Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The flight right through France down to Geneva , over the Alps down to Genoa or Turin , was something of a rest from the normal German targets . |
| 2 | Pass first house ; ( bungalow ) then after 50 yds turn right through gate on to track . |
| 3 | Still others — few enough in number — advance relentlessly for reasons even they find hard to fathom . |
| 4 | Well , I thought it was mostly for people there . |
| 5 | It is rarely a main source of income ( for 4 per cent of lone parents in 1987 ) , the amounts awarded are generally low , they are mostly for children rather than spouses and payments are frequently unreliable . |
| 6 | We do n't know the exact date of birth of any early medieval king before Charles ( nor of most for centuries afterwards ) . |
| 7 | Britannia said the youth had been named unofficially as John in from Spain . |
| 8 | You on about Emma here ? |
| 9 | She 's always on about Alison like , I 'm sure she fucking does n't charge them for drinks . |
| 10 | Hunter was on about Deane not getting away from his marker enough , from corners and stuff he just sits and gets marked instead of moving out to the far post . |
| 11 | ‘ If only she would not go on about Cambridge so , ’ Miss Waters regretted . |
| 12 | Why not begin the day with SIR JAMES ANDERTON — MY WAY , and see if he starts wanking on about cesspools again ? |
| 13 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 14 | This should be all right for hours now . ’ |
| 15 | it 's to be hoped it does n't er go right for travel all around , like , you know |
| 16 | But if it 's all right for wives to have this status , then it 's all right for cohabitees too . |
| 17 | But then there was a knock on the door , the messenger unlocked it and stuck his head in , asking : ‘ Is it all right for coffee now , sir ? ’ |
| 18 | Other firms have much more of a consulting bias , in particular Egon Zehnder and Heidrick and Struggles , who see themselves predominantly as advisers rather than just recruitment specialists . |
| 19 | You 'll see , they 'll quarter the soldiers on us , but the king 's officers will be pushing on for London as fast as they can . ’ |
| 20 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 21 | In April the garden was a jungle of bluebells , bursting from under the trees in blue tides above your ankles , but by midsummer my grandmother had it tame again , fifty yards of earth between wooden fences bearing docile rows of hollyhock and sweet peas ; an ex-army rug was spread on the shaven lawn for the children to sit on for tea outdoors . |
| 22 | You can ca , and it carries on for miles around as well does n't it ? |
| 23 | Somehow , the wonderful aroma lingered on for days after . |
| 24 | The Strangeways riot , which went on for days longer than necessary because of squabbling between the Home Office prison department and the prison governor . |
| 25 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 26 | Now the story of Britain 's biggest-ever robbery — and the massive money laundering operation that went on for months afterwards — will be told tomorrow night in ITV 's £2 million drama Fool 's Gold ( 9.05pm ) . |
| 27 | They 've dearly gone on for years not knowing , let alone tonsillectomies , what |
| 28 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 29 | We were there in early December , and the work carried on after dark very often , lit only by the exterior lights of the melin , which were scarcely adequate illumination . |
| 30 | It was a little after noon when Katherine Lundy awoke , her head pounding , her mouth foul . |