Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , Diana got on rather well with Adeane , who introduced her to many of the women she accepted as her ladies-in-waiting while she was an enthusiastic matchmaker , continually trying to pair off the difficult bachelor with unattached ladies . |
| 2 | They got on remarkably well as friends . |
| 3 | She still sees Bailey often , gets on extremely well with Catherine , Bailey 's current wife , and if he is out of town for long periods of time , they speak on the telephone . |
| 4 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
| 5 | Incorporated practices are already permitted ( subject to local law requirements ) if their business is carried on only wholly outside England and Wales so long as all directors and shareholders are properly qualified lawyers ( ie barristers or solicitors or locally qualified advocates etc ) and the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ( see above ) . |
| 6 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 7 | She got on so well with composer Jeff Wayne that he is also producing her first solo album . |
| 8 | Is n't it amazing — her getting on so well with Uncle Félix ? |
| 9 | Perhaps that last phrase gives us a clue as to why fundamentalism holds on so tenaciously to life . |
| 10 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 11 | Her anguish , Henry noted , went down rather well with Donald . |
| 12 | Any party which paid up could advertise , even the Raving Loonies who would probably fit in rather well in Darlington . ’ |
| 13 | Like a small Snipe with a much shorter bill , two narrow instead of one broad pale streaks on crown , and slower and less erratic flight , dropping down much sooner into cover . |
| 14 | For some reason , Abel 's offering seemed to go down much better with God than his brother 's did . |
| 15 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
| 16 | ‘ So why do you disapprove of my getting along so well with Emily ? ’ |
| 17 | But the pomp and splendour did not go down so well with Craig Chalmers . |
| 18 | Let's do some of those numbers that went down so well in Sun City ! |
| 19 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 20 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 21 | Plaice with smoked salmon , garnished with a fine , peppery leek and watercress sauce is a full-flavoured , main-course dish that went down especially well with Henry Lindeman 's Sémillon-Chardonnay from south-east Australia ( Spar , £3.99 ; Peter Dominic and Bottoms Up , £4.99 ) . |
| 22 | From the way Microsoft is talking , it will beat Taligent Inc 's Pink environment to market by a distance , but the company is risking confusing the market by bringing it in so soon after Windows NT . |
| 23 | I 'd hesitate to give much weight to her story in the normal run because she does seem to have a screw loose , but it ties in so well with Norman Pinder 's recollections , and they are totally independent witnesses . ’ |
| 24 | I was feeling guilty at giving in so easily to Billingsley 's blackmail . |
| 25 | From the start this was bound to be contentious , for it tied in so obviously with concern about newspaper chains , the power of large circulations and the alleged dangers of a too one-sided party press . |
| 26 | They want to know why we have to send in so often for reimbursment . |
| 27 | The finger , too , seemed to be going down fantastically well with Quigley . |
| 28 | He carried the curved steel tray over to the cage and set it down just out of reach , leaving it in view as he went back for a chair . |
| 29 | On such a picture , a region of space which contains more than its fair share of matter ought to pull in still more by gravity , so that a cluster of galaxies forms in the heart of a region of space sucked clean of matter . |
| 30 | AS HE HAD DONE after his return from Italy , Wolfgang settled down once more to life in Salzburg , mitigating the tedium of his official duties — albeit on improved terms — at the archbishop 's court with a clutch of compositions . |