Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Geoffrey Trease ( 1964 , p.3 ) has said : ‘ For the first … two centuries [ of children 's literature ] the terrible twins , Morality and Instruction , stalk arrogantly through almost every story ’ . |
| 2 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 3 | It would be rash to make the conclusions of this chapter depend absolutely on exactly the account of certain " if " statements that has now been given or intimated . |
| 4 | But in riding , quietness , and general environment , Mark 3 coaches gliding through the countryside at speed owe little to even a decade ago . |
| 5 | ‘ Hang on in there a minute , my lovely . |
| 6 | Zips : all the zips run freely on both the fly and the inner . |
| 7 | And we get away with twice a week . |
| 8 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 9 | Erm members will remember at the last er , personal services committee on the twenty fourth of June er , the option to put forward by the Environment Trust and Widdings er , builders was accepted as the one that er officers could pursue and to actually get some final proposals worked up and bring back to both the neighbourhood committee and this committee . |
| 10 | Well I 'll book it up erm , find out at least a week before hand . |
| 11 | It saves money and you end up with exactly the house you want . |
| 12 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 13 | I stay there for quite a while , until I get real good and warm . |
| 14 | I stay there for quite a bit , looking round and that , till it gets light . |
| 15 | We sit there for nearly an hour , staring into the house-sized holes , mesmerized by the relentless sound and fury . |
| 16 | I sit there for quite a bit , hunched up on the pavement . |
| 17 | I lay there with absolutely no idea what I would be doing the following day or if I stood any chance of being selected by the Legion . |
| 18 | The crack is straightforward and I move right to below the overhang . |
| 19 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 20 | I agree entirely with absolutely every point that he has made so effectively . |
| 21 | Er this is erm , er this is the Spring , ca n't read out what it is , the Spring , this is the great Spring raffle , Amnesty does get quite a lot of money from the raffles , er they start off with just the Christmas one now we have them all through the year I think , |
| 22 | A company often thinks that it can let space for a short term — say two or three years — and then move back in once the business climate has improved . |
| 23 | They also move well beyond simply the delivery of the TVEI programme ( Cohen 1989:16 ) : While … consortia were initially viewed as vehicles for " delivery " they have , in the extension programme , quickly incorporated other concerns which relate to the whole gamut of educational concerns and particularly those relating to the new curriculum changes of the Education Reform Act . |
| 24 | So all through the anxious days of incubation until the dull-plumaged infants are fully fledged , he and the hen move about without even a whisper . |
| 25 | Oh , yes , because rings come in to quite a bit of wear do n't they ? |
| 26 | He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points . |
| 27 | The purchaser will have conducted its own investigation of the vendor 's business in the negotiations which lead up to either an agreement in principle or a more formal acknowledgement of agreement by the use of heads of terms ( see Chapter 1 , page 9 ) . |