Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked out of the sunlight into the cool dark shadow of the gorge , meeting no deity with oozy hair hot a couple eating sandwiches and two crag rats . |
| 2 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 3 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 4 | Cut the crap — he 's doing a handrail down a flight of steps , that 's all . |
| 5 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 6 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 7 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 8 | THE GROWTH of our London Division continues , and the latest to join the fold is SG Warburg , a highly prestigious contract only a stone 's throw away from the City Road office . |
| 9 | ‘ Greed , cynicism , the rotters and the agents have spoiled it , ’ McIlvanney reflects bitterly , ‘ the rotters ’ being the trade term for journalists trained to sniff out sensation or scandal , or failing that , to drop a cheque down a hole and see who bites . |
| 10 | That narrows the field down a bit , if it 's correct . |
| 11 | In order to allow the experiment to be completed by subjects in one hour only a subset of the original films from Studies 2 and 3 were used . |
| 12 | Ideally an entry which is at present only a cross-reference might be better made into a full entry , while the existing entries might be better turned into cross-references , and so on . |
| 13 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |
| 14 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 15 | What we are talking about is moving the responsibility down a stage so that there is a system in place that recognises individual club players and helps them when they move up . |
| 16 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election only a handful of very small parties that were genuinely political fielded candidates . |
| 17 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 18 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 19 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 20 | It is of course only a question of time and evolution . |
| 21 | Later my father again applied for leave of absence , which Your Grace refused to grant , though you permitted me , who am in any case only a half-time servant , to travel alone . |
| 22 | When ( and only when ) five items have accumulated by being added at the end of the previous complete sentence , you reply with the type of shop — in this case obviously a chemist 's shop . |
| 23 | He flicked a switch on a console and said . |
| 24 | To combat the opposite extreme of jerry-building , we would make membership of the Housebuilders ' Registration Council 's register compulsory upon all contractors for local authority houses , with a view to rendering the building industry eventually an industry subject throughout to publicly-approved standards . |
| 25 | After scouring through several reports , he ran his forefinger down a column of figures and discovered the facts behind the old woman 's plight : commodity prices are plunging . |
| 26 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 27 | You 've got the notes a b c d e f sharp g sharp a coming down a g sharp f sharp , well it 's not the bloody minor scale then is it ? |
| 28 | The scales suggest the scales of a fish rather than armour ; was the priest perhaps a priest of Poteidan ? |
| 29 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |