Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Have you lived in this area long ? ’ she decided was a safe enough question after a lull when another beer was brought to him . |
| 32 | The beautiful blooms only last for a day or two , but there 's a continuous succession from spring to autumn . |
| 33 | In 1986–7 , an NCT survey found 70 active milk banks ; now they only know of a handful . |
| 34 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 35 | In such societies , those males who are initiated together — between the ages of , say , 13–18 — constitute an age-set and the members of each set together pass through a series of age-grades . |
| 36 | ‘ Enough exercise for a month . |
| 37 | In so tar as a class dominates social relations it dominates the production of ideology . |
| 38 | Is there really much harm in a father or stepfather fondling a girl ? |
| 39 | ‘ Things went through smoothly , ’ he says , ‘ But now the terms have changed and payments only continue for a year . ’ |
| 40 | The trees suddenly storm to a stop , in a hush |
| 41 | Oh , yes , they they obviously go through a stage of trying to make sure that erm , theoretically it is correct , |
| 42 | In the same field lies 1 Geminorum , not much use as a comparison for Eta because it is too faint ( 4.1 ) . |
| 43 | I would n't be much use at a party . ’ |
| 44 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 45 | Old people are n't much use in a war . |
| 46 | Much heralded , the comics renaissance of the last five years has worn its For Mature Readers Only label like a badge of honour and serious intent . |
| 47 | ‘ These people deliberately target places where people only go for a bit of entertainment . |
| 48 | ‘ You know perfectly well , Marler , that these days I only go after a story I think is really worthwhile . |
| 49 | C so go for a C first unless you 're sure |
| 50 | Organic meat needs experienced butchery and not a quick swipe with the band saw before being instantly packaged — so go to a butcher who buys his meat on the hoof from a farmer who is n't into organics just for the sake of profit . |
| 51 | So Dave said well let's , you know , you sit and eat , and eat , he said let's get up Christmas present , have a couple of Christmas presents , going swimming ten till twelve , perhaps go for a walk over the common or something , |
| 52 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 53 | The Marind of New Guinea believe that fire has its origins in sex , and so indulge in a rite whereby a girl has to be raped in order to keep that fire alight . |
| 54 | You know how it is , you 're in the middle of nowhere when you suddenly think of a drum pattern and bass line for your latest track . |
| 55 | You know how it is , you 're in the middle of nowhere when you suddenly think of a drum pattern and bass line for your latest track . |
| 56 | So think of a question for each of them then and write then down what you might ask them . |
| 57 | So think of a function , keep it nice and simple , cos you 're gon na have to work it out . |
| 58 | This is what I meant earlier : perhaps love for a writer is the purest , the steadiest form of love . |
| 59 | To me it seems that beauty , and indeed the qualities and forms which give rise to beauty , only exist for a consciousness . |
| 60 | And as they only exist , these many worlds , in dreams , so they only exist in a work of art . |