Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Footballers are seen simultaneously as representatives of a club and its traditions , of a community and its collective sensibility and most importantly of a sport beloved by young and impressionable people .
2 The buildings were transformed rather successfully into a gallery for Bohemian art by František Cubr and Josef Pilar , in the 1960s .
3 He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim .
4 In the southernmost bay we engaged most valiantly with a band of savage islanders who scaled the walls of the sloop Rebecca and torched her timbers , but we consigned the greater part of them to the sea for pasture for the fishes that teem therein .
5 In terms of the use of multimedia generally , the visual impact of HDTV may heighten interest in using multimedia across a broad range of applications , most obviously as a component of HDTV-based POS and POI terminals .
6 The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade .
7 THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate .
8 Athenagoras , the Syracusan demagogue , is made by Thucydides ( vi.38 ) to say that Syracuse ‘ is only rarely in a state of internal peace ’ .
9 forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ?
10 ‘ You can do that all right with a stew , ’ said Penelope .
11 Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ .
12 ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years .
13 You 're you 're all right for a hair brush then are you ?
14 It 's all right for a man ; men are used to smutty books and vulgar jokes — women do n't go for things like that . ’
15 I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit .
16 ‘ I 'm all right for a couple of minutes . ’
17 The wheels would be all right for a couple of days ; then they 'd become ten times worse and they 'd have to come to the smithy .
18 The Stage Manager would give him the line , he 'd be all right for a couple more sentences , then , ‘ Sorry , it 's gone again . ’
19 ‘ I thought he was all right for a millionaire .
20 That would not be all right for a priest .
21 All right for a start .
22 ‘ She was all right until a minute ago , ’ he protested .
23 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 …
24 He 'll be all right in a minute . "
25 You 'll be all right in a couple of days , they said , and in her disorientation Chesarynth thought , Days are geography not time .
26 I shall be all right in a moment . ’
27 It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden .
28 Then we were running gently downhill beside a burn , towards the distant gleam of the sea .
29 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 .
30 A FORMER marine masqueraded so successfully as a policeman that he led a team of real officers on a job , a court heard yesterday .
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