Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [adv] in a " in BNC.

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1 The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel .
2 One thing is certain : further changes in the 1990s will reflect the role of the railway as a business out there in a hard , competitive world .
3 And finally a 40 strong choral group from Oxford have been singing their hearts out today in a bid to win a place in a national competition .
4 Yes oh I ee I , I 'm led to understand that he , he built that church and I 'm led to understand that at the same time he started , he came as a curate to St Matthew 's and then he came to Street into a house and he had a little , he started a little church down there in a private house and then he built the church .
5 He opened his arms out wide in a gesture of helplessness .
6 It 's meaningless and long ago and far away and — ’ He tapped his pipe out aggressively in a saucer .
7 We can , on every Friday there was a union official down there in a small hut .
8 Meadow pipits rose , singing , into the air , and ‘ tseep-tseep'-ed down again in a slow parachute descent .
9 Yeah but I 'm on my way up there in a minute hopefully !
10 Former Pakistan captain Asif believes England could struggle to bowl India out twice in a match — ‘ They need the right bowlers on those Indian tracks , because they do n't get much assistance from the surface .
11 ‘ Two men to get out of a van down there in a minute 's time and tell my father that Sean Walsh is a criminal wanted for six murders in Dublin and that he has to be handcuffed and out of there this instant . ’
12 Try leaving his nappy off again in a few months ' time .
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