Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster . |
| 2 | Now the school bus , full of disappointed kids , wends it 's way twice daily down a country lane lined with equally disappointed farmers who stare wistfully into the distance , recalling the heady days of four-legged Formula 1 racing ! |
| 3 | Russell Telford , 29 , stayed halfway down a pit shaft for nine hours after threatening a lift operator at Markham Main colliery , South Yorkshire . |
| 4 | They should be all over the place — especially where least expected — halfway down a leg , on a collar , cuff or elbow for instance . |
| 5 | ‘ How did the mice come to be halfway down a cliff in the first place ? ’ he had asked her . |
| 6 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 7 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 8 | Another movement flickered , and halfway up a dune something seemed to vanish — she saw , clearly , the sand slide and some bent Starr grass spring back . |
| 9 | A corn bunting was singing halfway up a pylon , short bursts of jangling notes . |
| 10 | Cobalt and the white-haired woman were halfway up a flight of stairs . |
| 11 | I was only back a couple of days and it started again . |
| 12 | I do n't mind that so much though , 'cos they say we are paying a lot less back a month than other way . |
| 13 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 14 | When a series of such images , running vertically down a strip of film , is projected at 24 frames a second ( fps ) in the cinema , or 25 fps on ( British ) TV , an illusion of movement is created because of a retinal property known as ‘ persistence of vision ’ , which in normal life enables us to perceive the world as a continuous flow , not an infinite series of separate moments . |
| 15 | Or , or just , or just up a bit ? |
| 16 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 17 | Gorbachev declared that 1990 " could become a genuine turning point in the effort to limit and reduce arms " and that it would " open up a period of genuine [ US-Soviet ] co-operation [ aimed at building ] a world ruling out subversive action , pressure , interference and armed invasions " . |
| 18 | The Hotel Pinar is just back a bit from the beach , with its own pool and an à la carte restaurant set on a roof terrace overlooking the wooded landscape towards the sea . |
| 19 | Under chapter 11 , two-thirds of creditors , of preference shareholders and of equity shareholders must separately back a deal before it can go ahead . |
| 20 | I 'll ask Michael Colgan now to take us a bit further down a look at the costs . |
| 21 | It 's not up an awful lot but it is still up a bit . |
| 22 | Further up a Mr Hinton opened a steam-driven mill at Torreão . |
| 23 | He led her quickly up a staircase which began by being broad and stone and went on up to twist woodenly to the top of the tower . |
| 24 | The sentence : ‘ Algerian milk runs quickly up a drainpipe ’ has almost certainly never appeared in print before ( another NI first ) but you know exactly what is meant . |
| 25 | The further back a collector goes , the more he will have to pay . |
| 26 | If there was one thing that got right up a nome 's nose , it was someone saying , ‘ Here is a really sensible idea . |
| 27 | We then left the tramway ( grid reference SH 822 113 ) , though I mean to explore it more fully on a future occasion , and turned right up a forest track past some quarry buildings . |
| 28 | Later on a neighbour sold us a reckling — that 's the runt of the litter , too small to be really valuable — and I did name him . |
| 29 | For the next 35 years , almost without a break , Asimov produced 90 words a minute , eight hours a day , seven days a week , first on a typewriter and later on a word processor , and he invariably wrote three books at once . |
| 30 | Men with local influence were again prominent — Edward IV relied on William Herbert , whom he made earl of Pembroke , and later on a council nominally under the prince of Wales , Richard III on his ally the duke of Buckingham , who was lord of the castle of Brecon , until the latter revolted , and Henry VII on his uncle Jasper Tudor . |