Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 2 | Another woman corrected him , saying she heard the coat was found a bit farther down the freight train track . |
| 3 | I 'll ask Michael Colgan now to take us a bit further down a look at the costs . |
| 4 | I felt I deserved a break halfway up the M1 after negotiating the usual flurry of roadworks and contraflow systems and dodging the playful lane changes of juggernauts whose sole aim seems to be to persuade drivers of cars , and especially drivers of Porsches , that motorways are too dangerous for anything but lorries . |
| 5 | ‘ There may be a wind further down the valley , ’ said Betty . |
| 6 | A bald man in a tuxedo was standing in a doorway half-way down the alley . |
| 7 | When they had collected the papers from a shop on the wharf Tony took him to The Brigantine , a pub halfway up a steep , cobbled street . |
| 8 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 9 | He indicated a window farther down the line . |
| 10 | and feathering of forehead descending to a point well down the upper mandible . |
| 11 | They drove to a point higher up the mountains where the snow was already thick , and Katherine had her first skiing lessons . |
| 12 | Riven took a place halfway down the hall from the high seats where the lords clustered and the Lady Jinneth adorned her husband 's elbow . |
| 13 | The meeting should be at a place far down the beach . |
| 14 | If they systematically increase in value , a transformation lower down the ladder should be tried . |
| 15 | Baldwin 's speech to the House came a week later on a Friday morning . |
| 16 | He moved closer , and Fran shuddered as he ran a finger softly down the straight little bridge of her nose . |
| 17 | She stared back at him , refusing to give an inch , then jumped when he leant forward to run a finger softly down the smooth curve of her cheek . |
| 18 | The Captain ran a finger lightly down a black silk sleeve . |
| 19 | Smiling , he ran a finger quickly down the curve of Caroline 's hip , then danced it around until it rested lightly against her thigh , just at the start of the slit that ran the length of the gown . |
| 20 | A month later on the twenty fourth of May nineteen eighty eight , there was the first of a series of operations to correct deformities of both feet and the left wrist . |
| 21 | A month later on the twenty second of June nineteen eighty eight another operation lengthened the left achilles tendon . |
| 22 | The train stopped , doors slammed , a man further up the line lifted out two suitcases and placed them on the ground . |
| 23 | A year later they graft on a bud higher up the stem of a cider fruit variety . |
| 24 | We 'll go out for a drive probably out an hour , whereas years ago the horse used to come out the stable at seven in the morning he would n't go back till probably five at night . |
| 25 | He returned Malkin 's right-wing ball for Irons to crash a shot back off the crossbar , Aldridge reacting instinctively to hook the rebound in . |
| 26 | I do n't mind that so much though , 'cos they say we are paying a lot less back a month than other way . |
| 27 | But it had been years , even then , since Elvis was top of the Hit Parade , and if all he had to offer the world was slicked-back hair and a sulky pout , the Dead Loss was set to slip a lot further down the charts , and Mary was n't going to be there to see it . |
| 28 | The door of the solar closed behind them ; their feet felt a way silently down the staircase . |
| 29 | In a speech later on the same day , Rabin referred to the " autonomy " to be ceded during a five-year transitional period to the Palestinians of the occupied territories , and emphasized that by " autonomy … |
| 30 | The caves of Postojna and Škocjan are notable tourist attractions , and there is even a castle , Predjamski Grad , built into the mouth of a cave halfway up a sheer limestone cliff , to which access can be gained by way of a labyrinth of underground passages . |