Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I would have been killing myself laughing if the team were n't battling away so furiously for a winner and the whole place going mad . |
| 3 | " Hmm , well , " Slater said , bobbing his head in an arc — a gesture somewhere between a nod and a shake — " thick set , certainly , and not ally bright , but God those shoulders . |
| 4 | A huge cheer — somewhere between a wolf-whistle and a blown kiss — went up from the Tory backbenches . |
| 5 | Benedict uttered , somewhere between a scold and a caress . |
| 6 | The sentence was somewhere between a question and a statement . |
| 7 | The taste is somewhere between a guava and a grape . |
| 8 | Now it has not always been easy to warm to England 's rugby followers , whose customary note is somewhere between a bray and a bellow . |
| 9 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 10 | Whereupon the traveller in jelly uttered a sound somewhere between a groan and a hiccup , and studied the design on his tie . |
| 11 | But when he argued over the great issues of human belief , he still did so in the tone which he reserved for the politics of the pavement and the public baths , the voice pitched somewhere between a sneer and a snarl . |
| 12 | There is an alternative , more optimistic view that some people in education are expressing , which sees the current changes as somewhere between an irrelevance and a minor irritation in terms of their own aims and practices . |
| 13 | They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid . |
| 14 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 15 | It extended a few of its probes , which swung around slowly for a while and then pointed towards the going-up jet . |
| 16 | From the very first , he painted professionally for a living and achieved fame primarily for his paintings of Nelsonian and Roman events . |
| 17 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 18 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 19 | Of the other large groups of courses , PGCE Primary students on between a quarter and a third of the courses received little on The Language of Specialist Subjects , Standard Language , Accent and Dialect , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research . |
| 20 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 21 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ An officer signalled for her to stop but she carried on for a mile and mounted the kerb on one occasion , ’ Tony Malyon , prosecuting , told Pontypool magistrates . |
| 23 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
| 24 | Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ . |
| 25 | so you 've turned your kilow three kilowatt heater on for an hour and I 'm gon na charge you , le let's say , thirty pence . |
| 26 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 27 | Barnes , playing his first game since rupturing his Achilles tendon in the summer , came on as a substitute and set-up the 87th-minute winner for Ronnie Rosenthal in their 1–0 victory over QPR . |
| 28 | ‘ Hopefully I 'll be able to carry on as an amateur and help mum in the shop . ’ |
| 29 | You were the person they looked on as an authority and father figure , a trust you clearly betrayed . |
| 30 | My youngest daughter , Fleur , perhaps as a defence and because being the youngest she could n't conceive of a world without her father — I hope I 'm not kidding myself here — gave the impression that all was well . |