Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
| 2 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 3 | I would have been killing myself laughing if the team were n't battling away so furiously for a winner and the whole place going mad . |
| 4 | " Hmm , well , " Slater said , bobbing his head in an arc — a gesture somewhere between a nod and a shake — " thick set , certainly , and not ally bright , but God those shoulders . |
| 5 | A huge cheer — somewhere between a wolf-whistle and a blown kiss — went up from the Tory backbenches . |
| 6 | Benedict uttered , somewhere between a scold and a caress . |
| 7 | The sentence was somewhere between a question and a statement . |
| 8 | The taste is somewhere between a guava and a grape . |
| 9 | Now it has not always been easy to warm to England 's rugby followers , whose customary note is somewhere between a bray and a bellow . |
| 10 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 11 | Whereupon the traveller in jelly uttered a sound somewhere between a groan and a hiccup , and studied the design on his tie . |
| 12 | But when he argued over the great issues of human belief , he still did so in the tone which he reserved for the politics of the pavement and the public baths , the voice pitched somewhere between a sneer and a snarl . |
| 13 | There is an alternative , more optimistic view that some people in education are expressing , which sees the current changes as somewhere between an irrelevance and a minor irritation in terms of their own aims and practices . |
| 14 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 15 | It extended a few of its probes , which swung around slowly for a while and then pointed towards the going-up jet . |
| 16 | From the very first , he painted professionally for a living and achieved fame primarily for his paintings of Nelsonian and Roman events . |
| 17 | As they became confident , she moved them into faster and more daring exhibitions , inciting them to dive skilfully for a titbit or a ‘ lure ’ . |
| 18 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 19 | My youngest daughter , Fleur , perhaps as a defence and because being the youngest she could n't conceive of a world without her father — I hope I 'm not kidding myself here — gave the impression that all was well . |
| 20 | Or maybe you have a desire to ‘ expose ’ yourself in some way — perhaps as an artist or politician — but are blocking yourself through fear of humiliation or rejection ? |
| 21 | The kitchen door stood open revealing a strip of bumpy grass and yellow sandy gravel wide enough for a coach and four to turn in between the House and the stable block . |
| 22 | The restaurant was little more than an intelligently decorated semi-basement with space enough for a bar and a half dozen tables . |
| 23 | Dairy cattle … eh , Beh , milk is not food enough for a man and besides I have my fields to plough . ’ |
| 24 | He confirmed that the lump on my thigh was indeed big enough for a biopsy and that Dr Slachman would be performing the small operation ( thank God it 's not Bloodnott ) . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's sly enough for a Quaker or that newfangled Methody . |
| 26 | The greatest pity was that the top was clear enough for a view and as we were perched at the broad gable end of the mountain we could see some fabulous sights . |
| 27 | In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her . |
| 28 | We got a house with three bedrooms , a bathroom , a separate sitting room and dining room , a kitchen big enough for a table and chairs ( saving mothers from solitary domestic confinement ) , front and back garden , a coal house , inside lavatory and outside lavatory and wash house where people stored dolly tubs and mangles , bikes and prams . |
| 29 | The only other low-cost option is to take a colour photograph of the screen and whilst this might suffice for business charts it certainly wo n't be accurate enough for a designer or architect . |
| 30 | There will be an hour 's break during which organisers hope the weather will be fine enough for a picnic and the performance begins at 7.30 p.m . |