Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | Right about now a tactful change of subject seemed in order . |
| 3 | Only from ‘ position A ’ do they present a target large enough for even a short iron . |
| 4 | Breakfast comes mainly buffet style and is ample enough for even the heartiest of appetites . |
| 5 | We do n't have beef very often , but you get a bit small enough for just the two of you , by the time you 've cooked it |
| 6 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 7 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 8 | The theory of the traumatic beginnings of human culture which I have just summarized seems to explain much about both the ego and society , but it does have one very obvious weakness . |
| 9 | If the music should go on past 10 o'clock for even a minute or two , Muriel is out and about . |
| 10 | In reality it is impossible to estimate the probabilities P ( wi|w1 , … , wi-1 ) for all but very small values of i , and only for quite a small vocabulary . |
| 11 | Just leave it on basically for about an hour as long as you 're having a conversation |
| 12 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 13 | However , Lucy managed to convey that she intended to stay for several days , or perhaps for even a week . |
| 14 | Incontrovertibly , therefore , Johnson had embraced Jacobitism to some degree of sympathy at some stage , and perhaps even quite vehemently , and perhaps for quite a long period of his life — but , as with the formation of many political tastes and stances , the dalliance owed as much to what he disliked ( the Hanoverian kings ) as to what he espoused and idealised . |
| 15 | ‘ So for once the met forecast people got it right . |
| 16 | So for once the sort of comment John would make face to face with other collaborators is actually recorded . |
| 17 | My friend , who has stayed at the cottage before , is going up 24th or so for about a week , so there will be her rent @ £7 per day and electricity @ 10p per unit ( to cover standing charges etc ) to come to you in due course . |
| 18 | She wore a very sparkly large diamond engagement ring and had done so for about a year . |
| 19 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 20 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 21 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
| 22 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 23 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 24 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 25 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 26 | So much depends on Wright , still seeking his first England goal , and Shearer , who play together for only the second time . |
| 27 | They had practised together for only an hour , yet it seemed like an eternity . |
| 28 | It 's only worth about a hundred pounds . |
| 29 | It 's probably only worth about a tenner . |
| 30 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |