop Robinson 's Honest to God and beyond . |
| 17 | But to cover up anywhere a bit ugly , bare looking it 's very handy . |
| 18 | Old shrub roses , particularly centifolias , enjoy clay , but flower only once a season . |
| 19 | Horak forged ahead on his own but set too fast a pace and died at Elmbridge . |
| 20 | From St. Peter 's he went to Selby in 1836 , but stayed there only a year before returning as incumbent of Chadkirk Chapel in Romiley , where he served until his death in 1862 . |