Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 2 | Oh I I think , think that they differed in as far as they were a tiny little bit more ambitious and wanted a sort of erm a a little bit better life , but everybody even in the terraced houses they were all very respectable people , very respectable people I mean er I |
| 3 | This time he hugged the point , coming in as close as he dared to the rocks , and felt the gut-wrenching tug of the rip as he approached the shore . |
| 4 | Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two . |
| 5 | I said well I should get in as quick as possible |
| 6 | ‘ Tarpon can weigh in as big as small dolphins . |
| 7 | Oh yes yes oh well yes for a rum and coffee yeah , and I 'm afraid it was very acceptable on a winter 's morning , but erm now we come , we 've come on that side of Road , we 'll now start at the top of Road again and come along as far as er what I call Street I believe it 's now where St Michael 's church is , and you come to Sammy the butchers . |
| 8 | I felt queasy with fright for his teeth had been filed down as sharp as dagger points . |
| 9 | Wonderful song still goes down as good as ever and I have to say we still get the same buzz out of singing it every night . |
| 10 | The Bank , as we know , came up with another offer later in the year which must go down as historic as it entailed a zero increase for a nineteen month period . |
| 11 | To test this , she wished again — this time that she could fly down as low as the treetops . |
| 12 | My method now is to take the tension setting down as low as the thickness of the yarn will allow , knit a couple of rows , then increase to the loose tension . |
| 13 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 14 | Well , keep it down as low as you can because the lower you keep it , the less chance there is of getting this biopsy done . |
| 15 | I ca n't , because I ducked down as low as I could , controlling Armstrong 's wheel with just my left hand , the injured right tucked between my legs . |
| 16 | It 's very to keep the prices down as low as possible , I think |
| 17 | No , keep it down as low as you can because , the lower you keep it the less chance of there is of getting this biopsy done . |
| 18 | Which is centred on Birmingham and goes up as far as the Humber Estuary and down as far as the Severn Estuary . |
| 19 | and I went down as far as er |
| 20 | I went down as far as Frank 's |
| 21 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 22 | You go round that corner not off that way towards the wards just go from the desk right round the corner and follow it right the way down as far as you can go . |
| 23 | These services of course have to be paid for and we do aim to keep the level of taxation as low as possible but of course we ca n't aim to bring it down as far as conservatives would want because we need , we in the city need , to spend money on things like the education fund without which it becomes a city less worth living in . |
| 24 | First of all it was just covering the North Atlantic , the eastern seaboard of the States , perhaps Greenland and Iceland , and Europe down as far as North Africa , and erm we concentrated on that part of the atmosphere , but of course the atmosphere is continuous all round the globe , and whatever happens in any part of that atmosphere , any part of the globe , has some affect on the rest of the atmosphere . |
| 25 | Yes , you have to dig down as far as you can to get the roots in properly but , you know , it should be just the depth of one spade , so most people ought to be able to dig a hole that size . |
| 26 | Gas Prices are going up in March by 7.5% , another Building Society , the Halifax has put up its interest rates , although first time buyers are being spared the increase , and the Chancellor , John Major says the gloomy news is n't over , because inflation is n't coming down as fast as he predicted . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the chancellor , John Major says the gloomy news is n't over , because inflation is n't coming down as fast as he 'd predicted . |
| 28 | Another Building Society , the Halifax , has put up its interest rates , although first time buyers are being spared the increase , and the chancellor , John Major , says the gloomy news is n't over because inflation is n't coming down as fast as he predicted . |
| 29 | and er eighteen feet wide so that you can get a dozen down there seated if necessary , you know , yeah |
| 30 | This tip apparently came in pretty handy when a bus she was on coming out of Dar es Salaam was robbed . |