Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these were frequently in technical language and sold in only a few outlets ; and many clergy were not concerned with encouraging the laity to grapple with complex issues . |
| 2 | And Muscat , produced in either a dry , sweet and sour style , pungent and uniquely grapey , or the unctuously sweet , late-picked versions . |
| 3 | However , works produced in only a small number of copies are often not received in terms of the Copyright Act , and instead are purchased to ensure that a copy is added to the collection . |
| 4 | This idea finds an echo in many African countries but assumes a Marxist-Leninist view of the economic and social order found in only a handful of African ruling élites . |
| 5 | ‘ When we first moved in over a year ago I wrote to the police in the traffic section at Winchester about the situation in Holybourne , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |
| 6 | It might be an idea actually if we moved out just a little bit Tracey . |
| 7 | I was born in Buckinghamshire , my father was a farm worker , so we moved round quite a bit . |
| 8 | We got over quite a lot of old problems . |
| 9 | I played on there a good many times . |
| 10 | ‘ Pitches were uncovered than and we played on quite a few tracks that were damp , ’ Tribe says . |
| 11 | We have our debt itself , the gross debt , which came down about a hundred and twenty million and that is all set by a substantially increased cash balance . |
| 12 | ‘ Euthanasia is seen as part of good terminal care , practised in only a few cases , the less the better , ’ said Prof Borst-Eilers . |
| 13 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 14 | Having managed to come by a decent bit of steak and kidney , he stood over the young maid , who came in once a week , until she had managed to produce a pie , later warmed up for dinner in the microwave . |
| 15 | She seemed in quite a hurry . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ El-Gama'a el-Islamiya asserts that the blood of Ahmed Zaki and his men , who have avenged the blood of tens of militants spilled over almost a year in Egypt , will not dry until the blood of revenge flows , ’ the militants said in a statement . |
| 17 | The treaty , negotiated over almost a decade , set a seven-year timetable for the reduction by 30 per cent of the nuclear arsenals of the USA and the nuclear republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) — Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Russia and the Ukraine . |
| 18 | and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad . |
| 19 | Er , and I did have er , somebody who came up about a year ago , and , and said do you talk to all your clients like this , and I said no , no it 's only at Tarmac . |
| 20 | I made myself pretty busy : got pissed , went and screamed at Jamie , saw a million movies , realised with horror that that ate up only a week . |
| 21 | It seems a couple of them came out here a time or two , asked a few questions , shrugged their shoulders and took themselves off . ’ |
| 22 | The foreman of the Lord Warden 's Forest Rangers was with him and they came out twice a day to the lip of Steep Ridgery , early in the morning and again towards sunset , to look out at the smoke . |
| 23 | This book came out about a year ago but merits a mention because the subject matter will interest quite a number of our members . |
| 24 | ‘ New Jack City came out about a week before we started shooting , and I did n't even know what it would look like . |
| 25 | The lane wound in wide loops all the way to Applewick , but by footpath there was a short cut across a field , through a wood , and then across another field , which came out only a few yards beyond the low bridge . |
| 26 | The Office of Fair Trading 's report on the subject came out only a few days before , and Mr Blair introduced it . |
| 27 | Her whole idea of the world 's work was derived from what she observed there and had little in common with the circulation of the great city which toiled on only a hundred yards away . |
| 28 | Wan and red-eyed , and nearly always male , they wore rebel chic regalia and communicated in either a hyperactive babble or a laboured monotone . |
| 29 | So I turned down quite a few sitcoms . |
| 30 | He slipped his arm protectively round Agnes Dooley 's shoulder as the carriage dipped and the leading compartment turned through almost a complete right angle . |