Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of the problems is they had a break in and had quite a lot of gear stolen , and that 's why they want a concrete roof , so they ca n't er get in through the roof . |
| 2 | Does he come down and visit quite a lot ? |
| 3 | Wednesday must have wished he had , the way Atkinson chested down and volleyed home a 20th-minute clearance , then spun brilliantly on a Neal Cox through ball to score a second after 67 . |
| 4 | He had every motive to leave town , plenty of opportunity to do so and paid only a relatively small price . |
| 5 | This view argued that section 7 was meant as an accounting section only and contained only a prohibition against annual accumulation deficits . |
| 6 | 1 A group of words frequently found together and producing collectively a meaning not apparent from the meaning of each component part of the group ( Ridout and Clarke 1970 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Probably the most important thing was being able to bring together and keep together a strong collection of people at all levels . |
| 8 | ‘ We defended badly and threw away a game we should have won 3–0 , ’ he said angrily . |
| 9 | ‘ In my wildest dreams the most I expected was to come on and get maybe a quarter of an hour . |
| 10 | Spatial boundaries may vary in their openness , the degree to which they permit outsiders to inspect the phenomenon in question , to find out what goes on and to gain thereby a knowledge of it and a competence in dealing with it . |
| 11 | As the population grew land rents soared , multiplying sixfold between Emancipation and the turn of the century , thereby enabling the nobility to cream off and fritter away a huge surplus from peasant labour . |
| 12 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 13 | WHAT : Visits may be weekly or fortnightly and last about an hour , on a one-to-one basis in the prisoner 's cell ; all conversations are confidential . |
| 14 | We also need a large membership to further and strengthen already a very effective lobby within government , Europe and the sport . |
| 15 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
| 16 | I looked up and saw only an outline where he was sitting . |
| 17 | The irony is that the Labour government has set up and funded handsomely a Royal Commission on Social Policy which will make its report at the end of 1988 . |
| 18 | Then I 'm going to take another triangular bandage and I 'm going to open it up and make just a little fold , this is going to go on her forehead and that little fold just helps with keeping it firm and stopping the bandage slip , now , just put it around the forehead like that , okay ? |
| 19 | Now on that point , for access someone now needs to pick up and write effectively a simple this is how we project planning on access . |
| 20 | ‘ Ach , to the devil with all MacIans ! ’ he grunted in pain and satisfaction , tugging it out and knocking aside a spear left-handed . |
| 21 | This done , she whipped up a piece of tape , which she tied some inches from the bottom ; then , while still holding on to the hair with one hand , her other hand shot out and pulled open a drawer from which she grabbed a pair of large scissors . |
| 22 | But erm , I woul what , erm , I also , the Hotel , we bought that the same way , they were selling that back and making quite a fair bit of profit , investing the money in arable land . |
| 23 | But I would suggest that part of sustaining the conditions for women working today and ensuring both a livelihood and acknowledgement through publication , or preservation in museums and galleries , is a radical rewriting of the existing stories of art . |
| 24 | " In Salvation Army meetings Africans do jump around and dance quite a bit . " |
| 25 | He made his debut five years ago and collected just a handful of caps before stringing a four-match run together at the end of last season . |
| 26 | One arrived in the Shetlands two or three years ago and caused quite a stir . ’ |
| 27 | Fen moved on abruptly and threw open a door . |
| 28 | Every trip to the door was an expedition and it was acutely exasperating to arrive there and see only a little figure in the distance dancing about and grimacing at me . |
| 29 | The Tory nightmare ought to be that Labour revamps itself yet again and becomes truly a centrist democrat party , committed to sound money , tight budgets , and moderate taxation . |
| 30 | I did n't explain why and took instead a tartan scarf — to be Rob Roy , I said , but actually to conceal my lack of proper neckwear . |