Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how value it is , and most insurance , yeah , that 's right through a brokers . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've discussed the idea of continental championships in each of the disciplines and bringing the best skiers together for a Masters final late in the season . |
| 3 | I was called in and told the show was too expensive and was stretching facilities far too greatly for a children 's programme . ’ |
| 4 | I mean he 's such a good son in law to me , he really is , I mean he , he , he 'll help Pete with any thing , especially when they lived here , he 'll help Peter with any thing and erm , he 's very , very good to Deb , he get 's in after a days work , he does the shopping and housework , look 's after the cats which he does n't particularly like |
| 5 | Somewhat like a dolls ' house the building was formerly the Congregational Mission Hall opened in 1872 . |
| 6 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 7 | Well I do n't think that 's much like a rolls royce . |
| 8 | I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way . |
| 9 | Actually going along with a careers officer |
| 10 | If gross income is less then £25,000 , then along with a receipts and payments statement there must be a statement of assets and liabilities . |
| 11 | As well as co-operating with software houses , Aldus will be introducing a range of filters itself together with a programmers kit that allows special versions to be generated by the user — given that he or she can write programs in C. |
| 12 | The mast combines a tapered fishing rod at the top with an aluminium tube that costs a fiver or so from a metals stockist . |
| 13 | When Danny returned from the States Sean was well into ultra stalled hand plants assisted by 2 or 3 platform spectators so in a doubles act with Mark Abrook , Danny had to go one better by actually making a hand plant on Mark 's back whilst Mark was doing a backside grind . |
| 14 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |
| 15 | Writing is n't usually a social activity , except when you 're working on exercises together in a writers ' group — and even then you 'll find that you do most of your writing alone , in whatever space and time you can carve out for yourself . |
| 16 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
| 17 | The most people that we could get together in a weeks notice , we have to put the actual amalgamation of the team |
| 18 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 19 | So he kicks you out and settles down to a nine-months ' bender . |
| 20 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked in to a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 21 | In Herefordshire , education , health , social services and voluntary groups are working together on a Lifestyles Project which enables students leaving college to have a life of their own within the community . |
| 22 | If I go inside on a drugs charge again , I might as well kiss the kids goodbye , y'know what I mean … . |
| 23 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 24 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 25 | In effect , when section 89 applies , the company if it wishes to issue equity shares for cash , has to do so by a rights issue , as described in chapter 13 or a similar process if it is a private company . |
| 26 | The idea is that an area consisting largely of derelict and/or vacant land should be landscaped and used for a variety of horticultural , leisure and recreational purposes , normally for a six-months period . |
| 27 | and they grassed it over for a children 's pre pre playground , now they want to turn it back , and extend the car park . |
| 28 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 29 | It was exactly like a children 's tea party , complete with squabbling and displays of temperament . |
| 30 | During the mid phases of running stride , the carbon plate contracts , just like a vaulters bent pole , to collect and store energy . |