Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll be sending one of our own men in in a few minutes . ’ |
| 2 | Compare the description of the agony in In the Same boat ( a story the end of which is truer to the experience than i– the end of The Brushwood Boy ) : ‘ Suppose you were a violin string — vibrating — and someone put his finger on you ’ with the image of the ‘ banjo string drawn tight ’ for the breaking wave in The finest Story in the World . |
| 3 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
| 4 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 5 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 6 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 7 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 8 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 9 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
| 10 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 11 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Parkinson is with Sir Ewen in the big house , but he 'll be along in a few minutes , ’ Bob informed them after Maggie explained why she was there . |
| 13 | I have another important foreign call coming through in a few minutes , so , if you 'll excuse me , I 'll hand you over to the Chief Accountant now . " |
| 14 | But , and I 'm not promising , the sun might break through in a few favoured spots . |
| 15 | However , this result does not carry through in the same way to the cases we have just been discussing where managerial utility depends on effort as well as income . |
| 16 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 17 | The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words . |
| 18 | It was over in a few seconds . |
| 19 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 20 | Wars had been fought before by the regular Army , and this one , it was supposed , would be the same : it would be over in a few months , it not weeks . |
| 21 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 22 | I just thought that the war would be fought far away , like the one in Abyssinia , and that it would be over in a few days , or weeks at the most . |
| 23 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 24 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 25 | To get all the silly voices over in the same day Johnnie Walker will be presenting his morning programme on Radio 5 from there on Thursday . |
| 26 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 27 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 28 | ‘ It 'll switch itself off in a few seconds . ’ |
| 29 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 30 | The first is in relation to debtor-creditor-supplier agreements where the amount owed is to be paid off in a few instalments . |