Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's you know she do n't get what you 're on about for a minute . |
| 2 | Also Bosanquet has argued vigorously for over a decade — and has not been alone — that this suggests that younger age cohorts are growing up fitter and will not necessarily need such varied and prolonged care in the future . |
| 3 | but erm so had it been a Foxhalls , something about a minute no , he said only for about a mile , that was it . |
| 4 | I 've been inside for over a decade , the fact that I could be out soon cares me . |
| 5 | It 's only about like a pound |
| 6 | At the Plain roundabout go straight over into Cowley Road and continue along for about a mile and a half . |
| 7 | They both liked it , and began going out together for about a month until he left to do summer stock in Fishkill , NY , and she went to Philadelphia where she was chosen as a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet . |
| 8 | So as as a youth and a child she did n't take , |
| 9 | So after about a couple of bouts , I thought , alright , and it suddenly dawned on me I did n't know how to stop the tractor . |
| 10 | And they would n't come in onto to a property . |
| 11 | Now obviously in in a situation where a head gasket goes , there 's no problem on that because that 's straightforward . |
| 12 | A long-net is erected in from of a wood to demonstrate its appearance . |
| 13 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 14 | They would be able to do so only from about a metre away , however , because even the muscles ' discharges are tiny . |
| 15 | Come back down in about a fortnight |
| 16 | I 'm going down in about a month 's time . |
| 17 | BGS has developed high-frequency sources and receivers for acoustic imaging that can resolve features down to about a metre . |
| 18 | This is really what it comes down to in a variety of ways . |
| 19 | Slim tree trunks with the branches cut down to within a foot of the bole were placed against the battlements , and men began to climb up them . |
| 20 | You could never be absolutely sure , Jasper thought , that up there in the tunnel roof there would n't be some great iron bar or post sticking down to within an inch or two of the top of the car . |
| 21 | If you 've got the right name , if you 've a a number of or something coming in to for a part and of of them you 've seen on television and done a lot equally or as good or better , but you 're gon na be go for that one probably . |
| 22 | When Ivy went he took clerk with them down at as a witness . |
| 23 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 24 | They they just as as a storage space . |
| 25 | Forced to flee the Nazis in 1937 — leaving behind the 20,000 bibliography volumes — the older Breslauer resettled his family in London but was killed shortly after in an air-raid . |
| 26 | IT 'S AMAZING how much a government can get away with during an election . |
| 27 | Even without this icing on the cake , I suspect that the set would be the ideal ‘ book ’ for a physicist to be cast away with on a desert island , provided paper and pencils were also supplied . |
| 28 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 29 | You can also be more experimental in a story , write in the person of a ghost or a cat , do things you could n't get away with in a novel . |
| 30 | Finally in Between a balance is struck between the proliferation of metaphor on the one hand , and fixed semantic boundaries on the other , and it is in the more formally controlled context of this novel that discursive metaphor achieves the full realization of its potential as an agent of linguistic and conceptual refraction . |