Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | Erm then it goes on about quite a bit of this Erm perception and decoding of the speech style er talking about er Martin and Giles . |
| 3 | Right about now a tactful change of subject seemed in order . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the negotiations between the three publishers jostling for position went on for over a year without reaching a conclusion : ‘ It was very difficult to find common ground and make sure that everyone had their fair share . ’ |
| 5 | The war went on for over a thousand years . |
| 6 | I 've got ta try hand it on for over a year then I went to live again . |
| 7 | A major Cabinet dispute rumbled on for nearly a year . |
| 8 | I think I need to put the immersion on for just a little while . |
| 9 | That went on for quite a long time |
| 10 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 11 | But we kept this on for quite a number of years . |
| 12 | This went on for quite a while before it spoke again . |
| 13 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 14 | Efforts to find a suitable site for the Vintage & Rotary Wing Collection , with workshops in Stoke-on-Trent , have been going on for quite a while , but the reaction has always been negative — we even had the comment that ‘ We do n't want an aircraft scrapyard here ! ’ |
| 15 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 16 | oh I 've had a bit of a day or erm ooh , whatever it is , and erm I said to myself I am making allowances for being tired and getting , getting on a bit , you know , and that went on for quite a while actually until I said to myself I 'm making up allowances you know , I 'm |
| 17 | The power struggle went on for about a minute , then the Archon sat down . |
| 18 | I think it was probably a ring , that sort of like went on for about a minute or so , |
| 19 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 20 | Leave on for about an hour , then shampoo thoroughly . |
| 21 | The fight went on for about an hour . |
| 22 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 23 | The good thing about it was , it was only on for about an hour . |
| 24 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 25 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |
| 26 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |
| 27 | Only from ‘ position A ’ do they present a target large enough for even a short iron . |
| 28 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 29 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 30 | If the music should go on past 10 o'clock for even a minute or two , Muriel is out and about . |