Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 2 | One of the frustrations of being in opposition for so long to what is , in effect , a minority Government is having to watch this country go on for such a long time without any energy policy . |
| 3 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |
| 4 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 5 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 6 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 7 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 8 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 9 | The evening gala dinner was held at Yew Lodge , and after Club Secretary Stewart Wilson read out some dubious ‘ alternative ’ golf rules , all settled back to enjoy the good food , and good company , washed down with many a long winded golfing yarn . |
| 10 | Mind you , we 'll go buy some and your Corrinne 'll be down with half a bag or summat daft like that ! |
| 11 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 12 | According to Behbehanian. the Queen rushed out and declared that the Shah would go along with such a plan " over my dead body " . |
| 13 | With Pamela it was always the same — do n't worry , we do n't need it , the bills are all covered , I can take care of everything — but Josie would rather have packed her bags and moved out than go along with such a line . |
| 14 | Okay , so are , so , so it 's just tha tha tha that along with this a psychological context , so you got a biological and psychological going hand-in-hand simultaneously . |
| 15 | Lymington DSFC member Kevin Barton took a 2 lb 14 oz plaice along with half a dozen flounder in one session . |
| 16 | Trent dived overboard along with half a dozen crew and Maria Magdalena surged ahead . |
| 17 | We 've got a group of journalists , twelve journalists , from Dubai in Bath today and erm some , a wave of journalists coming in from Saudi a little later in the month , so everything 's happening and there 's a erm tremendous amount of activity going on to restimulate the market . |
| 18 | How would they shake down in such a confined space with what amounted to more than two and a half ? |
| 19 | Lawyers should be ashamed that they have allowed the law of defamation to have become bogged down in such a mass of technicalities that this should be possible . " |
| 20 | New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14 . |
| 21 | On the negative side , the small shareholder may find himself scaled down to such a small stake that a sizeable portion of profits would be wiped off by share-dealing costs . |
| 22 | This approach thus represents an extension of the hierarchical system and can be considered to simplify down to such a system when each of the superior states are considered in turn . |
| 23 | There was no hint that Waringstown would be kept down to such a moderate total when Shane Harrison and Brian Sturgeon put on 46 for the first wicket . |
| 24 | I think she down to five a day now five today is it ? |
| 25 | The idea is to create employment until the total unemployment is brought down to half a million . |
| 26 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 27 | ‘ Cut down to twenty a day . ’ |
| 28 | He was n't sure he wanted to be in on such a dangerous idea . |
| 29 | As a result , Brown reckons that the two companies are eager to cash in on such a base to generate interest in their own products . |
| 30 | Thank you all for coming , I know that it 's , it just shows how interested some of us are that you are coming in on such a nice day as this to hear Doreen Griffiths ’ The Cinderella Army ’ or the Land Army , and I must say just reading these bits up here now , I 've got lots of questions I want to ask her when she 's finished , so we 'll let her tell |