Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for just one more go at beating Phil at that bloomin' MicroProse Soccer … |
| 2 | Bob Monkhouse — already established as a leading comedy writer and just moving into performing — playing the poor wretch called up on his wedding day and Shirley Eaton as the NAAFI girl who would come back for just one more ‘ Carry On ’ . |
| 3 | It had twice the power of its single-engined sister , but far less of practically everything else . |
| 4 | William 's life — like that of nearly everyone else in Santa Fe — appears to be both blameless and obscure , and is occupied principally with the farming of bananas and taro plants on the shallow hillsides that slope down to a sluggish tributary of the Rio Sabanas . |
| 5 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 6 | With the success of the muscarinic experiment , I felt committed to the passive avoidance model , to the exclusion of almost everything else . |
| 7 | The programme dominated the next week and half , to the exclusion of almost everything else including common sense . |
| 8 | Her skin , like nearly everything else in the room , was ghostly white , yet strangely bruised along one cheekbone and about the neck . |
| 9 | The constructors ' championship winners , like nearly everyone else in Formula One , are alarmed at the threat posed by the actions of the French anti-smoking lobby and a provincial court 's action in fining Canon Williams Renault . |
| 10 | In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics . |
| 11 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 12 | A few minutes later he 's explaining that he recently left his agent at the powerful Creative Artists Agency so that , unlike almost everyone else in Hollywood , he would n't have to hand over ten per cent of everything he earned . |
| 13 | UNLIKE almost everyone else , many economists reckon insider dealing is rather a good thing . |
| 14 | So , compassion , like virtually everything else , is to be privatised . |
| 15 | Their childhoods , like almost everything else about them , were poles apart . |
| 16 | She sees this , like almost everything else in her life now , as a political issue , as a small part of the struggle against apartheid . |
| 17 | They started talking with animation , like almost everyone else in the car . |
| 18 | Furse concentrated on the public schools because he believed , like almost everyone else , that they provided an appropriate training in character for future rulers of native races . |
| 19 | It was not easy to grow up under the shadow is over whelming father as he lashed Iran into a nation , Like almost everyone else in Iran , the Crown Prince was very much afraid of him . |
| 20 | A small constellation with only one fairly bright star , Alpha ( 3.2 ) which is in the same × 7 field with Alpha Centauri . |
| 21 | Bloody well done , the S.A.S. Bissett , along with almost everyone else at A.W.E. , had a profound disrespect for the Ministry police . |
| 22 | What Dickson did do , along with almost everyone else in the event , was beat Jochen Schumann and Thierry Peponnet . |
| 23 | But all instances share one characteristic : the author 's words become for a time the transmitters of other voices , voices that come from inside someone else 's head . |
| 24 | Franco 's project stopped short of a royal palace or royal tombs , but it attempted to emulate El Escorial in virtually everything else , including its monastery , its panoramic vista towards Madrid , across the plain at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama , the bellic nature of its origin24 and the massive scale of its construction . |
| 25 | CIA International managing director Mike Morris says : ‘ There are more politics involved [ in creating a pan-European deal ] than in almost anything else you can mention . |
| 26 | It stems , therefore , from something primitive and far removed from almost everything else in the Old Testament , with the exception of an even stranger tale in Exodus 4.24–6 . |
| 27 | More deeply the Silmarils themselves seem to stem from yet one more philological crux , this time from Finnish . |
| 28 | But the marriage was a failure , marked in Snorri 's account by sudden quotation from yet one more lost poem : |
| 29 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 30 | Whatever his original professional expertise , the Profitboss professes to only one now . |