Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw myself as a write-off as far as boyfriends were concerned . |
| 2 | Today threatened to be a write-off as far as work was concerned , but perhaps she could recoup some of the lost time later on . |
| 3 | Putting a case more forcefully or asking for greater involvement from others is likely to get attention for your content rather than for your new style . |
| 4 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 5 | Alright , I 'll phone you a bit later on before I leave , okay . |
| 6 | Two things to do with you today mainly one is to whip through at least part of the isomers work and , I say part of it because you 'll be coming back to other parts of it a bit later on when you 've , for example , we 'll coming back to erm , isomers work . |
| 7 | Yes , I think that everybody recognizes that you should use the medicine that the doctor prescribes in the way he prescribes it and when you 've finished the treatment you should put it down the lavatory or get rid of it in some other safe way , but not keep it so that you can try it yourself again a bit later on and perhaps get confused and when you 've got boils on your neck take something which was meant for ingrowing toe nails or something like that . |
| 8 | a bit closer up but |
| 9 | A bit longer today cos of the fog . |
| 10 | I wished I 'd of stayed a bit longer now and had another look around |
| 11 | They rest on the ribcage of course and span out a bit lower down but they 're still very solid and they — " |
| 12 | Now you know , wi with lots of experts in this field and so we 're we only simply put that forward as a , a general suggestion whether it should be one-third from them and two- thirds from the pension funds , you know , I do n't think is a matter of great importance to us , but we do think that the should perhaps be a bit spread , spread a bit more widely than just into the pension funds . |
| 13 | He told Rufus to drive a bit more slowly and this time he spotted the six-foot-wide gap in the hedge with , on the right-hand side , almost hidden by cow parsley growing up and elderflowers hanging down , the wooden box on legs with its hinged lid into which Hilbert's-mail and newspapers and milk had been delivered . |
| 14 | ‘ What ought we to do ? ’ said Fenella , a bit more loudly than she had meant . |
| 15 | In think you can write about it a bit more meaningfully than that . ’ |
| 16 | Well you 'll have to put him down a bit more carefully than that . |
| 17 | ‘ I would suggest that you think a bit more carefully before you decide to commit yourself to another long-term relationship . ’ |
| 18 | Once she 's in a routine a bit more then but we are still trying to do as many |
| 19 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 20 | Always cut well on the waste side of your pencilled guidelines , you can always cut a bit more off if need be , but it is more problematic to have to try to glue bits back on if you have overcut . |
| 21 | That er that line I think went to just er a bit further up and erm er I say not an any matter of er another couple of hundred yards I think before there was only a single track . |
| 22 | All loose clothing such as overtrousers should be tucked into gaiters and you should learn to walk with your feet a bit further apart than normal . |
| 23 | I wish we 'd got a bit further really but it 's hard work . |
| 24 | It 's a bit late now and opportunities are very limited . |
| 25 | Lovely , thanks very much , and Amy 's just showed me our balance at the Bristol and West and it 's six thousand four hundred and forty one pounds sixty five pence , so we are a bit better off than I thought . |
| 26 | Martin Hines says he 's been a winner here twice and everyone will be looking to beat him . |
| 27 | Nominate a direction once more and move the Squig Hopper again in the same way . |
| 28 | But as Mrs Charley says : ‘ When you 've given up holidays and worked on a budget as tight as ours then you have to believe in miracles . ’ |
| 29 | Although few would accept a Trabant now even if you paid them , the spluttering papier-maché two-stroke still strikes an affectionate chord . |
| 30 | The idea of higher education as ‘ liberal ’ turns into a fiction so long as courses are determined solely by the introverted stance of the student 's core discipline . |