Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Erm but that you know that that did n't carry on much more than a few days after the the initial disturbances .
2 He was ill — except that how many diseases came on so quickly that a man could send you flowers in the morning and by dinner be incapable of lifting the telephone ?
3 It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin .
4 We passed along slowly so that the cortège could be seen and all could have a last look at the coffin .
5 We were down , we were down much further and the hospital was that opposite the park , like , is it the park or something ?
6 B T say the same , that for twenty years the firm was in deficit and both managements put in much more than the Trust Deed says to keep us to keep the fund afloat .
7 However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential .
8 The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper could n't keep the glass free of it .
9 When chipping and pitching into the wind , the ball will settle down more quickly and the stroke must be quite positive , with a quite noticeable acceleration through impact .
10 In slightly less than a year , citizens high expectations had been shattered and it was all over .
11 We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current …
12 Jeane Russell brought his arm down as easily as a barmaid pulling a pint and dropped his hand into a burning ashtray .
13 The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine .
14 Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed .
15 He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day .
16 He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory .
17 Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore ?
18 The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin .
19 Consequently , social groups down as far as the craftsmen and artisans developed " an appetite for mass-consumption " which survived the impact of faster population growth in the second half of the century .
20 Ireland 's top pair Eavan Higgins and Tracy Eakin , one down as early as the second hole , fought all the way against Nikki Buxton and Joanne Morley but were finally beaten by one hole .
21 Carcinoma , methadone , diabetes , depression , miscarriage and angina have poured down as unremittingly as the weather .
22 In the afternoon , Gould 's rebellion went down even faster than the Tory £ .
23 I 've got one testicle down here somewhere and the other one 's still embedded in bedroom .
24 The fluctuations in Scottish support for political nationalism would suggest that the sense of Scottish identity , separateness from the English and resentment against England , has bounced up and down quite unsystematically since the last war .
25 He lifted Gazzer 's head slightly and then rammed it down again so that the bar chopped into his neck .
26 Mercedes-Benz , which originally developed airbag technology and which fits the US size bag as standard to all its products in the UK , argues that even if the full size bag is triggered accidentally , the inflation and deflation cycle is over so quickly that the driver does not lose control .
27 Jack 's house will fall over very easily because the walls are not vertical .
28 There were , the wedding would come off right enough but the reception would linger on night after night
29 The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows .
30 The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War .
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