Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war went on for over a thousand years . |
| 2 | I think I need to put the immersion on for just a little while . |
| 3 | That went on for quite a long time |
| 4 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 5 | Erm a a you 're in for quite a good day . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's turned quite cold and I think we 're in for quite a wet spell . |
| 7 | That puts still more of a premium on shrewdly imaginative lineout tactics , married to throwing in of just the right pace and parabola . |
| 8 | If one of the other mainline batsmen had chipped in with even a 50 or 60 , England would probably have saved the match . |
| 9 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 10 | After all , I , along with almost every other British journalist in Mexico , had confidently predicted that England would reach the World Cup final for the second consecutive time and stubbornly resist Brazil 's attempt to take the trophy from them . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , expectations are rising that Sun will soon announce its awaited 45MHz Model 52 and 54 , which are to be dual and quad processor machines , along with perhaps an unanticipated 45MHz uniprocessor ( the Model 51 ? ) and a 50MHz single , dual or quad configuration ( the Model 61 ? ) . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , expectations are rising that Sun will soon announce its anticipated 45MHz Model 52 and 54 , set to be dual and quad machines , along with perhaps an unanticipated 45MHz uniprocessor ( the Model 51 ? ) and a 50MHz single , dual or quad configuration ( the Model 61 ? ) . |
| 13 | On the island of Luzon , the Agta people in the 1980s were down from about a thousand in 1936 to 609 . |
| 14 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 15 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 16 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 17 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 18 | put it down to just a useful . |
| 19 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 20 | It would be much more sensible if , as a staff writer in Ekonomska politika ( 15 February 1988 ) has suggested , the minimum point for assessing personal income tax were to be brought down to approximately the average income of each republic or province , and the scale of progressivity were to be less steep . |
| 21 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 22 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 23 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 24 | Now it 's down to about a hundred words . ’ |
| 25 | That was the position taken by pretty nearly all men of intelligence from the earliest historical times down to about a hundred bears ago . |
| 26 | And this actually goes down to about a hundred and eighty horsepower in some applications . |
| 27 | But we reckon that in actual fact if you erm do n't do the we just dis discount the billing and collection and the pensions conversions and so on that we will actually get some benefits from the , the , the things that we 've already put in place this year , we reckon we can reduce that overspend on that side of it down to about a hundred and eighty two thousand erm because it 's , it 's nominal paper er transactions in a way . |
| 28 | In the final stages , foxes can lose weight down to about a third . |
| 29 | The forecast from Chris Haskins of Northern Dairies which now owns Express Dairies and has over 3,000 milk rounds delivering a daily pinta to five million 5m doorsteps is that the fall in doorstep delivery will not stop until it is down to about a third of the total . |
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