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
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