Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'll be all right in a minute ’ , and then she goes , ‘ I 'll let you off this time ’ , and then I did it again — a really loud one , and she goes , ‘ Fay , you 're going to have to go to the Headmistress ’ , she goes … |
| 32 | He 'll be all right in a minute . " |
| 33 | You 'll be all right in a couple of days , they said , and in her disorientation Chesarynth thought , Days are geography not time . |
| 34 | I shall be all right in a moment . ’ |
| 35 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |
| 36 | Then we were running gently downhill beside a burn , towards the distant gleam of the sea . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | A FORMER marine masqueraded so successfully as a policeman that he led a team of real officers on a job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 39 | ( b ) It used to be thought that sterilisation ( perhaps only of a man ) without just cause was unlawful as being contrary to the public interest . |
| 40 | A quick , sharp beverage that hits you in the throat and then in the guts ; that changes , perhaps only for a time , your way of seeing the world ? |
| 41 | The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists . |
| 42 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 43 | Well , perhaps only after a pint or 2 of the extra strong Kingsdown . |
| 44 | ‘ I take the view that it is wise for ministers to have sufficiently long in a job to get thoroughly on top of it . ’ |
| 45 | The Cam always looks so peaceful , especially so on a winter 's day with no punts or rowing boats in sight . |
| 46 | Erm so perhaps with a degree it would only take maybe three years |
| 47 | So he was only in for a couple of days then ? |
| 48 | They played together co-operatively with a set of cars but once Tom decided that one of the cars was his favourite Sue quietly took it when he was n't looking . |
| 49 | Nearly long enough for a dress in n it ? |
| 50 | And now he was insinuating that she would be extending her stay long enough for a tour of the whole country ! |
| 51 | We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes . |
| 52 | Fortunately , they decided they could bear each other 's company long enough for a farewell tour , starting next month , and also a valedictory album . |
| 53 | Entering the third year of the Intifada , it is more than ever clear that time is of the essence : how to keep it going long enough at a level which does not yield to the temptations of ruinous , reciprocal escalation , but still disturbs the outside world enough to get them to bring the Israeli extremists to heel . |
| 54 | If you waited long enough after a game at Oakwell , you could travel home on the same bus as your hero . |
| 55 | As she got to her feet he looked underneath her , remembering the equipment cows had , and saw that she had a semblance of the same thing , although nothing like so dangly as a cow 's , but quite satisfactorily dripping at that moment with what he supposed was milk . |
| 56 | This alternative view , a member of a small family of related although differing views , follows on naturally enough from a consideration of Hume 's . |
| 57 | Naturally enough in a recession , insolvency and corporate recovery have boomed , though even that is slowing down now . |
| 58 | ‘ Angel , do n't worry so much about a country girl , ’ said his mother , anxious about her son 's state of mind . |
| 59 | So much for a tradition whose origins may be traced back to early classical times ! |
| 60 | So much for a weekend break on Alpha Centauri ! |