Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 2 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 3 | Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel . |
| 4 | So if I 'm late for work one day , you 'll know why , I 've probably fallen down a hole somewhere . |
| 5 | In fact , one of the gardeners was dismissed only a fortnight ago because it was thought he was taking them . |
| 6 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 7 | ‘ Could n't I stay down a bit longer , please ? ’ |
| 8 | We may decide let's be passive and move to battle decide is actually an important issue and wan na be aggressive and they actually bring in a relationship so important . |
| 9 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 10 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 11 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 12 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm now going through what I experienced at Rosyth , except that Eastern Electricity had been privatised three years before I joined whereas the dockyard was contractorised only a month before . ’ |
| 14 | It still lingers on a bit though . |
| 15 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 16 | everywhere , things like that , so , well I 'll hang on a bit then |
| 17 | ‘ To have the pleasure of a lady 's company , ’ he nodded , giving the impression of a man glad to pass on a message correctly . |
| 18 | ‘ Dr Russell phoned down a minute ago , ’ the nurse said . |
| 19 | But I 've come down a bit now . |
| 20 | thank you it 's cooling down a bit now , it 's been a gorgeous day though , that sun |
| 21 | I gave in to that later on in the '80s , by trying to be more conventional and blending in a bit more , and actually I should n't have done that . ’ |
| 22 | I once found an injured one walking along a beach near where I live , and when I picked it up to see what was wrong , I underestimated the length of its beak . |
| 23 | ‘ A highlighter — two tones lighter than your normal foundation — can define cheekbones , make eyes look bigger and slim down a nose merely by being blended into these areas . |
| 24 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 25 | When she looked over the side in surprise , to her horror a huge orca surfaced just a metre away . |
| 26 | I think she 's getting carried away a bit there . |
| 27 | As Chitty J. lamented over a century ago : |
| 28 | The Zunfthaus zur Waag , where the linen craftsmen used to meet , survives from the early seventeenth century , and the Zunfthaus zur Meise , built approximately a century later , was the meeting place of the wine merchants . |
| 29 | ‘ They might fall over a cliff together , too . ’ |
| 30 | We interpret the moderate dispersion and dual polarity ( except for Tsm ) of palaeomagnetic data to indicate that cooling and remanence acquisition occurred over a period long enough to average palaeosecular variation . |