Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | but erm so had it been a Foxhalls , something about a minute no , he said only for about a mile , that was it . |
| 3 | I 've been inside for over a decade , the fact that I could be out soon cares me . |
| 4 | It 's only about like a pound |
| 5 | They both liked it , and began going out together for about a month until he left to do summer stock in Fishkill , NY , and she went to Philadelphia where she was chosen as a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet . |
| 6 | So as as a youth and a child she did n't take , |
| 7 | So after about a couple of bouts , I thought , alright , and it suddenly dawned on me I did n't know how to stop the tractor . |
| 8 | Now obviously in in a situation where a head gasket goes , there 's no problem on that because that 's straightforward . |
| 9 | They would be able to do so only from about a metre away , however , because even the muscles ' discharges are tiny . |
| 10 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 11 | They they just as as a storage space . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Finally in Between a balance is struck between the proliferation of metaphor on the one hand , and fixed semantic boundaries on the other , and it is in the more formally controlled context of this novel that discursive metaphor achieves the full realization of its potential as an agent of linguistic and conceptual refraction . |
| 15 | just to for a minute |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By 1874 , William Grist , the flock and shoddy magnate , was Using St Mary 's Mill , possibly for around a decade , but by 1890 , the mill again fell silent . |
| 18 | Fingers are being kept firmly crossed at British Coal HQ as it waits to see if faulty roof bolts led to the recent accident at the Stillingfleet colliery , part of the new Selby complex , when the collapse of a roof trapped five miners underground for over a day . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | he 's probably like like a whatsit or something . |
| 21 | On the other hand , small temples like the one at Gournia and those towns , like palaikastro , which apparently managed without temples , may have organized the agricultural production of their own estates near by on a scale that was commensurate with their size and rate of population growth . |
| 22 | Picasso too had stayed near by in a cluster of farmers ' cottages . |
| 23 | I stare dumbly from behind a glass |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This proceeded uneventfully for about a month with no obvious evidence of either haemolysis or regression of lymphadenopathy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 've had a job now for about a month . |
| 28 | Perhaps he 's watching me now from behind a tree … |
| 29 | Originally invented for high resolution engineering and plastic surgery , the scanner , which employs a low-energy helium-neon ( He-Ne ) laser , can measure an object three-dimensionally to within a millimetre of accuracy . |
| 30 | I am here for about a fortnight whilst you settle in . |