Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Mick Ronson , Woody Woodmansey and myself would be making backing tracks , having got the brief from David — it was E chord for 16 bars then an A chord for 4 bars and a B chord for 2 bars — and we were just banging out these backing tracks , and David would come into the studio , if we could tear him away from Angela for long enough and say whether he liked it or not .
2 Fourth cousins by marriage , the girls had been aware of each other for much longer and had a number of friends in common .
3 For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools .
4 This itself may lead to fewer people being employed , unless the programme can be accompanied by industries gaining an increased market share of both home and export markets .
5 If the master panics , the materials dash about more frenziedly and wrap the lead round themselves , tightly encircling their master too .
6 Just collecting from somewhere else and bringing it back to themselves .
7 The idea being that if you wanted to move the cloth which we will be doing for the banquet , you just lift it straight off there , hammer some more tenterhooks in somewhere else and put it on there as well .
8 Thanks were expressed to all members of committee for their help and support during the year with special thanks to the new members who had fitted in so well and had been willing to get involved in all the work of the committee … to the ex-officio members of the committee Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton , Councillor H.D.G. Fraser and G. Lightheart the community education officer .
9 Thanks were expressed to all members of committee for their help and support during the year with special thanks to the new members who had fitted in so well and had been willing to get involved in all the work of the committee … to the ex-officio members of the committee Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton , Councillor H.D.G. Fraser and G. Lightheart the community education officer .
10 Luch gathered her bundle in more carefully and nodded again .
11 Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted .
12 I recognized Billy Tuckett from way back and thought I 'd save you guys some time by giving you his name .
13 will be produced in both still and sparkling excuse me as per bottle .
14 Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood .
15 That old plastic bird appeared on all my ships from then on and became a kind of ship 's mascot , travelling all over the UK with us .
16 There 's a reception area where they can sit and talk and the girls sit in there too and help the conversation along . ’
17 " Why do n't you put your clothes on right now and get down to Seventh Avenue or Forty-Second Street .
18 After about thirty seconds , I told her that she could switch the light on once more and make her way out of the cupboard and back to the hall .
19 So I 'll walk over here tomorrow and telephone him , if I may .
20 They 'd been to the hospital , and they 'd been over the flat so I said to them well pop the blankets on and come over here then and have your supper and go back .
21 I never got on very well and ended up getting thrown out of my classes .
22 It was a problem which the team manager , Mike Turner , should have faced up to very quickly and brought to a conclusion one way or the other .
23 Rest of the cast fought him off but the tenor got cut about quite badly and had to go to hospital .
24 Some speakers , like Heseltine , come across more powerfully and capture the imagination of people a little better … ’
25 Dennis Tighe , prosecuting said police spotted Millman driving a BMW at about 11.30pm and tried to stop him .
26 No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range .
27 We arrived at about 4.30pm and made camp at a very good site .
28 That way we can put the donkey in a field at about 11am and leave him for about six hours while people have other entertainment . ’
29 Transmission dates : 6 December — a 30-minute programme looking at five years of the series ; 7–11 and 14–18 December — a series of five-minute programmes at about 8pm and repeated at 11.20pm each night on BBC2 .
30 ‘ The doctor then contacted Conservative Central Office at about 6.15pm and explained his anger at the broadcast .
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