Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 2 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 3 | down exhausted on to a chair . |
| 4 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 5 | Yes , er , we put that on as a , we bought it as a do it yourself job . |
| 6 | The project will comprise a review of pertinent research findings--notably from the study of small businesses , urban geography and regional economics--together with an investigation of specific practical initiatives in the area of local business development . |
| 7 | I liked to think that , while discreet enough for an important occasion , the ensemble made its own kind of personal statement . |
| 8 | Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water . |
| 9 | They all plead not guilty along with a fifth man , Kenneth Osborne . |
| 10 | The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’ |
| 11 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 12 | The chimps ' individuality has always delighted and fascinated her , and Jomeo and Gigi , two full-blown eccentrics , are given a chapter each in Through a Window . |
| 13 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 14 | Once viewed as not ample enough for a family meal , duck is now available in boneless breast fillets and joints which make portion control and carving easier . |
| 15 | There are one or two others but I just bring that along as a . |
| 16 | No they have n't got that in for a little while . |
| 17 | I , I will I 'll stick that in for a few grand . |
| 18 | your that we 've put that in as a recommendation . |
| 19 | Some people do n't mind answering machines , I must say , I 'm beginning to get used to them now , I think the problem is that it sort of wrong-foots you , so you get an answering machine , and think ‘ Oh my God ’ , and you know that in about a few seconds time , when you hear that bleep , you 've got to give a concise message which will be intelligible to the person when they replay it , so instead of coming out with sort of babble , you 're forced into thinking what the essence of the message is that you want to leave . |
| 20 | Well on theirs I 'm allowed to give you a discount , I bring that down to a B. The higher up you 're going . |
| 21 | Well I 'll drop that down to a C , that 'd be a hundred and fourteen . |
| 22 | I put that down to a lack of maturity and the effects of tension — there were many occasions when players tried to blast the ball into the net at 100mph instead of remaining cool under pressure . |
| 23 | We wanted to that down to a straightforward ‘ The Chief , District Chief Environmental Health Officer , name , says the Environmental Protection Act would mean . ’ |
| 24 | So put that down for a second will we ? |
| 25 | Erm I mean we 'll put that down as a third reserve . |
| 26 | You 'd gain if you avoided putting that down as a score draw , especially of course if it did n't turn out to be a score draw . |
| 27 | We went to , er , we felt that we needed , er , a U S director because much of our business is in the U S with wide marketing experience we went to , erm , headhunters er , in America who drew up er , a list of sixty people , culled from their own research erm we narrowed that down as an executive to twelve . |
| 28 | In Egypt , do you see what I mean , so that you can have and put that down as an example , so you can have . |
| 29 | And of course we used to have desk infect inspections , of course we used to take that down before a desk inspection you see , this we had a surprise inspection and lifted it up and saw this and read it out , read it , Right , he said , And we 'll go God 's going to help you do something else , come out . |
| 30 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |