Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , if we give this a sweep out and that . |
| 2 | Is this a wind up ? |
| 3 | came back and put half a stone on , right , diet ! |
| 4 | You can only get to Rudolfo 's by the road we took the other day when they found the car- or else on foot there 's a bit of a patch half a kilometre on from here — and in any case Rudolfo wo n't be down until tomorrow , being Palm Sunday . |
| 5 | Currency markets followed the trend , with the dollar opening sharply higher , only to drift back during the afternoon and close just under half a pfennig up at Dm1.6370 . |
| 6 | The big man took half a pace back . |
| 7 | This marked the end of English triumphs until the reign of Henry V , half a century on ; indeed , the futile campaign of 1359–60 already signalled that the peak of English success was passed . |
| 8 | Almost half a century on , Harriet Ryley has been back to see what changes have taken place . |
| 9 | And he says he is still learning about them almost half a century on . |
| 10 | But half a century on and the most basic Jeep will , according to UK importers TKM , be as much as an impulse , fashion buy as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle or , though on a slightly less grand scale , a pair of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses . |
| 11 | As for propaganda , well , half a century back , the Blitz generation did n't believe even their own government 's pronouncements half the time . |
| 12 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 13 | It was unheard of for Captain and Mrs Burrows to take even half a day off during their ministry , but there were times when the older children were close to tears over their exercise books . |
| 14 | One of our fellows claimed that , within half a day out from Basra , one of the RAF chaps was stopped and a HLI lad said , " Hey Jock , can you tell me where is the wash-hoos ? " |
| 15 | But half a mile on , I find I am quite enjoying the mist and fine drizzle . |
| 16 | In the final stages of this journey , Ease Gill can be seen half a mile down the slope on the right . |
| 17 | Uncle Knacker owned three fattening fields between two arterials half a mile down from the ‘ Red Lion ’ . |
| 18 | ENGINEER Windsor Rees plunged half a mile down a mountainside in his Land-Rover and walked away with just a graze . |
| 19 | Straggling , catching up with one another , keeping more or less together , they had wandered over half a mile down the fields , always following the course of the brook . |
| 20 | He had sited it far from where it really was , half a mile down from where it was ; he had obviously never seen it . |
| 21 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |
| 22 | The woman who died was driving this pick-up truck when it hit an ambulance travelling in the opposite direction along the A417 , half a mile out of Cirencester . |
| 23 | Bassetja led from half a mile out and looked at one stage like winning the race as the favourite Velma appeared to have it all to do . |
| 24 | RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy . |
| 25 | Mr Dunn , of Springvale Road , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was pulled about half a mile out to sea . |
| 26 | It was still about half a mile in to the town centre and , apart from Nails , they all lived more than a mile out the other side . |
| 27 | I joined the leaders at the half-way mark and then powered my way to the front , crossing the line , half a metre up , in 10.15 seconds , a new Championship record . |
| 28 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 29 | And I am if at five minutes to five , or five minutes to leaving off time whatever it was and you would n't say well we 'll get ready to go home you had to pick a half a link up make it into a staple and throw it in the box . |
| 30 | Half a decade on , global warming has become the biggest environment story . |