Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war went on for over a thousand years . |
| 2 | I think I need to put the immersion on for just a little while . |
| 3 | That went on for quite a long time |
| 4 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 5 | Erm a a you 're in for quite a good day . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's turned quite cold and I think we 're in for quite a wet spell . |
| 7 | That puts still more of a premium on shrewdly imaginative lineout tactics , married to throwing in of just the right pace and parabola . |
| 8 | If one of the other mainline batsmen had chipped in with even a 50 or 60 , England would probably have saved the match . |
| 9 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 10 | After all , I , along with almost every other British journalist in Mexico , had confidently predicted that England would reach the World Cup final for the second consecutive time and stubbornly resist Brazil 's attempt to take the trophy from them . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , expectations are rising that Sun will soon announce its awaited 45MHz Model 52 and 54 , which are to be dual and quad processor machines , along with perhaps an unanticipated 45MHz uniprocessor ( the Model 51 ? ) and a 50MHz single , dual or quad configuration ( the Model 61 ? ) . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , expectations are rising that Sun will soon announce its anticipated 45MHz Model 52 and 54 , set to be dual and quad machines , along with perhaps an unanticipated 45MHz uniprocessor ( the Model 51 ? ) and a 50MHz single , dual or quad configuration ( the Model 61 ? ) . |
| 13 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 14 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 15 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 16 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 17 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 18 | put it down to just a useful . |
| 19 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 20 | " Some people are best left alone , " said Gabriel , and he looked down to where the eldest and the middle brother were lying peacefully under their beautiful tree , with its green leaves , and its glossy fruit , and the white blossom falling like snow . |
| 21 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 22 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 23 | And he actually took her arm , quite simply and confidently , and rushed her on the wings of his enthusiasm down through the green complexities of the bowl , between the crisp , serrated walls , across the fragments of tiled pavement , past the forum pillars , down to where the emerald turf sloped off under a token wire barrier to the riverside path and the waters of the Comer . |
| 24 | He was clean-shaven , although a faint darkness marked his jaw at this hour ; inevitable with his colouring , she knew , her eyes moving upwards to his jet-black hair and then — a betrayal of herself — down to where the open neck of his shirt provided tantalising glimpses of subtly gleaming flesh shadowed by softly curling dark hair , all so emphatically masculine . |
| 25 | Rose looked helplessly down to where the old lady still flailed against her pillows , catching her breath on each series of cackles as they left her throat . |
| 26 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 27 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 28 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 29 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 30 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |