Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Crabb Robinson 's records looked odd transcribed in Roland 's own rather cramped script , less confident , less homogeneously part of a life . |
| 32 | In about quarter to six or something is n't he ? |
| 33 | I mean could they do that in about quarter of an hour |
| 34 | In terms of land , the early Merovingian kings were probably well endowed with estates and palaces , many of them perhaps originally part of the imperial fisc . |
| 35 | The nearest town was sufficiently far north to be a pie place , and nearly all the shops — the butchers , the bakers , the grocers , the solitary delicatessen — vied with each other in the quantity and variety of their pies . |
| 36 | Well he went down about quarter to seven last night . |
| 37 | right , so , he is there as er Jean er has read to us , seated at the , at the father 's right hand , he 's there on the throne , but Paul also says , talks about erm in the last verse there which is his body the fullness of , the fullness of him through Jesus who feels all in all , by the holy spirit although the glorified resurrected body of Jesus is on the throne , by the holy spirit he is everywhere , that 's why he 's with you and he 's with me and he 's with a folk in Timbuktu and in Honolulu , he is every where by the holy spirit , so now thinking of his exhortation again , as the God man , Jesus now fully and always makes use of the divine powers and attributes that are his , all power belongs to him and it 's because that he says to his disciples you 're to go into all the world and I am with you because all power is mine , all power , all authority is given onto me , therefore says Jesus , because of that you can go because you 're going in my strength and in my authority . |
| 38 | Just as in a previous era an official ‘ gentling of the masses ’ by way of induction into a culture of civilization had accompanied the educational and political entry of the working classes into citizenship within the nation , so now assimilation into an imagined British national culture and way of life became the preoccupation of the educational establishment ( Open University , 1974 ; Jones and Kimberley , 1982 ) . |
| 39 | So often defence of our hospitals is portrayed as a ‘ reactionary ’ defence of the status quo . |
| 40 | It emphasised that he was not only far west of London but far south as well on a latitude with Sicily and southern Spain . |
| 41 | Mendeleev placed some of these elements below even hydrogen in his table . |
| 42 | I could have took you down tomorrow night between six thirty and nine right ten percent off everything you . |
| 43 | I shall be available after half past five till about six o'clock if you wan na just I 'll be in tomorrow morning at quarter past eight . |
| 44 | If you see him , can you let him know that it 's 091 224 1671 , and that I should be in tomorrow evening until around 7:30 |
| 45 | No pornographer has ever been punished for being a woman-hater. but not too long ago information about female sexuality , contraception and abortion was assumed to be obscene . |
| 46 | With the land round Selsey and Chichester as an administrative base , the authority of the early kings of Sussex spread westwards into Hampshire and only partially east of the Ouse . |
| 47 | A year or so ago Business in the Community arranged for a number of the chief executives of some of the UK 's largest national and international corporations to spend a day in a school . |
| 48 | This opens the possibility ( and one acknowledged in conversation ) that communication could involve structured messages , perhaps even structure of the sort producing infinite generative capacity , without the creatures ever having passed the ‘ Gricean hump ’ that Bennett put them past even before occasion meaning had made its evolutionary debut . |
| 49 | In the past , the site 's been home to a church , a castle — perhaps even part of a palace . |
| 50 | The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant , and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence … would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness , of shattered surface , of climatic excess , as to threaten the depravation , barbarism , and perhaps even extinction of the species . |
| 51 | The kettle-out-of-tin-can-makers of Accra , the barefoot engineers of Bombay , and the hawkers of everything-under-the sun of Jakarta were showing flexibility and perhaps even salvation for the Third World poor . |
| 52 | Sociobiologists discuss genes for male chauvinism , feminism , communism and perhaps even belief in the tooth fairy , with the solemnity once reserved for debates on the number of angels that can dance on a pin head . |
| 53 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 54 | Can we please be prompt at nine o'clock tomorrow morning for the start of the sessions tomorrow . |
| 55 | So there position in nineteen forty nine was n't re in effect all that secure cos |
| 56 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 57 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 58 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 59 | Erm , now what that means is , if you ca n't answer the question and you 've only got a few lines down then sort of trying t w blur it a little bit and make it waffly so that there 's something we can point to and say that you 've written something , right ? |
| 60 | Of the remaining three , George Canning , the future prime minister , was only briefly ambassador in Lisbon in 1814 – 15 , when his political career at home was at a low ebb ; and the two others , Robert Liston and Stratford Canning , represented Britain in Constantinople , a very important post but one in which high social rank was not the advantage it was in the other great capitals . |