Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former England batsman Bill Athey is leaving Gloucestershire after turning down a new two-year contract . |
| 2 | His films were relatively few and he felt confident enough to turn down a good many more films than a hungrier actor might have felt was healthy . |
| 3 | I thought I would go and take one of the head ones and journey along down to that place and so , you know , is there any chance you slipping me down a good four long ones and if he says no , think again ? |
| 4 | He had Lucia 's father 's body brought down a fiendish spiral staircase to centre stage — the singer was convinced that his bearers would drop him , so Menotti 's secretary had to play the corpse — and the opera closed in a graveyard cloaked in drifting snow . |
| 5 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 6 | Lucca 's , across the lorry-ridden road and down a small sour-smelling alley , was as small as the shop from which Fosdyke had led them . |
| 7 | Grant was moving steadily down a long gentle slope . |
| 8 | After dropping 100m in about 4.5 miles , a sneaky left hand turn ( just after you come to some dry stone walls ) led us down a long rough track to the Low Mill — Gillamoor road . |
| 9 | As an immigrant , one spent an inordinate amount of time staring down a long narrow hall , at the end of which , behind the immigration officers , was a divided staircase . |
| 10 | Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse . |
| 11 | You 're running down a long silent street . |
| 12 | ‘ If I wanted to bring him down a teeny-weeny heat-seeking missile would do the job very effectively . |
| 13 | It is augmented by tributaries and the magnificent waterfall of Steall and then plunges down a rocky wooded gorge , finally to travel on a more tranquil course to its destiny in Loch Linnhe . |
| 14 | About six months after the dinner party she realised that , for the first time in her life , she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove , whose garden specialised in old roses , and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings . |
| 15 | Slowly we drove down a broad unpaved street lined with matchbox-houses . |
| 16 | The famine simply must end today if Koppelaar 's team are to hold down a crucial fourth slot in Pool A which would keep alive their chances of reaching hockey 's premier event for only the third time . |
| 17 | It can be a gentle paddle on sluggish water or a 25 yd shoot down a narrow rocky gut under the trees . |
| 18 | If the Spey is down , however , there is a final 25 yd shoot down a narrow rocky little gut under the same trees . |
| 19 | He and I may be strange companions in the same lobby but I am certain he has put his finger on an error which condemns many modern Church leaders to disappear down a theological black hole . |
| 20 | This lays down a general statutory objective of making provision for new or better ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of person providing them , while maintaining the proper and efficient administration of justice . |
| 21 | He wound his way through us as we sat fascinated at the sight as Geordie tiptoed down the beach towards the sea , his top part a deep tan , from the waist down a dirty white colour . |
| 22 | He went to the far kitchen wall and took down a large hanging scales . |
| 23 | Then , from a shelf in the pantry , she took down a large covered dish , sniffed at the contents , and , smiling now on the child , said , ‘ Nothing much goes rotten in here . |
| 24 | But as we travelled down a lovely wooded valley towards the north coast at Alta , the sun appeared below the clouds near midnight and we stopped to take our first pictures of the midnight sun . |
| 25 | The FTSE index of the leading 100 companies opened down a marginal 1.1 at 2704.5 , with interest focused more closely on political uncertainty at home ahead of tonight 's Europe vote . |
| 26 | God she 's written down a massive great essay oh my God ! |
| 27 | Meanwhile the world 's top players have turned down a tempting financial offer aimed at attracting them away from the Ulster Milk Games match between Europe and Asia in Belfast on June 8 . |
| 28 | Rustling in her stiff new overall — Mr Mulgrove 's administrative eye had rested in disappointment on the extra foot of Anna 's grey corduroy skirt that hung below it — Anna followed Tim out of the warehouse and down a grim cold staircase on to the shop floor . |
| 29 | The same position was reflected in the third recital in the Preamble to Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down a common structural policy for the fishing industry ( Official Journal 1976 No . |
| 30 | As far as fishing vessels are concerned , the principle is , moreover , expressly set out in article 2(1) of Council Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 of 19 January 1976 laying down a common structural policy for the fishing industry ( Official Journal 1976 No . |