Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weissman carried on courageously with a complex but fascinating lecture on RNA splicing , ignoring the loud hubbub and intermittent squawks from his own microphone , and pausing often to wait out an eruption of roars and whistles from next door . |
| 2 | For winter camouflage I have an additional item , a sleeveless quilted shooting jacket which slips on rather like a bullet-proof vest . |
| 3 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 4 | when the business of the partnership can be carried on only at a loss ; |
| 5 | He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) . |
| 6 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | Which brings us on nicely to a discussion of pyroclastic rocks themselves . |
| 8 | I had a drink of water as my throat was hurting , picked up Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals and sat down thankfully in an easy chair . |
| 9 | One would therefore expect a system of massive objects to settle down eventually to a stationary state , because the energy in any movement would be carried away by the emission of gravitational waves . |
| 10 | Therefore if during this first shopping trip of your preparation phase you want to pop in somewhere for a drink and a snack ( assuming that this is fairly usual for you ) , go ahead and do it . |
| 11 | Only Mr Kenneth Baker , secretary of state for education , said promptly , ’ more money and put in successfully for a rise in the science-research budget . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 13 | But you 'll find them graced with looks which would complement a modern apartment or blend in self-confidently with a farmhouse kitchen . |
| 14 | After my divorce , we seemed to get along better for a while . |
| 15 | Agnes sat down gingerly on a worn green velvet wing chair . |
| 16 | In some places the eight-foot line runs along halfway up a hill , and if a valley floor is narrow , it can significantly double the supposed area of benefit . |
| 17 | ‘ The Sierra , despite being more roomy and having a 2.3-litre motor , gets along nicely on a lot less . |
| 18 | We sat down together at a café table and went through some of them together . |
| 19 | There is something quite atavistic about a group of people sitting down together to a good dinner . |
| 20 | Just sitting down together as a family to draft an agreement can encourage analysis and co-operation . |
| 21 | One law for the rich and another for the poor , as the two systems can be made to seem , are laid down together in a book which commemorates a desertion , on the author 's part , of the rich for the poor . |
| 22 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 23 | By 27 May , though , things had quietened down sufficiently for a daring ( or foolhardy ) party to charter a steamboat from Batavia ( now Djakarta ) and sail out to the islands to see what was going on . |
| 24 | So I 've put us all in together as a group entry — sorry , Rainbow , not you , bubbeleh , you 're under the age limit — and I have costumes for you three girls upstairs . ’ |
| 25 | Then out to his bed in a loft over the cowshed , leaving the family to draw in together in a cosy , alien-excluding unit around the flaming and hissing timber , to lie and smoke by the light of a candle and think o better days in the orphanage and wonder in unembittered fashion — for he had been happy there — about the mother who had abandoned him and the even shadowier lover who must have abandoned her . |
| 26 | Sitting down opposite without a word he picked up the glass and emptied the contents down his throat . |
| 27 | Often found to be needed in vigorous , robust , healthy , rugged people and in children : they come down suddenly with a violent illness , a raging fever etc . |
| 28 | Urquhart sauntered along thoughtfully for a moment , stopped and turned to face her . |
| 29 | As Cole records , it settled down finally into an agricultural colony of individually owned and worked farms . |
| 30 | If the oil film breaks down momentarily for a very short period of time that little bit of carbon that four percent carbon in the cast iron will actually stop the aluminium sticking to the cylinder . |