Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew roughly where he was , or he knew in theory , and he stumbled slowly along in a westerly direction , sometimes holding onto the trunk of a birch tree . |
| 2 | The narrowing of differences is revealed most obviously in a comparison of unemployment rates over the last decade . |
| 3 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |
| 4 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 5 | Athenagoras , the Syracusan demagogue , is made by Thucydides ( vi.38 ) to say that Syracuse ‘ is only rarely in a state of internal peace ’ . |
| 6 | forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ? |
| 7 | I 'll be all right in a minute ’ , and then she goes , ‘ I 'll let you off this time ’ , and then I did it again — a really loud one , and she goes , ‘ Fay , you 're going to have to go to the Headmistress ’ , she goes … |
| 8 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |
| 9 | He 'll be all right in a minute . " |
| 10 | You 'll be all right in a couple of days , they said , and in her disorientation Chesarynth thought , Days are geography not time . |
| 11 | I shall be all right in a moment . ’ |
| 12 | Woosnam is not sure whether to follow Bernhard Langer and several other leading players and putt cack-handed in future left hand below right in a determined bid to get back to his best . |
| 13 | The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists . |
| 14 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 15 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I take the view that it is wise for ministers to have sufficiently long in a job to get thoroughly on top of it . ’ |
| 17 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 18 | What was your priorities when you were doing that , what were your priorities as far as , was it to get it all down or was it just to get in down in a particular way what what do you see as the priorities when you were talking about doing it ? |
| 19 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
| 20 | Naturally enough in a recession , insolvency and corporate recovery have boomed , though even that is slowing down now . |
| 21 | Ranges of imagery such as that of the plough may be symbolic , but are only so in a particular type of fabliau symbolism : disgraceful or phallic in their symbolic reference in a manner that is the very antitype of Christian moralization . |
| 22 | Yes , but it could have worked much , much better in a standing room only venue such as Newcastle Polytechnic or The Mayfair . |
| 23 | ‘ To put it in words of one syllable , ’ he said , each word encased in ice , ‘ we are a man and a woman shut up together alone in a house , separated from all other humans by a stretch of Atlantic . |
| 24 | One law for the rich and another for the poor , as the two systems can be made to seem , are laid down together in a book which commemorates a desertion , on the author 's part , of the rich for the poor . |
| 25 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 26 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 27 | Freud , in Civilization and its Discontents , advanced the profoundly historicist suggestion that we should be cautious about interpreting the miseries of earlier times , since what now looks like unacceptable suffering may have felt less so in a different culture . |
| 28 | So so in a way , they 're looking at the levels we 're at now is an accurate level using a high price item . |
| 29 | Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited . |
| 30 | what 's a black arrow pointing up over with a black arrow pointing down over in a triangle ? |