Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angelica left the train on a stretcher in the dusk under bright station lights , her tomato head half covered by a blanket , and one lifeless hand , with red fingernails and sparkling rings , artistically drooping out of concealment on the side where the train 's passengers were able to look on with fascination . |
| 2 | He smiled as he watched Sammy cycle a little unsteady out of the yard . |
| 3 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 4 | A serious concern of the author 's is that governments ' commitment to education , so strong up to the mid-1970s , has waned . |
| 5 | I think what 's happened the moon is is either set already or it 's so low down in the sky we ca n't see it because the buildings and things are in the way . |
| 6 | He must , he must get so pissed off with that must n't he ? |
| 7 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 8 | While thirteen out of twenty middle-class women ( sixty-five per cent ) ‘ mind ’ describing themselves as housewives on a form , only eight out of twenty working-class women ( forty per cent ) state this objection . |
| 9 | Only eight out of 26 ministers retained their posts in a new Cabinet announced on July 19 ; key ministries remaining in the same hands included Defence under Maj.-Gen. |
| 10 | Only eight out of more than two hundred teams made it to today' final at Silverstone |
| 11 | Even so , the 1974 Press Commission estimated that perhaps eight out of fifteen mornings they examined were being subsidized by an evening paper . |
| 12 | ChildLine has the resources to answer only 2,700 out of 10,000 calls attempted to its freephone number every day from children across the UK . |
| 13 | However , their tests found only 2 out of the 183 possible risk premiums to be significantly different from zero . |
| 14 | We have Pope , who is really the Elizabethan satiric style , more or less born out of Horace , and a little improved or at least regularized . |
| 15 | ‘ This will leave only 800 out of 2,500 stations fully manned . ’ |
| 16 | The All Whites , staying on course for a First Division and cup double , were only 10–0 up at half-time with a stiff breeze behind them . |
| 17 | In the seven months to November 1992 , it had lost only 300 out of 37,000 customers , mainly as a result of deaths . |
| 18 | One man told me that they left a rough sort of ramp at one side of the corn , and the horse slid down this on to the middlestead . |
| 19 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 20 | I have seen ACE schemes that are doing very good work but are more or less driven out of the place they are in because people did n't like their faces , or for other reasons . |
| 21 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 22 | I 'm literally wet through in the night , I was ! |
| 23 | I hope now that perhaps the legal proceedings can be held in abeyance and discussions can take place so some out of court settlement can be reached as the judges are urging . |
| 24 | Well I 'd like to see it Jonathan but I do n't I had so much on at |
| 25 | ‘ And here 's some extra to get your car cleaned after I 've dripped so much on to it . ’ |
| 26 | well I do n't think it matters so much in with the |
| 27 | Well you can fit so much in to an hour I mean it 's not rushed . |
| 28 | I mean er scrap iron , I mean I 've done that erm where we 've loaded scrap iron ships but they do n't do none of that now and when you load scrap iron put so much in on the floor and then dockers would pull it apart and then there 'd then , mean you got ta go and pull a lot of that scrap iron out , load that off , well that the stevedore would say . |
| 29 | I am often asked how , with Biros vanishing as often as they do , is it possible for some writers to get so much down on paper in a single lifetime ? |
| 30 | Altrincham was writing not so much out of malice as out of a wish to save the monarchy if not from itself , then from the court . |