Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made several speeches in the Lords propounding my belief that the Biafran side should have had our support , and I still believe we would have been very much better off had that ensued . |
| 2 | Clearly you do n't want to know all the syllabus so you 're gon na miss parts out but you 're better off knowing more topics in case some of the questions are difficult on the ones that you 've covered or they 're not on there at all When is the exam ? |
| 3 | and I suppose , you know , they 're perhaps better off buying these disposable nappies . |
| 4 | I 'd have been better off keeping that one two . |
| 5 | You 're better off rewording that criterion to say as close en er to York as is consistent with greenbelt policy . |
| 6 | Apart from anything else you 're seconded to our team now so asking you to leave is n't entirely up to IMP any more . ’ |
| 7 | The doors of the classrooms along it had handwritten cards drawing-pinned to them saying things like ‘ Course 21B : Italian ’ or ‘ Over 60s Metalworking ’ and one that said ‘ Blue Tit Patrol ’ pinned high enough up to avoid any graffiti . |
| 8 | The Latics were one of only four sides to beat the League champions last season and Royle said : ‘ They will be going all out to put that right . ’ |
| 9 | I went , I went all out to get this place in nineteen eighty three |
| 10 | Anyway , we were all soon off to start another morning 's work . |
| 11 | ‘ And I 'm just off to buy more wallpaper paste for her . ’ |
| 12 | And we really are not out to kill each other in the way that quite often those awards would lead one to believe . |
| 13 | He 's not out to break any records , but says the bike is capable of some very high speeds . |
| 14 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 15 | Nevertheless out came some of the most astonishing , though very practical ways to both have your cake and eat it . |
| 16 | I I I 'm just about to do that |
| 17 | Well I was just about to do that . |
| 18 | In fact I was just about to do this when Mr Gillis decided he was ready . |
| 19 | well I was , I was get , I was just about to mention that |
| 20 | I was just about to put some more out . |
| 21 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 22 | She walked hastily from him and into the store-room , and he followed her , and they were just about to confront each other again when the back door leading into the yard opened and there , revealed in the gaslight , was Jessie . |
| 23 | I was just about to make that point and I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman raised it . |
| 24 | She was just about to make some coffee , when the front door bell rang . |
| 25 | ‘ I was just about to make some iced tea . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
| 27 | Having discovered all this at life 's two-furlong pole , Piggott is not about to let some doctor tell him that he wo n't finish the race — especially not an American doctor . |
| 28 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 29 | Believe me , I 'm not a magician and I 'm not about to cast some awful spell on you . |
| 30 | ‘ We are not about to put that to the test . |