Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days ago , we saw the appalling spectacle on television of Vietnamese asylum seekers being dragged forcibly on to a plane to be sent back to Vietnam , a very poor country that has suffered economic embargos since 1976 , which have caused great poverty there . |
| 2 | Gertrude stopped working , and collapsed ponderously on to a seat . |
| 3 | Well , she went right down to a size ten when she lost all that weight before . |
| 4 | Bravura camerawork conspires with a scarce script and some edgy cutting to exploit every ounce of tension , right down to a killer ending . |
| 5 | And sat wearily down with a grunt and a frown |
| 6 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 7 | ‘ More wine ? ’ she asked , throwing her coat carelessly on to a sofa in the drawing-room . |
| 8 | Melissa put an arm round her and , at a sign from Madame Delon , led her into the salon , pushed her gently on to a couch and sat down beside her . |
| 9 | So he was only in for a couple of days then ? |
| 10 | From the steep sheep-bitten turf at the head of these cliffs the land slopes gently down towards a glen where the island 's only sizeable river runs seawards out of a loch cupped in a shallow basin among low hills . |
| 11 | The road drooped gently down to a ford . |
| 12 | An introduction to a DDL for each type of system is discussed below along with a description of the ways in which the data could be accessed and updated using the Data Manipulation Language ( DML ) . |
| 13 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 14 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 15 | Finding decent practice facilities was a constant headache , leading to some crazy situations ; in St Vincent , for example , Ken Barrington , the assistant manager , hunted all over for a place for Boycott to practise , and eventually found a piece of flat ground near the airport which had ducks waddling around and a donkey at long leg . |
| 16 | Place one cake on a serving plate , spike all over with a skewer and lace with half the kirsch . |
| 17 | Prick the base all over with a fork , line with foil and then add rice or baking beans . |
| 18 | Prick all over with a fork . |
| 19 | Scrub well , dry and prick the potatoes all over with a fork . |
| 20 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
| 21 | I talked it all over with a liaison sister before the operation . ’ |
| 22 | They created this distressed finish by marking and denting the guitar all over with a tool which gave the instrument a used/vintage appearance . |
| 23 | All Over in a Day |
| 24 | I want to kiss you like a butterfly on mescaline , all over in a flurry of delirium , I want to bite you to the bones , to be so close to you there materialises a planet called us . |
| 25 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ One kept shouting to the other to get the money , but it was all over in a flash . |
| 27 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 28 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 29 | If defectors stayed at home the intelligence world would be much better off as a result . |
| 30 | First it is a game which creates wealth through the process of production exchange and all players in the game ( i.e. those supplying labour services , property and capital ) are better off as a result of it . |