Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were up there alone in your tower all morning and you 've been away out an hour or more — ’ |
| 2 | ‘ How did the mice come to be halfway down a cliff in the first place ? ’ he had asked her . |
| 3 | Cobalt and the white-haired woman were halfway up a flight of stairs . |
| 4 | If anyone had searched the site , they would surely have found the tokens for they were only down an inch or two . |
| 5 | The Hotel Pinar is just back a bit from the beach , with its own pool and an à la carte restaurant set on a roof terrace overlooking the wooded landscape towards the sea . |
| 6 | It 's not up an awful lot but it is still up a bit . |
| 7 | It is now up a quarter on what it was 10 years ago , investments are up a third , productivity is up by a half and exports are up by three quarters . |
| 8 | I was only back a couple of days and it started again . |
| 9 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 10 | The camp was actually down a farm track to one side of the base . |