Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may also trade commercially for a period not exceeding 13 weeks , during the course of their ACE employment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It should be small enough to be an effective policy , or decision-making group , but large enough to function effectively as a forum where the views and objectives of significant participants can be acknowledged . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Put that heater on then would you that one on for a while just before they come . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 13 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 14 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 15 | Hang on for a second please . |
| 16 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 17 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | And manager Joe Kinnear last night reported that John Fashanu was in agony after pulling his hamstring again after coming on as a substitute even though he was ‘ only about 10 per cent fit . ’ |
| 20 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 21 | Quite enough for a man only five feet , five and a half inches tall . |
| 22 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 23 | Only for a bloke actually it 's pretty easy , but for some of the girls I mean they sometimes has to false herself . |
| 24 | Notice that the pyramid shape is typical only during a period when medical care is deficient ; birth and death rates are then high with probability of death being relatively constant at all ages . |
| 25 | He holds pubs in thrall to his Welsh past — the stories which would be told afresh for a lifetime now emerge in their first edition — and his childhood , far from seeming a ball and chain in this airy court of privilege , glowed into a magic kingdom to match any of them . |
| 26 | Saturday might begin by dividing the participants into small groups of three or four , each composed of people from different communities so that everybody will be encouraged to work together as a team rather than rely on ‘ traditional ’ dominant group-leaders . |
| 27 | It is imperative that the present divisive situation is resolved as speedily as possible , to allow everyone involved with the school to start working together as a team once more . |
| 28 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |
| 29 | What must it be like to have a substantial body of work behind you and yet have the creeping sense that you are being remembered only as a bore in Under the Volcano , as the inventor of a word about Greene , and as the friend of Lowry , of Orwell , of Patrick Hamilton ( himself , something of a forgotten figure ) ? |
| 30 | about , no , no it 's only about a fortnight ago , I was on site doing a job and I come out and as far as you know what you call courtesy dial in a card , so that you do n't cut anybody off , you can dial it and everybody says oh what 's going off , you know , you can courtesy dial it , when we 've finished it shuts that channel down |