Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I am sorry madam ’ he called out , over my shoulder , ‘ We are right out of cracked eggs today . ’ |
2 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
3 | Most of the fen drains for most of the time are somewhere in between these two extremes making the whole business a little undecided . |
4 | With the Tories elected for a fourth successive term , the politics of the opposition are obviously up for radical examination . |
5 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
6 | I 've , I 've I 've often thought I would never vote Tory but , I mean , I 've been better off in some ways in that I was able to buy my council house . |
7 | If Tim Sherwood 's long range blast in the 73rd minute had gone in instead of smacking against the bar , it would have been all up for United . |
8 | This is Mike Jardine , one of Scotland 's leading extreme skiers , proving that naked apes are better off with one-piece skisuits . |
9 | If you really want to make light of powder you are better off with specialised hardware . |
10 | however , however , however you judge these things are entirely up to those who are right and those who are receiving them , but I thought she was very good , she wrote some poems about us really |
11 | Though generally they are only out by one grade , that can be make or break for some . |
12 | 4 months after the first tenants moved in , the builders are already back in this council house on the infamous Innsworth Grove estate . |
13 | The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards . |
14 | ‘ Many zoos , particularly in the southern member-states , are not up to adequate standards , ’ she said . |
15 | I will count to three , ’ the corner continued as if enjoying himself , ‘ and then , if you are not out of this alleyway and back whence you came , you will answer to me ! |
16 | IF YOU 'RE A BRIGHTON , BLACKPOOL OR BOGNOR BABY , YOU 'RE BETTER OFF WITH BRITISH GAS WATER HEATING . |
17 | I think we 're better off with orange squash , just |
18 | ‘ We 're not back on that track again , are we ? |
19 | We are planning to have some very big activities around that date , if indeed we 're not back by that time . |
20 | ‘ If you 're not in by half past seven on a Sunday night you 've no chance of getting a seat , ’ a regular member told me . |
21 | We 're still on with six . |
22 | oh yeah , ow , na , na , na , na , we 're still out of grey ones , could n't use them though can we ? |
23 | You 're always on about that ! |
24 | ‘ You 're always on about happy and enjoy . |
25 | They 've plenty to spare , and they 're always in among other folk 's corn . |
26 | Remember the last thing you did was add it on , so if we say it 's two pounds , we 're back down to forty pounds that he 's got to buy units . |
27 | I know you 're now up for another anchor job . |
28 | We 're actually going a bit over thir we were going forty five , we 're now back to forty now . |
29 | The Microprocessor Report says we 're now down to six serious chips contending for the desktop : Intel Corp iAPX-86 , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , Mips Technologies Inc R series , Hewlett-Packard Co PA-RISC , IBM Corp PowerPC and Digital Equipment Corp Alpha , having discarded the Intel 860 , Motorola Inc 88000 and Intergraph Corp Clipper as unreal . |
30 | Finances , I think they 're well up on that sort of thing |