Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 2 | Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water . |
| 3 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 4 | your that we 've put that in as a recommendation . |
| 5 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 6 | Well on theirs I 'm allowed to give you a discount , I bring that down to a B. The higher up you 're going . |
| 7 | Well I 'll drop that down to a C , that 'd be a hundred and fourteen . |
| 8 | So put that down for a second will we ? |
| 9 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 10 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 11 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |
| 12 | Day 8 Received an order for 20 hang gliders at £400 each together with a cheque for £8,000 . |
| 13 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 14 | There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams . |
| 15 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 16 | I put this down as a reason for brother Carl 's behaviour and shortcomings ; his tantrums , his many displays of neurosis , his lack of tolerance with others , and his need for understanding — which we , his brothers and sisters , failed to give . |
| 17 | McLeish told Francesca to hang on while he got this down as a note , and stared at the result . |
| 18 | She found nothing , although she did n't know whether to put this down to a lack of success on the part of the police or the massive coverage afforded to the hijacking of a wide-bodied jet over Italy . |
| 19 | One dentist I know , is so used to dealing with hypersensitive children that he says — and I mean to me — ‘ Now , pop this in like a lollipop ’ , but I do n't mind that either because , about twenty years after everyone else , I 've discovered the benefits of meditation . |
| 20 | Newman 's trained reporter 's eye took all this in in a glance . |
| 21 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 22 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 23 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 24 | Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively . |
| 25 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 26 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 27 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 28 | We ask this not as a government minister might , faced with the seemingly interminable demands of research scientists for more and more funds , but to try to see what relationship research bears to knowledge . |
| 29 | I 'll just tell you about this Can I just tell you about this just for a minute ? |
| 30 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |