Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it
2 Oxford lost 3-1 at Luton and Hereford went down one-nil at home to Crewe
3 Its chief exports had been sponges and merchant seamen , and those brought in nothing in wartime .
4 When there 's only me in company that 's sober .
5 So let so nothing in reality has changed , has it ?
6 All the operas on which his world reputation are based are entirely his in idea , inspiration , lay-out and dramatic emphasis .
7 Curiosity ran high as to who this purchaser — obviously someone of wealth and taste — could be .
8 So , it does n't need the rigorous coaching of , for example , athletics to improve , merely plenty of time on one board learning how it behaves .
9 Most of the characterization is effected by the recitative , which varies from the driest quick quasi-parlando — Monteverdi sometimes writes only a single sustained note to carry eight or nine syllables — to actual melody , with every nuance between and naturally plenty of scope for his stile concitato .
10 And finally , a lot of games coming up , a lot of midweek games , so plenty of chance for United to erm continue to climb the table , although three points against the side on equal points really would have been a great bonus would n't it ?
11 Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface .
12 Dan made love like he did everything else : with only himself in mind .
13 If , at least for some years afterwards , there was no real war , there was none the less plenty of tension in south-western France .
14 Nephew of John Moores , founder of the Littlewoods pools empire , he had had little to do with the business when he found suddenly himself in line to the throne .
15 Pour in plenty of water to flood it and then replace the soil when the water has soaked in .
16 I give the pink botty a thorough good scrub , putting in plenty of elbow grease .
17 I 'll let yer know in plenty of time , ’ Mary answered .
18 Patsy turned in plenty of time , nimbly , quick on his feet as a buck hare .
19 The four-inch-wide gun slits let in plenty of light , although there were electric wall lights .
20 Choose a spot where they can bask in plenty of sunshine each day .
21 ‘ We 've come three weeks early so that we can get in plenty of training , plus the three warm-up games .
22 He 'll be breaking up the twentieth and how long you on holiday , fortnight ?
23 I 'm gon na take down you in detention tonight
24 So you in credit or
25 ‘ Randy , would you put down something for discussion by the Executive Committee ? ’
26 It is very useful , if you 're trying to write down something like accent , say northern accent , would be , but would sound in words like cook , there 's no way of really doing that unless you use phonetic transcription .
27 But it was only something for Dad . ’
28 You have blue bits and you have yellow bits and it 's going to be much easier for you to put them together one on top of the other so you have a blue and yellow syllabus .
29 But at least three , and maybe four of the women on the Tribune slate are also likely to be elected , taking the total of women on the Shadow Cabinet to four or five , compared with only one at present .
30 There 's only one at school .
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