Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 2 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 3 | For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest . |
| 4 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 5 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 6 | Gertrude stopped working , and collapsed ponderously on to a seat . |
| 7 | The buildings were transformed rather successfully into a gallery for Bohemian art by František Cubr and Josef Pilar , in the 1960s . |
| 8 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 9 | You know , wiping er a body down , you know , wiping it right down with a , with a mutton cloth we call it . |
| 10 | Bravura camerawork conspires with a scarce script and some edgy cutting to exploit every ounce of tension , right down to a killer ending . |
| 11 | Well , she went right down to a size ten when she lost all that weight before . |
| 12 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 13 | The world 's clearest sea water has been recorded in the Weddell Sea in early spring , clear enough for a Secchi disc to be seen at a depth of 79 m ( Gieskes et al . , |
| 14 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 15 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 16 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 17 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 18 | Come on in for a cup of tea … " |
| 19 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 20 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 21 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals . |
| 23 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 24 | MacPublisher 's first incarnation was , to be polite , dreadful and version II fared little better despite a brief spell of fame as Letraset 's LetraPage . |
| 25 | That she would be a little less like a young woman . |
| 26 | And sat wearily down with a grunt and a frown |
| 27 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |
| 28 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 29 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 30 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |