Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | New the warehousing and distribution system for those odd orders of a base here and a lid there is being introduced in all factories . |
| 2 | She knocks Roberto out , ties him to a chair , and , brandishing a gun , tells her astonished husband she wants a trial here and now . |
| 3 | Awkwardly and delicately , as if her own arms and hands were unfamiliar tools , she gathered flowerpots on a cleared area of ledge , took a bucket outside and poured away the green standing slime . |
| 4 | We can put a bucket on and it fills ours up , she can put a bucket on and it 's flat . |
| 5 | We can put a bucket on and it fills ours up , she can put a bucket on and it 's flat . |
| 6 | Place a bucket underneath and poke wire about inside to remove blockages |
| 7 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 8 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
| 9 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 10 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 11 | Taking part in moots will help you in these respects , and also give you experience in the art of persuasion , and of putting a case succinctly and intelligibly . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm getting a case together and it 's going in the right direction . |
| 13 | She was able to warn her manager that for a while she might be a bit slower and occasionally a bit tearful . |
| 14 | Right what do you put a bit on and then erm dry it with a hairdryer . |
| 15 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 16 | but I know it cos the other week when I had to work till half past eight for Peter , he was having a dinner party and erm we went down there , I had to go shopping with him , he made me die cos he asked me if I 'd work a bit later and I said yeah I need the money , so I 'll work later so er he made me die because he said in this flare up , this argument when when I worked that day , I mean , I worked all day , I had nothing to eat and I could n't eat af , you know , cos of this trouble I could n't eat after |
| 17 | Yeah well , I I pick Sue up a bit later and we 'll pop round for a cup of tea . |
| 18 | Cos that , that has been a bit up and down , |
| 19 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 20 | The land used to belong to Lord Linkhaven , up at the Hall ; to the present lord 's great-grandfer , I should say , but he had to sell a bit here and there — and that 's how the two villages came . |
| 21 | " No one chips in — only a bit here and there . " |
| 22 | Moderator I , one two eight six , I wondered whether a word from south of the border might be in order because in recent years in the Church of England we 've been busy discussing the theological foundations and the practical discipline in respect of several matters which fall under the general heading of Christian initiation and indeed we have been experimenting a bit here and there . |
| 23 | He reached for the case file and turned the pages , reading a bit here and a bit there , out of context and out of sequence . |
| 24 | Mostly it came over as a matter of feeling hard done by — self-pity rather than bravado ; or a habitual , weary tinkering to save a bit here and there . |
| 25 | sort of bits , I 've got a bit here and it says all landlords may be liquidated immediately you know |
| 26 | A bit here and there . |
| 27 | Then as he was passing a bit nearer and I came to him , he stopped again in the queue , I walked in and and I said , I knocked on his window and he put it down and I said , that was n't a very nice thing to do . |
| 28 | Julie Owens , 30 , personnel assistant ( right ) : ‘ I 'd rather the skirt was a bit longer and I prefer a court shoe . |
| 29 | I used to love the letters page but now it gets a bit bogged down in one debate — make it a bit longer and keep the ‘ one-off ’ letters/comments . |
| 30 | ‘ I think you 'd better stay a bit longer and Mary and I will take you home . ’ |