Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might There are certain new settlement proposals that have been put forward in other parts of the country which has been basically a bolt on to er an existing group of |
| 2 | It 's thirteen fifty a ticket , it 's erm , I do n't think you can moan at a night out for that , especially a night out like that |
| 3 | Edwards and Rackages base their approach on the highly questionable premise that spectator violence is merely a playing out of tensions external to sport itself . |
| 4 | The action took her by surprise , and at first she told herself to remain calm and to take the kiss in the spirit it was being given , which was merely a making up between friends after cross words . |
| 5 | perhaps a cow about to shit |
| 6 | A massive step forward from Descartes then , but also perhaps a step back to Augustine . |
| 7 | There is obviously a trade off to be obtained by varying the number of words that are stored in the lexicon . |
| 8 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 9 | Both can be seen as genuine attempts at making something out of nothing , attempts at getting something even if it 's only a laugh out of a life which , in many cases , by 16 has already run into a collection of brick walls labelled ‘ unemployment ’ , ‘ shit jobs ’ and ‘ routine brushes with the Law ’ . |
| 10 | It 's only a choice out of one , two or three Shell |
| 11 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 12 | She thought she 'd found the perfect place to live , yet already it was slipping away and this cosy compartment was only a stage on to something else . |
| 13 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 14 | Only a bolt out of the blue could stop him now . |
| 15 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 16 | Alan Clayson 's attempt to paint a clearer picture is severely hampered by Harrison 's refusal to co-operate , thus leaving Clayson to read every press clipping , interview anyone who ever knew him , and cobble together a book out of it . |
| 17 | Had he imagined it , or had Chung Hu-yan come to him only an hour back with news of another attack ? |
| 18 | He can fine a player up to 75 per cent of his match fee or suspend him for up to three Test matches . |
| 19 | It just appears to be just a fraction out of focus maybe , I do n't know . |
| 20 | Nirvana are just a rip off of them really . |
| 21 | As was noted at a recent conference ‘ Cooperatives are real work … not just a day out at a course ! ’ . |
| 22 | If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address . |
| 23 | Boredom is often used as an excuse but according to sex specialist Dr Otto Kernberg it 's just a cover up for more complex reasons . |
| 24 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 25 | Oh , you can buy a cheap ones with a just a tape on without the |
| 26 | In Enzo 's mind , there is no one else at his level , so that any such pretensions are just lèse majest é'; , and lèse majest é'; , we know , is just a step up from insolence , and who does this little Austrian think he is ? |
| 27 | But first of all he served his time in the smithy at and he met his wife , my grandmother in which was quite , you can quite imagine , it was just a walk up over the hills and er he met her in and er they were married . |
| 28 | No just a woman on with a white hat . |
| 29 | Just a woman on with a white hat . |
| 30 | If you have ever actually looked at this document that they have produced for today 's meeting , it is not a strategy , it 's not a statement , it 's just a trotting out of the old stories that have been knocked back time and time again , but if they 're gon na bring it out , let's knock it back again . |