Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this was rather uncomfortable , a year later we were allocated a council house , this house was in where our old house had been and my nana 's house was in the neighbouring village of , so luckily in all our moves my brother and I never had to move schools . |
| 2 | Ethel 's silent opinion was that Thomas 's strong point lay very much lower down than his brain . |
| 3 | successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it |
| 4 | ‘ Our legal adviser told us that using such a route could even lead to the club being closed down if their investigations opened up a real can of worms . |
| 5 | The cheetah can attain speeds of 97 kph for about 18 seconds , but soon slows down if his prey eludes him . |
| 6 | She felt compassionate like a mother and wanted to help him but the wheel had slowed down until its glow had died and she stood paralysed as if frozen in the aftermath of the death of the sun . |
| 7 | Mrs Stych was having difficulty starting her little car , so Mrs Frizzell bobbed her flower-decked head down until her hawklike nose was level with the half-open window . |
| 8 | She crooked her finger at him , and he bent down until her lips were at his ear . |
| 9 | The framework sank down until his lips were level with the floor . |
| 10 | She did n't wait for his reply , but eased his head down until his lips touched the erotic swelling of her beauteous boobs . |
| 11 | Knowledge is embodied if the functions in virtue of which the knowledge is attributed to the organism are at base carried out by bodily ( physiological ) mechanisms ; knowledge is built in if its embodiment is determined genetically rather than experientially . |
| 12 | Still , the door policy makes up for it — they let you in if your name is quite similar to one that 's on the guest list . |
| 13 | He later went on national television to state that he would stand down unless his new government gained public backing . |
| 14 | ‘ We have people working in banks coming in because their managers refuse to give them a loan . |
| 15 | They had to break in because their keys had been nicked . |
| 16 | That 's where Frank Cropper , below , comes in because his role as contracts supervisor includes training floor fitters as well as installing intricate floor designs at major exhibitions . |
| 17 | At no stage would this reference ever be admissible because it 's not going to be relevant after your shield 's gone in because your shield going in relates to the questions understanding be agree or correct me but this is how I understand the situation . |
| 18 | mother 's house in because my father was in in the first world war so my mum had to go to live with my grandmother and er I was born there and er then when my father came home we came back to my mum came back to she ha got a little house somewhere I forget where it was street , does n't s it 's not there any more . |
| 19 | Turner carefully opened the wire cutters and slid them in till their twin prongs enclosed the blue wire like a thrush 's beak . |
| 20 | I have n't a thing in till her money goes in end of month she only gets paid end of month |
| 21 | At one point the world 's biggest cobalt producer , Gécamines , had to shut down because its Belgian expatriate managers had been evacuated . |
| 22 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 23 | In the end , Callaghan backed down because his private information suggested that Labour prospects were too precarious . |
| 24 | How dare this man demand his credentials as if he were some arriviste from the Colonies whose background had to be sniffed out and tracked down because his foreground was presumed to be so suspect ! |
| 25 | And it sort of weighed me down and slowed me down till my legs could n't hardly move . |
| 26 | We only pay interest on what we have actually borrowed so we are keeping our outgoings down till our new production facilities come on stream . ’ |
| 27 | Her eyes unfocused , her mind back in the past , she continued softly , reminiscently , ‘ It was after the war , you see , and women had become used to working , being independent , and jobs they 'd held down while their men were away fighting they were n't about to give up easily . |
| 28 | Her name was Annette and she seemed to do all the serving and running up and down while her rather dour and unhealthy-looking mother issued the orders . |
| 29 | ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride . |
| 30 | For ten to twenty minutes he would lie there without moving , except for one eyebrow which jigged up and down while his mouth twitched sideways . |