Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |
| 2 | Moreover , the event seemed to me much more a paean to the Pahlavi family than to Iran . |
| 3 | And so I would n't think that that I probably Just a just a trait of personality . |
| 4 | fraid so … only took them just over a minute as Paul Devlin poked the ball home from a corner |
| 5 | The conversion went well and took me just over a week to complete . |
| 6 | says that one should last me just over a year , that one should . |
| 7 | And the one cost me twenty quid and that lasted me just over a year . |
| 8 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 9 | Although writing under pressure is how many authors are best able to function , Eliot set himself so high a standard that his achievement , given its quantity , was the more remarkable . |
| 10 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 11 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 12 | It 's a swings and roundabouts situation which perhaps only a locking nut cures completely , but again cost enters the picture , as indeed does personal preference . |
| 13 | The attack happened on the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford which just over a year ago was the scene of major public disturbances . |
| 14 | Here , this earlier population mixing would have represented a leukaemogenic influence — and in a part of the town in which shortly afterwards a second and different type of mixing was occasioned by the oil industry . |
| 15 | Its as much a part of being a modern-day star as appearing on chat shows or signing autographs . |
| 16 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 17 | The explosion appears to have occurred during an operation to extract plutonium 239 , in which too high a concentration of nitric acid was used , causing a violent reaction . |
| 18 | He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later . |
| 19 | Thank you right now a really clever thing then that you should know about is if I want to times that number by ten right . |
| 20 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 21 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 22 | You just only a piece of little metal . |
| 23 | Then when you had grown enough and mother had carried you there nearly a year , God opened a door for you and brought you out into this world . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you no longer a god-fearing man , Joshua ? ’ |
| 25 | Erm , I 'd like to welcome you to the Industrial Training Board , I spent about four and a half years with training scheme , and I actually originated in er , engineering , so er , I 've got a long track record , perhaps of training and er , an even long track record working , so I wo n't give you too hard a time . |
| 26 | I 've labelled you very strongly a scientist . |
| 27 | Cost them nearly about a thousand |
| 28 | I 've actually the last time I got some delivered for me was February so I tend to sort of get something about once a month I think . |
| 29 | And they told me my flat 's and go , you know I can move I 'm gon na pack everything before even a house comes through . |
| 30 | ‘ People would be wrong to think of me as just a centre forward who is good in the air . |