Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 2 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 3 | Its fabrication skills will be called on for later iterations of the chip , the 0.5-micron 603 , the 604 and the 300 Specmark-to-500 Specmark 620 , all due to arrive next year . |
| 4 | Its fabrication skills will be called on for later iterations of the chip , the 0.5 micron 603 , the 604 and the 300 Specmark-to-500 Specmark 620 , all of which are due to arrive next year . |
| 5 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 6 | ‘ We were woken at 10.30pm and told to put our kit on for three hours of night-time navigation exercises , ’ says Peter . |
| 7 | But the Queen will see just about every past and present RAF aircraft a flypast which will go on for three quarters of an hour . |
| 8 | Walsh did not appear , but Cooper and Pilger went in as non-executive members of the Board . |
| 9 | Sitting down between two piles of books Endill began to read Useful Tips on Flying , but it was more about what to do when you had a plane rather than how to make one . |
| 10 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 11 | Corinthian Geometric goes in for small vessels of very high technical quality , simply and elegantly decorated . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 13 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 14 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection , ’ he murmured , ‘ but you 're irresistible . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't normally go in for public displays of affection either , ’ she murmured impulsively , forgetting her uneasiness , ‘ but even with sand on your face you 're … ’ |
| 17 | It did n't take long for him to bounce back , however , and during the latter part of the 1970s and early 1980s he and Trevino put themselves in for further chances of Open glory . |
| 18 | However , despite holding on to the Senate for a total of six years and securing further landslides in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections , the Republicans have not been able to bring about a real realignment — a fundamental reordering of political loyalties extending down through all levels of the political system . |
| 19 | The story of the blacksmith 's involvement in the Battle of Drumclog can not be substantiated by any written record of the battle but it has been handed down through many generations of people in the Irvine Valley and spoken of with pride . |
| 20 | And we had to go down through fourteen feet of solid rock . |
| 21 | The river has cut down through 6,000 feet of the Colorado Plateau , exposing a quarter of the earth 's geological history . |
| 22 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 23 | Well I 'd better , 'cos today — ’ in between massive mouthfuls of toast — ‘ I 've got to make up my tiny mind what I 'm going to do . |
| 24 | Shelley did n't touch the wine , but stuck to the iced water , in between delicious mouthfuls of the fish , which she had to admit was absolute perfection , the best she had ever tasted . |
| 25 | Rovers chief executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ We are absolutely delighted to have made it in after six years of trying . |
| 26 | The 320SLi 's power-management features include the ability to configure the BIOS to automatically shut parts of the machine down after specified internals of inactivity . |
| 27 | The author is a past mistress of gushing praise to lull the reader into tabloid deification , then the quiet slipping in of neat doses of vitriol to tarnish her subject and titillate us . |
| 28 | ‘ The powers conferred by section 268 are powers directed to enabling the court to help a liquidator to discover the truth of the circumstances in connection with the affairs of the company , information of trading , dealings , and so forth , in order that the liquidator may be able , as effectively as possible , and , I think , with as little expense as possible … to complete his function as liquidator , to put the affairs of the company in order and to carry out the liquidation in all its various aspects , including , of course , the getting in of any assets of the company available in the liquidation . |
| 29 | Only occasional flakes came haphazardly down like white sifts of charred paper when a chimney is on fire . |
| 30 | She was wearing a green school coat that was too big for her , so that her little pink hands stuck out all chubby from the sleeves , and she was weighed down with all sorts of rubbish — a shiny brown leather satchel , and a shoe-bag with a bunch of roses embroidered on it , and a hockey-stick . |