Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic .
2 I shall be available after half past five till about six o'clock if you wan na just I 'll be in tomorrow morning at quarter past eight .
3 Although in the first war years the Party substantially cut down the number of meetings devoted to ‘ training ’ in ideological matters — which had never enjoyed much popularity — and concentrated in its regular work in the localities on trying to fulfil ‘ the popular demand for a more lively participation in the events of the day ’ , as one report put it , it was unable to build up much interest in Party work or to enhance the popularity of the local Party organizations .
4 Well , you know , Donald came up here year after year and took a real tongue lashing and you did n't really put anything down there that could be criticized this year but you said we 're gon na fight .
5 Manuela , or Manola as most of her friends know her , was forced to give up here job at Cholsey 's Fairmile Hospital after twenty two years there because of a painful lung disease .
6 I lie up there night after night ’ — she felt rather than saw the motion of his head back towards his home-'but I 'm with you over here .
7 Well , my , my memory right , you go down into , into like a , the ground floor and the top of the , like the bottom of the next floor is about that sort of height , but there is a wall up there sort of thing , which erm , I , I must , which you could probably get on .
8 Increased reliance on Moscow may now hold out much prospect of improvement in growth , productivity or living standards , but intra-bloc trade at least offers assured markets , predictable performance benchmarks , and the kind of long-term trading agreements which are the staple of central planning and of central planners .
9 Centre devised Programme Regulations should set out clearly policy on reassessment of students who fail or fail to complete assignments .
10 It was dark as they sailed back up river to Lees ' wharf .
11 All of which is good news for those who travel back here year after year , but disappointing for those who find out about Bellagio too late and ca n't book it for love nor money …
12 However , when scientists first tried to work out how life on Earth got started , they had to perfect their understanding of the original primeval gases , and whether and how such gases changed their nature .
13 Semantic categories are not listed separately , since , as suggested in 2.9 , it is easier to arrive at these through other categories ; we shall , for example , use our lexical categories to find out how choice of words involves various types of meaning .
14 Everybody will have a different list , but you can use your observations to begin to work out how delivery of care works in your area of work .
15 Now another internal inquiry has had to be launched , this time to find out how news of BA 's rights issue was leaked .
16 I nearly went insane ; I wanted to come screaming round here night after night , hammer on your door and tell you to stop seeing her … ’
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