Example sentences of "[det] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 2 | I mention this merely in an effort to chase any preconceptions , which may have been created by the opening paragraphs , firmly away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Woodland has , therefore , been managed for a very long time and we shall examine this further in a moment . |
| 5 | The following account will suggest that many such pairs are etymological doublets , and we shall consider this further in an appendix to the chapter . |
| 6 | In his early days with Norwich he took ‘ stick ’ from fellow players and the opposition , but reflected on this favourably in a way which says much of himself and of other successful black sportsmen . |
| 7 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 8 | where did you see this then in a magazine or something ? |
| 9 | Fred Sedgwick , a teacher , captured this recently in an article describing a case conference he attended ( Guardian , 28 January 1989 ) . |
| 10 | It is helpful to keep these together in a folder on your file . |
| 11 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 12 | But what would happen to Twoflower , all alone in a city where even the cockroaches had an unerring instinct for gold ? |
| 13 | Then perhaps you 'll be happy — all alone in a kingdom of ice . ’ |
| 14 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 15 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 16 | How else should a person look , while , in the course of a single ceremony , he kisses everything goodbye — just blows it all away in a prodigal storm of confetti and rice ? |
| 17 | But the thing is we were all really I mean thing I 'd we 've all nearly in a state of undress anyway . |
| 18 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 19 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 20 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 21 | WHILE by no means a rare item , a 14-foot cabin cruiser , complete with 40hp engine is n't the sort of thing that turns up all that often in a Belfast auction room . |
| 22 | The effect of those figures on those notionally in a queue for real jobs has been well documented . |
| 23 | I promised myself I 'd never smoke again and I did n't often do that twice in a morning . |
| 24 | The resemblance is strengthened by the fact that the surface gravity turns out to be the same at all points on the event horizon , just as the temperature is the same everywhere in a body at thermal equilibrium . |
| 25 | I think we 're probably going to come back to that again in a minute . |
| 26 | ‘ You wo n't be walking on that again in a hurry . ’ |
| 27 | No , I have n't that information , tha that that detail was asked for , but I do know that er that certainly in a majority of cases because they are local erm the attendance from tenants was certainly substantial and I would of , but certainly far more than you would expected if the panel perhaps had been inside a . |