Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 It has since been cared for rather better and now appears much improved .
2 In fact you wo n't be able to get through right now but keep on calling , that 's and we 'll send you a pair of tickets , we need your postcode and we 'll send 'em first class .
3 So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this , in a very poor state of repair .
4 Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere .
5 It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added .
6 Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not .
7 She had been assisted on humanitarian grounds for long enough and her allegations ‘ came forth when the assistance ceased ’ , it said .
8 Fish can not swim fast enough for long enough and so can not porpoise — but they do not need to surface for air and so can swim at depth to reduce drag .
9 Watch the queues for long enough and you see them emptying their bowls and going back , not twice , but three times .
10 I realised that men in politics had dominated world attitudes for long enough and although they claimed to be experts on everything , my experience showed that they understood very little .
11 A pier is a disappointed bridge ; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel .
12 ‘ Stay here for long enough and you 'll soon learn , ’ Lucy assured her while containing her amusement with difficulty .
13 Shuffle it between enough parties for long enough and and the issues will get lost .
14 You see the same thing in our kind of business , but we 've really been operating in international markets for much longer and it 's a slower process .
15 Fourth cousins by marriage , the girls had been aware of each other for much longer and had a number of friends in common .
16 The disagreement between the State and Defense departments could not continue for much longer and President Truman , in the light of representations from the allies and bearing in mind the restless attitude developing in Japan , determined to proceed .
17 For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools .
18 Colin McRae says it wo n't make the car much quicker but it will allow the driver to hang onto the steering wheel for much longer and will require less effort .
19 But he told the Legislative Council : ‘ We do recognise that the current uncertain situation can not be allowed to continue for much longer and that we will need to gazette the bill if a decision on talks ca n't be reached imminently . ’
20 Anna 's affair went on for much longer and she became so dependent on it that there was no way she could go back .
21 she 's getting through all right and that one 's getting through all right , yeah she 's coming next to us .
22 At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear .
23 It is a striking reminder of the pastoral rural life of long ago and the first pointer to the fact that one is entering ancient quarters .
24 On the contrary , the story in the Gospels is often utterly divorced from all historical context — a narrative of stark , timeless , mythic simplicity enacted in a sort of limbo , a never-never-land of long ago and far away .
25 Colourful houses are on every side , with frescoes celebrating heroes of long ago and episodes that are remembered from centuries back in Swiss history .
26 This is a refinement you thought of only recently and are quietly proud of .
27 IT was a case of so near and yet so far for Linfield at Windsor Park last night .
28 He would have to be seen a.s.a.p. , and would have to come up with a satisfactory explanation of exactly why and when he 'd left The Randolph .
29 It had been torched quickly , gleefully , unconstrained by any outsider 's opinions of just how or when it should be done .
30 It 's the only dignified way of telling them that you 're not going to be made a fool of any longer and you 're not going to be dragged down to their level . ’
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