Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've obviously just come out of a shower . ’ |
| 2 | Ellwood said , ‘ So just stick around for a little longer , yeah ? |
| 3 | Hands are not so easy come by for a slaver . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm fine , ’ said Henry , ‘ but this means I 'd better just pop out for a second . ’ |
| 5 | You 're better off going out as a threesome or a foursome |
| 6 | The truly interested would undoubtedly be better off sitting down with a less amusing but ultimately more useful camcorder manual . |
| 7 | I remember Otto mentioning that she entertained him there with Jean-Claude , and only later moved out into a room over the Café du Coin , to be nearer her ‘ young man ’ . |
| 8 | This effectively risks a breakdown in the Co-operative Principle ( CP ) , though the CP can only really break down by a reader stopping reading . |
| 9 | They rummage around and every so often come up with a new act . |
| 10 | The Teddy Boys also coexisted with compulsory military service — which is so often wheeled out as a panacea for the troubles of youth — and national service was even condemned in the 1950s as ‘ a positive adverse influence on young people ’ because of the way in which it interrupted the transition from school to work and encouraged an ‘ eat , drink and be merry ’ philosophy . |
| 11 | and things like that and it only , it 's only become and really it 's only actually set up as a business school quite recently as well , I mean what in the past ten years or something |
| 12 | It 's just basically set up for a rape scene . |
| 13 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 14 | My own guess , in the latter case , is that sheer ecstasy came with the discovery that it was possible not only to walk out of a marriage , but to do so and flourish , and that the rest of her life was devoted to recapturing this outrageous , outcast joy . |
| 15 | If you generally only go out as a treat , a commitment to healthy eating will mean that you want to choose dishes that build on the good work you have carried on at home . |
| 16 | He was pleased at the news , though it must be reported not exactly knocked down with a feather . |
| 17 | Life is not just sailing through on a mill pond with sort of red sails in the sunset and that idyllic picture , life is not like that . |
| 18 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 19 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 20 | Just finally looking back over a career that spans now five decades , is there anything you 'd have done differently over the years ? |
| 21 | But to this day he had not once sat down at a table prepared by Beth , and both she and David knew only too well that it was a deliberate snub . |
| 22 | ( Yet again it must be said — an argument which does not directly arise out of a golden thread approach but which is pertinent here — the two passages in the new testament which speak of women 's subordination both rely on the Genesis account of creation and fall , an account no longer valid in a post-Darwinian age . ) |
| 23 | Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced . |
| 24 | Let us assume that you have reached the point in your synspilums ' development where you are setting up their permanent breeding quarters , probably using a 60″ × 18″ × 18″ tank or larger ; you might just about scrape by with a 48″ , but this is not really recommended . |
| 25 | Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion . |
| 26 | Of great methodological importance is the principle of accountability , which in essence states that analysts should not selectively pick out from a text those variants of a variable which tend to confirm their argument , while ignoring others which do not . |
| 27 | But putting these accounts together does not unfortunately add up to a multi-dimensional model which could provide the basis for a general theory ; it only amplifies their essentialism . |
| 28 | This Pentax weather-resistant camera arrived to be tested at a very opportune moment — I was just about to head off for a surfing weekend in North Cornwall . |
| 29 | ‘ I am not about to sit down to a meal with you , ’ she said bitingly , ‘ Nor am I — ’ |
| 30 | Graham Taylor 's battling heroes could not quite hold on for a win that would have allowed the beleaguered England manager to say ‘ Nuts ’ to his critics . |