Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 2 | Only eat meat which has been cooked thoroughly right through i.e. brown with no trace of blood or pinkness . |
| 3 | Did you sleep right through then last night ? |
| 4 | And he will again introduce youngsters on the periphery of recognition — a policy which he has adopted successfully for almost two seasons . |
| 5 | Until its eventual collapse under the weight of accumulated economic pressures , the system operated successfully for almost 20 years . |
| 6 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 7 | In the South-West , 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000 , mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry . |
| 8 | At any one time there are a significant number of women who are particularly distressed and disturbed serving prison sentences , mostly for very trivial offences . |
| 9 | Britain , after 1945 , still had worldwide markets , but these were mostly for relatively old technology products such as steam engines and steel rails . |
| 10 | Eventually through reasonably correct bid evaluation , we began to learn how to cost out inferior bids , when we had a very very low bid in we could see that certain things had been skimped , certain things might even have been missed out completely , and we then began to cost the effect of that on the organization . |
| 11 | The period covered by the narrative in Acts begins shortly after the Crucifixion and ends somewhere between A.D. 64 and 67 . |
| 12 | The old man 's name was Brenner and he chose a Dunkel and a Korn — a very dark beer plus a chaser of the local heart-stopper that tasted somewhere between very young whisky and vodka . |
| 13 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 14 | Flat , green and verdant on one side , the other rises skyward for nearly three hundred metres like a vast cathedral spire . |
| 15 | In private most managers worry intensely about how corrosive the change will be . |
| 16 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 17 | Anyone else would be going on about softly wooded fissures and sweetly mounded hills . |
| 18 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 19 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 20 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 21 | Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ? |
| 22 | ‘ Back there in the lift earlier you did n't instantly and gallantly leap to my defence and punch Florian on the nose when he was carrying on about how undesirable I am ! ’ |
| 23 | You 'll find me banging on about how great the ‘ Back In Denim ’ LP is elsewhere in this issue so you can drop most of the theories there . |
| 24 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 25 | Just this fat bloke going on about how much he does n't know . ’ |
| 26 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 27 | They 're always going on about how much Shrimpy gets other people involved and ca n't stick up for himself are n't they ? |
| 28 | If somebody keeps on going abo on about how much they love you , if somebody keeps on going on about they care for you and how much they 'd like you to enjoy yourself and er all that kind of thing and you subsequently feel hurt , upset , abused and need to go to casualty , that 's probably a lot more difficult to understand because it does n't fit the script . |
| 29 | I could go on about how many different sounds you can muster from Marshall 's new baby , but there are just so many that this would be unrealistic . |
| 30 | But then he kept going on about how brilliant your party was gon na be and everything and I 'm sat there thinking let's face it , if I come on between you know , because like , it would have been alright cos I 'd be finished like , today or tomorrow and then it would have been like nice and ready for the party ! |