Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What was your priorities when you were doing that , what were your priorities as far as , was it to get it all down or was it just to get in down in a particular way what what do you see as the priorities when you were talking about doing it ? |
| 3 | what 's a black arrow pointing up over with a black arrow pointing down over in a triangle ? |
| 4 | I want to kiss you like a butterfly on mescaline , all over in a flurry of delirium , I want to bite you to the bones , to be so close to you there materialises a planet called us . |
| 5 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 6 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 7 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 8 | All Over in a Day |
| 9 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ One kept shouting to the other to get the money , but it was all over in a flash . |
| 11 | ‘ She 'd be better off in a house in Thirkett than stuck out here in that great barn of a place . |
| 12 | Very rare species have been known to be eliminated precisely because they are rare and would , in the collector 's opinion , be better off in a bottle in a museum for posterity . |
| 13 | Cardinals need a temperature between 73–79°F ( 23–26°C ) , and would be better off in a warmer tank of their own . |
| 14 | The male inmates who were accommodated in the House would be better off in a more suitable institution . |
| 15 | It feels the unit would be better off in a company willing to invest in and grow that line of business — it says it does not have the resources to devote to an operation that is outside its core business . |
| 16 | Conchis suddenly gaffed it into the boat , slashed its sac with a knife , turned it inside out in a moment . |
| 17 | The world seemed to tilt and spin and fold itself inside out in a volcanic eruption of pleasure … |
| 18 | It 's all round in a circle , it 's not like then , I do n't know why . |
| 19 | The Jerry troops just sort of walked right through in a lot of places , and the next thing anyone knew we were retreating . |
| 20 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 21 | And put it in bulk tanks you ken taking milk away down in a tank I mean we used to take it away in cans . |
| 22 | But the war was not over in a matter of weeks , and the Italian conscripts had neither the training nor the equipment to fight a winter campaign in Russia . |
| 23 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 24 | When Fagin left her , Nancy was already back in a drunken sleep , her head lying on the table once more . |
| 25 | Whatever its merits , however , it will have to live in the shadow of W T Stearn , whose magisterial Stearn 's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners is already out in a revised edition ( Cassell , 1992 , £16.99 , 0 304 34149 5 ) , and whose Botanical Latin has just appeared in a 4th edition ( David & Charles , £25 0 7153 0052 0 ) . |
| 26 | They lost Tony Cottey but Richards stood firm to finish on 44 not out in a total of 93 for four . |
| 27 | He wanted to write something which would be profoundly true and he would have liked to have corrected the image of Modigliani which developed very early on in a number of dubious publications . |
| 28 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 29 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 30 | Horne , whose passion was golf , seemed forever off in a taxi to address a meeting somewhere . |