Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 2 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 3 | Gertrude stopped working , and collapsed ponderously on to a seat . |
| 4 | You know , wiping er a body down , you know , wiping it right down with a , with a mutton cloth we call it . |
| 5 | Bravura camerawork conspires with a scarce script and some edgy cutting to exploit every ounce of tension , right down to a killer ending . |
| 6 | Well , she went right down to a size ten when she lost all that weight before . |
| 7 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to write a thoughtful song about recent events , and it was important that I just did n't leap right in with an immediate gut reaction . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And sat wearily down with a grunt and a frown |
| 11 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 12 | The bedroom was insufferably dark , though if he insisted that the drapes be further drawn they would open only on to a dour and leaden sky . |
| 13 | ‘ More wine ? ’ she asked , throwing her coat carelessly on to a sofa in the drawing-room . |
| 14 | Melissa put an arm round her and , at a sign from Madame Delon , led her into the salon , pushed her gently on to a couch and sat down beside her . |
| 15 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 16 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 17 | ‘ We were only in for a quiet drink , is a' . ' |
| 18 | So he was only in for a couple of days then ? |
| 19 | From the steep sheep-bitten turf at the head of these cliffs the land slopes gently down towards a glen where the island 's only sizeable river runs seawards out of a loch cupped in a shallow basin among low hills . |
| 20 | The road drooped gently down to a ford . |
| 21 | The bungalow did n't look so large from the back , just discreetly expensive , a low white outline from which the lawn sloped gently down to a neat concreted waterside . |
| 22 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
| 23 | Some purpose-built blocks of flats fortunately have rubbish chutes on each landing , which means that you can dispose of the rubbish daily down to a large bin . |
| 24 | An introduction to a DDL for each type of system is discussed below along with a description of the ways in which the data could be accessed and updated using the Data Manipulation Language ( DML ) . |
| 25 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 26 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 27 | So what I 'm gon na do is use the , let's see , it 's minus three , plus I 'll minus the square in B square , sixteen strand , minus four times the eight , nine C , well I 'm gon na do that , four times eight , nine C , equals plus nine all over to A , just two . |
| 28 | I think it 's all over for a long time . |
| 29 | Finding decent practice facilities was a constant headache , leading to some crazy situations ; in St Vincent , for example , Ken Barrington , the assistant manager , hunted all over for a place for Boycott to practise , and eventually found a piece of flat ground near the airport which had ducks waddling around and a donkey at long leg . |
| 30 | Place one cake on a serving plate , spike all over with a skewer and lace with half the kirsch . |