Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [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 | And if it 's a few pence out , they 're not going to worry about it , particularly if I tell them , I , I added a bit on so that I 'm telling them less . |
| 6 | A bit longer today cos of the fog . |
| 7 | I wished I 'd of stayed a bit longer now and had another look around |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ What ought we to do ? ’ said Fenella , a bit more loudly than she had meant . |
| 11 | In think you can write about it a bit more meaningfully than that . ’ |
| 12 | Well you 'll have to put him down a bit more carefully than that . |
| 13 | ‘ I would suggest that you think a bit more carefully before you decide to commit yourself to another long-term relationship . ’ |
| 14 | Once she 's in a routine a bit more then but we are still trying to do as many |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I wish we 'd got a bit further really but it 's hard work . |
| 18 | It 's a bit late now and opportunities are very limited . |
| 19 | Yeah but she does a bit out here and I 'm bit , feel a bit embarrassed when him and |
| 20 | Martin Hines says he 's been a winner here twice and everyone will be looking to beat him . |
| 21 | Nominate a direction once more and move the Squig Hopper again in the same way . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | and er they got a board out there and had that sort of three twenty five and things like , that 's very good . |
| 25 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 26 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 27 | And Catherine has a heart as deep as mine ! ’ |
| 28 | The star of the show , of course , was Ebenezer Scrooge , the greedy , grasping grouch with a heart as hard as left-over Christmas pud . |
| 29 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 30 | I 'll get him in a Glory all right and up Monument Hill . ’ |