Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 2 | One of the frustrations of being in opposition for so long to what is , in effect , a minority Government is having to watch this country go on for such a long time without any energy policy . |
| 3 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |
| 4 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 5 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 6 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 7 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 8 | Cameron raked on for half an hour , making loose heaps up the middle of the field . |
| 9 | The thing went on for half an hour at least . |
| 10 | If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour — |
| 11 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 12 | Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off . |
| 13 | But you 've got ta have it on for half an hour have n't we Scott ? |
| 14 | The Golden Girls on for half an hour . |
| 15 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 16 | I have already said that a 24-h interval is not enough for such a loss to be seen . |
| 17 | Only through such a position of critical self-evaluation can the restricted epistemological validity of one 's position , and its possible ideological strains , be recognised for what it is . |
| 18 | Only through such an accidental , miraculous chance could anyone expect to shake off the yoke of grimly limited prospects . |
| 19 | They told me not to bother doing the premises up since it was only for such a short time . |
| 20 | If it is accepted , as I believe it should be accepted , that certiorari goes not only for such an excess or abuse of power but also for a breach of the rules of natural justice there is even less reason in principle for excluding other established grounds . |
| 21 | Only for half an hour . ’ |
| 22 | A first attempt has now been made in the Criminal Justice Act 1991 to remedy this omission ( see below ) , but the fact that sentencers have had to wait so long for such a lead is evidence of a serious weakness in the self-regulatory capacity of the Court of Appeal itself . |
| 23 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 24 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 25 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 26 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 27 | Why do n't you go and lie down for half an hour ? |
| 28 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 29 | He wondered anew that the great and glorious power of life could flow so fiercely and endlessly through such a shrivelled and unbeautiful fountainhead . |
| 30 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |