Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun prp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Until the arrival of the NBS , the pump pulled the water down through Springflo an open-cell foam media contained in a dustbin-like container . |
2 | Dr Curtis came in with Humber a few minutes later . |
3 | He had come down from Oxford a few months ago obsessed with the idea of social service . |
4 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
5 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
6 | From Sigriswil the road leads down to Gunten an attractive lakeside resort facing the Niesen across the lake , with very active sailing and windsurfing schools . |
7 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
8 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
9 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
10 | A firm is not in England a legal personality distinct from its members , though in Scotland a firm is a legal person distinct from the partners of whom it is composed ( partnership Act 1890 , s. 4 ) . |
11 | Thus in France a quickening movement favouring patronal associations in the 1890s was in part a defensive response to a trade union movement which was about to adopt an ideology of radical syndicalism that appeared more threatening . |
12 | Kate 's family came over from Ireland a long time ago and their closest contact to the soil is the odd spot of weekend gardening , but Kate associates closely with the dispossessed peasantry of old Ireland , and anywhere else for that matter , and taters brings out the culchie in her . |
13 | Elsewhere in Britain a new type of museum developed in America to view the wrecks of sunken ships in situ may be used for the 30,000 ton ‘ Lusitania ’ torpedoed off the Irish coast by a German U-boat in 1915 with the loss of 1,198 lives . |
14 | Finally in October a new stage was reached in the Group 's exchange programme with Jiao Tong University , Shanghai by receiving Professors Ye Dun-ping and Wang Qin-he of the Department of Social Science and Social Engineering . |
15 | Just before Marsworth a four mile circular walk leaves the canal at Watery Lane , follows a short section of the Grand Union Canal proper going north before returning across the fields to the car park at Startop 's End Reservoir . |
16 | Elizabeth Mowbray , accompanied by her daughter and a large entourage , set forth from Framlingham a few weeks later . |
17 | ‘ I remember now , he 's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago . ’ |
18 | This toy is still to Shanti a great treasure . |
19 | Little ball up to Speedy drops it off to Thomson a good through ball to a running forward Jochim . |
20 | They had to meet up with Nellie a great deal as she was supervising the school 's wardrobe . |
21 | Also on Wednesday a six tonne magnet , the key to the scanner , was delivered to the Yarm Road industrial estate site . |
22 | This year our resorts offer something for everyone and the only problem is deciding where to go , but wherever you end up on Corfu a great time is guaranteed . |
23 | The question is now for England an academic one ; for statutes , ranging from 1753 to 1986 , have prescribed the formalities necessary for a valid marriage . |
24 | He was only out of Yoxford a little way , and a friend of mine and myself we saw him coming — Sam James was his name . |
25 | Coming out of Beckley a wandering Triumph Herald forced us to check the anti-lock brakes ( they work , and well ) . |
26 | One of the organisers , Charles Rigby , put the whole thing into proportion as I was anxiously sorting out with Clare a second name for the next-of-kin slot at the back of her passport . |
27 | ‘ We took the kids out in Windsor a few nights ago and after the meal Ally sang , ‘ It 's now or never ’ to me by the castle . |
28 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
29 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
30 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |