Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | FILM beauty Kim Basinger was in pain last night with a foot stress fracture — after pedalling too hard on an exercise bike in a Hollywood gym . |
| 2 | Enough to remind her of the consequences of submitting so easily to a man who despised her . |
| 3 | You should not use this sort of trick anywhere else in a program . |
| 4 | Furthermore a student who had a fragile grasp of particular concepts and skills would have a reduced chance of getting much further in a graduated test scheme . |
| 5 | The Jerry troops just sort of walked right through in a lot of places , and the next thing anyone knew we were retreating . |
| 6 | She 's capable of doing very well in a major crisis . |
| 7 | Think about how history can be promoted as a school subject , instead of jumping straight in with a myriad of reasons why it can not . |
| 8 | Commissioning research on the use of deprivation indices in allocating formulas is therefore often seen as a means of arguing more effectively for a bigger share . |
| 9 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 10 | I was me and it was both frightening and exciting , like driving very fast round a precipitous bend with someone now and again taking my hands off the wheel and forcing me to trust . |
| 11 | It was a bit like sitting very quietly in a forest and waiting for a rare and timid wild animal to come out . |
| 12 | He and others set up a rival ‘ underground ’ publication , the Shilling Paper , which , though a great success on its own terms , was useless as a credential for getting straight on to a Fleet Street paper such as the Sunday Times . |
| 13 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 14 | After citing passages from Amand 's case Sir John Donaldson M.R. , with whose judgment Kerr and Lloyd L.JJ. agreed , observed , at p. 977 , that he could not think of a case in which the order appealed from arose more clearly in a criminal cause or matter . |
| 15 | She made a mental note to check the tariff later with the receptionist — there would be little point in living so comfortably for a few weeks if the bill swallowed most of her wages at the end of it . |
| 16 | The point my modern Tory rebel was making was a different one : that a government with a majority that could be eradicated if 11 of its MPs vote with the other side , or 22 abstain , does well to sound out its own supporters before going too far down a controversial road . |
| 17 | ‘ And there was I , in Prague , thinking that you would n't discuss the interview then and there because you were drained from working so long without a break . ’ |
| 18 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 19 | It would n't be on walking much further to a bus stop somewhere else , especially in the winter when it 's raining and snowing . ’ |
| 20 | Dari Sound was also occupied over hurdles but had been out of action since running slightly disappointingly in a two-and-a-half-mile race at Uttoxeter early in December . |
| 21 | He took to drinking almost constantly from a champagne bottle in his hand , while his two girls — one fair , one dark — gave the proceedings a weirdly festive air . |
| 22 | I think your lombardoi is abrading her upper lip on something — possibly through digging too close to a rock , so that her upper lip gets rubbed . |
| 23 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's something quite exhilarating about working so closely in a team and doing your job so well . |
| 25 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 26 | Firstly , a small saver is able to minimise risk by investing quite cheaply in a much wider range of assets than would be possible by direct investment . |
| 27 | With the approach of war , the children responded to the danger by working more closely as a group , by exceeding their targets for filling sandbags , and by camouflaging their tents with foliage . |