Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here on this east side are the exaggerated sweeping gables , the cottagey front door with its hinges forged with heart-shaped ends ( a trade mark of Mr Voysey ) , the elaborate gutters , the pebble-dash over the two-feet-thick stone walls , and the cosy , comforting scale of the whole , so nice to come home to on a wet and windy evening . |
| 2 | What may have been looked forward to as a release may instead be an unexpected let-down , with retirement from work adding to the feeling of helplessness and lack of purpose . |
| 3 | But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The road , now heading east once more , climbs onward to within a short walk 's distance from that same awesome Rhone glacier before tackling the highest pass of the trip , the Furka ( 2,431m , 7,974ft ) , which forms the boundary between cantons Valais and Uri . |
| 6 | Because it , cos people were you know erm as is often said generally of of a of a general staffs of armies . |
| 7 | Altogether 33 countries approved a draft treaty , drawn up at Basel last March , which called for the toxic waste trade to be regulated instead of for a total ban . |
| 8 | Many plotters come complete with software that allows them to be used directly from within a program , rather like a paper copy of the screen . |
| 9 | He spins back to his family , snatching the napkin from his collar , his chin jutting righteously from beneath a press-lipped mouth . |
| 10 | Working-class community life is as strongly established in Glasgow as anywhere , and football violence has occurred there for over a century . |
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| 12 | When she arrives home in the evening , she knows she will have no stimulating exchange of news to look forward to with a husband and family . |
| 13 | I stare dumbly from behind a glass |
| 14 | Picasso too had stayed near by in a cluster of farmers ' cottages . |
| 15 | At the first bump the strap sprang off and the bike fell onto the road , but as the front wheel was still tied on , the bike was dragged behind for over a mile , until vehicles hooting from behind warned me something was amiss . |
| 16 | She was heading for the supermercado when a flaxen-haired man with a teak-dark tan waved vigorously from beyond a group of onlookers on the opposite side of the square . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | From the eyelid down , one cheek was a mask of blood ; the eye stared opaquely from under a half-closed lid . |
| 19 | This proceeded uneventfully for about a month with no obvious evidence of either haemolysis or regression of lymphadenopathy . |
| 20 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A long French liner slipped majestically by with a mixture of European and Asian faces staring curiously from its rails , then the Arid was pushing its way through a swarm of sampans moving downriver on local errands , most of them rowed , to Joseph 's surprise , by women . |
| 23 | but erm so had it been a Foxhalls , something about a minute no , he said only for about a mile , that was it . |
| 24 | The director retired soon after with a tax-free cash lump sum a lot smaller than it need have been , because all the calculations were based on an artificially small definition of final pensionable salary . |