Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To anyone who has n't been to , taught at or scrounged off , a modern university , the prospect of tracking somebody down with basically only a name to go on must sound daunting . |
| 2 | Kelly 's diaries ( he was swept down with fortunately only a twisted knee to show for it ) . |
| 3 | An edit will cut this pause ( called a ‘ run on ’ ) down to perhaps just a second on the finished version of the episode . |
| 4 | I think in some ways that particular example illustrates a characteristic of microcomputer systems in general , and that is that from a technological point of view what we 're talking about is an extremely sophisticated approach to the problem , but the objective is very clear ; that you come down to perhaps maybe a quarter or an eighth the amount of copper in the wiring harness . |
| 5 | ‘ I will be going down at least once a fortnight , the children enjoy all the sporting facilities and social life . |
| 6 | My father never visited Jubilee Street Elementary once in all the years I was there , but Granpa used to pop along at least once a term and have a word with Mr Cartwright my teacher . |
| 7 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 8 | Lyddy insisted on doing her hair over at least twice a day . |
| 9 | Take into account the size of aquarium when considering a skimmer , — it should turn the gallonage over at least twice an hour . |
| 10 | Turning her back on Ben Stack , Ann struck off in as straight a line as possible , eventually arriving at the main road , about three miles east of Scourie . |
| 11 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 12 | To prevent it happening again , turn the stopcock on and off at least once a year and close it half a turn from fully open . |
| 13 | The great dragon was angry but courteous , and he woke them up in as mannerly a way as he knew how . |
| 14 | literally thousands and the expenditure had , had gone up to well over a million pounds . |
| 15 | That said , some of the lyrics do n't stand up to too close an inspection : ‘ I ride my bike like it 's a rocket/I like to pop peoples ' eyes outta the socket ’ from the equally dubiously titled ‘ Whama-Lama-Bam-Bam-Boy ’ sounds like something outta Bizzerk , while lines beginning ‘ Hey pretty mama ’ should be left in the '70s , where they belong . |
| 16 | That said , some of the lyrics do n't stand up to too close an inspection : ‘ I ride my bike like it 's a rocket/I like to pop peoples ' eyes outta the socket ’ from the equally dubiously titled ‘ Whama-Lama-Bam-Bam-Boy ’ sounds like something outta Bizzerk , while lines beginning ‘ Hey pretty mama ’ should be left in the '70s , where they belong . |
| 17 | They bombarded him with letters and rang him up at least once a week . |
| 18 | Rhoda 's pain and Mr Rowse battled it out for well over a year . |
| 19 | Difficult though it was to come back after so long a lay-off , she was the runner-up in the Yorkshire Championship both in 1950 and in 1953 . |
| 20 | Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major . |
| 21 | The official parade was cut back to just under an hour and it was preceded by speeches from workers and politicians . |
| 22 | Galadriel 's song in the Common Speech ends with regret and a question , ‘ What ship would ever bear me back across so wide a Sea ? ’ , but her Quenya one on hope and an assertion , ‘ Maybe thou shalt find Valinor . |
| 23 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |