Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean the way he walked out right through the wall rather than bothering with the doorway , chief ? ’ |
| 3 | He was aware of the lath and plaster clinging to the bottom of the joists ; put a foot through that and you 'd be right through the ceiling below ; chap could fall slap into the bath from here , probably ; or into the twins ' room , maybe ; perish the thought ; daddy coming crashing through the ceiling , give the little perishers nightmares for the rest of their lives . |
| 4 | David Booth took 30 seconds to give them the lead , taking advantage of a defender 's clearance which deflected freakishly off an onrushing forward and into his path . |
| 5 | Yet as they continued on through the shallows so birds wheeled about them in alarm , and creatures shifted in the undergrowth . |
| 6 | He concludes that ‘ the people who should know most about the problem often do n't recognise it ’ . |
| 7 | That means the big defender , who has graduated successfully through the Ulster Under 16 , Under 18 and Under 21 teams , was eligible for senior selection . |
| 8 | The conversation was picked up from somewhere off the floor once dessert arrived and the three of them were talking again . |
| 9 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 10 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Go on about the pig now ! ’ said Maisie . |
| 12 | Well we went every day on about the mail so it was a passenger service that really started off in nineteen fifty five but we bought maybe in nineteen fifty three or fifty four . |
| 13 | They found the babies who were left for longer began to make crawling movements towards the breast after 20 minutes , and after 50 minutes virtually all had suckled correctly at the breast — and were more likely to breastfeed successfully as a result afterwards . |
| 14 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 15 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 16 | His first sight of her was reassuringly normal : a tall , dark girl dressed in a good grey suit of the type favoured by Francesca , which acted effectively as a uniform without doing much for her . |
| 17 | Put that heater on then would you that one on for a while just before they come . |
| 18 | The reminders of the V-Force will live on for a while yet until the Victors are retired so perhaps we will see more of this not unimpressive aircraft in 1993 . |
| 19 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 20 | If your record starts to pick up air play and get reviewed just after three weeks , it may be worth keeping your plugger and press officer on for a bit longer . |
| 21 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 22 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 23 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 24 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 25 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 26 | Hang on for a second please . |
| 27 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 28 | ‘ We 're on for the night then ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 30 | ‘ When you were a gunner — as I was — you signed on as a merchant deckhand because if your ship put into neutral port and you went ashore as a gunner , you could be interned . |