Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was another thing discovered : carp seemingly preferred baits that had a tough , leathery skin , which is achieved by rolling the HNV paste into bait-sized balls and boiling them for up to two minutes . |
| 2 | When the person is admitted , that key worker will be on duty and will work with them for up to a six week period in constructing their care plan . ’ |
| 3 | They continued to provide both practical help with job hunting and emotional support until people were placed , staying with them for up to a year afterwards when this was necessary . |
| 4 | Magazines are very seldom reviewed but we depend on them for up to date information . |
| 5 | Their holiday will sustain them for up to 18 months . |
| 6 | Bootleggers then copy the film onto hundreds of VHS tapes and sell them for up to £12 a piece . |
| 7 | Yes and he , he said to Norman do you want these , he bought them for somewhere for the house |
| 8 | She must must must give him the money , the ships , anything , and he must must must carry her flag and her favour beyond the end of the end of the earth , into exaltation and immortality , linking them for ever with bonds far harder to dissolve than those of any mortal love , the harsh and deifying ties of history . |
| 9 | This is why I had the right attitude when I first got to British Aerospace , anybody any , any anything anybody could tell me about how to fucking like that |
| 10 | ‘ Going by form she 'll have had someone in there with her . ’ |
| 11 | Already he felt uneasy here , in the presence of someone from out of his sphere . |
| 12 | Been over here for six months , his over here for three years in all , so . |
| 13 | But there was someone at least in that dreadful place who had a thought for others besides himself . |
| 14 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 15 | If you have somebody like somewhere like that |
| 16 | Well anybody knows she actually int cos there was nobody in there to , to see what she were doing with it . |
| 17 | Clearly they have no power to do so , even if somebody asks them to , somebody from outside for instance , erm , and , and also when they do get a fire certificate , is there a display for it ? |
| 18 | ‘ He used to go into the bathroom and lock himself in there for hours . |
| 19 | Half-jokingly , but with a certain edge , Moran said that Great Meadow was so deserted that he himself might have to remove himself before long to her house . |
| 20 | Benedict himself , who had stayed the previous night , had driven himself over there in his phaeton , glad to be relieved of his cousin 's irksome company . |
| 21 | Perhaps he could bring himself to back into Karen 's bowl ? |
| 22 | Well I think it 's a joint er it 's a joint thing it 's an agreement we have with the United States Air Force , they send somebody over here to our Academy and then erm we send somebody over there . |
| 23 | So he 's separated himself at least from that he 's pu he 's put at least one barrier between him . |
| 24 | I think that 's why he took Belasco 's story , which at least on the surface seems to be rather second-rate . |
| 25 | This would be all very well , if the plants of the phytoplankton could make do entirely on solar energy , which at least in the tropics is abundant all year round , and on carbon dioxide , which is always available in solution . |
| 26 | ‘ Ethical ’ is to be preferred to ‘ moral ’ because to speak of ‘ moral positivism ’ implies that the role of law is simply to apply the moral rules of society , whereas the theory is that law deals with conflict in a way which at least in part transcends the moral disagreements endemic in societies of men or of nations . |
| 27 | He replaced the overlapping chancelleries with colleges in which efficiency was to be ensured by the mutual responsibility of thirteen top officials in each , and which at least in theory had more clearly defined duties . |
| 28 | It has been argued up to now that although word-meaning is in a sense infinitely variable , nonetheless discrete units — ‘ atoms ’ or ‘ quanta ’ of sense — can be identified which at least in some respects are stable across contexts , and which are the appropriate basic units for lexical semantics . |
| 29 | A corollary is the absence of any comment on the substitution of Latin for Greek as the leading cultural language in the rest of Italy and on the diffusion of Latin in the western provinces — which at least in the time of Posidonius must have been evident . |
| 30 | This was a territory which at least in the fourth and third centuries B.C. extended from Spain to the Black Sea , included northern Italy and large patches of the Banubian regions , and after 279 B.C. had reached the heart of Asia Minor — the new Galatia . |