Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 2 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |
| 3 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 4 | Distillation may be carried out in either a batch process , using a pot still , or a continuous process , using a patent or Coffey still . |
| 5 | Eh she was away I think when , or she 'd gone out when called in upon here a fortnight ago . |
| 6 | But it was suddenly called off with just a week to go . |
| 7 | They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about . |
| 8 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 9 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 10 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 11 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 12 | On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter . |
| 13 | Er this is why swimming 's been taken up by quite a lot , there are retir classes for people who 've retired and ca n't swim . |
| 14 | Even so , original estimates that the plans would cost $150 million have already risen by 20 per cent and the finishing time been put back at least a year until 1996 . |
| 15 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
| 16 | There were no serious injuries , but one passenger was cut by flying glass and traffic was held up for over an hour . |