Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm then it goes on about quite a bit of this Erm perception and decoding of the speech style er talking about er Martin and Giles . |
| 2 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 3 | Other symptoms were deemed to be present if they occurred on at least a quarter of the days or occasions , except that passage of mucus was taken as a symptom if it had ever occurred ( this being normal clinical practice ) . |
| 4 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 5 | Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity . |
| 6 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 7 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 8 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 9 | Zurich has benefited in its search for profitable target markets from having a strong international network , built up over nearly a century , with operations in 40 countries . |
| 10 | The lovely smell of beer and tobacco smoke built up over almost a hundred years was being driven out by other smells : fresh paint , newly-glued-together plastic and fried food . |
| 11 | It adds up to quite an incentive for the ‘ King of the Park ’ Kenny McKinstry who will be bidding for an unprecedented sixth victory this year , and a second in a row in his Kaliber Subaru Legacy . |
| 12 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 13 | ‘ I was walking back for over an hour through deserted streets . |
| 14 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |
| 15 | Not expected back for quite a while yet , I suppose ? |
| 16 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
| 17 | Distillation may be carried out in either a batch process , using a pot still , or a continuous process , using a patent or Coffey still . |
| 18 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 19 | I came down with quite a thud , and hit my head on the stair post . ’ |
| 20 | The company came in for quite a bit of stick with their new version of the Escort and if the Mondeo had not been well received they could have been in real trouble . |
| 21 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 22 | On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows . |
| 23 | By 1660 , the mill had been built up to quite a substantial and sophisticated concern , now housing three pairs of fulling stocks , dye houses and shearing and warping rooms . |
| 24 | Racal 's share price suddenly shot up by almost a third , despite the fact that the partial flotation would have absolutely no effect on the already-excellent prospects for Vodafone . |
| 25 | She only did , them drama people came up with quite a lot ideas |
| 26 | Them drama people came up with quite a good id couple of good ideas . |
| 27 | and with regard to the three bedrooms do you actually need three bedrooms or if a a two bedroomed cottage came up with perhaps an extra room downstairs or something would that be okay ? |
| 28 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
| 29 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 30 | And it is a big let-down when they fizzle out with only a snap , crackle and pop . |