Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people . |
| 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 | The buildings were transformed rather successfully into a gallery for Bohemian art by František Cubr and Josef Pilar , in the 1960s . |
| 5 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 6 | Well , she went right down to a size ten when she lost all that weight before . |
| 7 | Bravura camerawork conspires with a scarce script and some edgy cutting to exploit every ounce of tension , right down to a killer ending . |
| 8 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 9 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 10 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 11 | Come on in for a cup of tea … " |
| 12 | In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein . |
| 13 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals . |
| 15 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 16 | And sat wearily down with a grunt and a frown |
| 17 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Which brings us on nicely to a discussion of pyroclastic rocks themselves . |
| 20 | Athenagoras , the Syracusan demagogue , is made by Thucydides ( vi.38 ) to say that Syracuse ‘ is only rarely in a state of internal peace ’ . |
| 21 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 22 | forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ? |
| 23 | ‘ More wine ? ’ she asked , throwing her coat carelessly on to a sofa in the drawing-room . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ You can do that all right with a stew , ’ said Penelope . |
| 26 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 28 | You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ? |
| 29 | It 's all right for a man ; men are used to smutty books and vulgar jokes — women do n't go for things like that . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |