Example sentences of "a [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's a rather sort of formal blouse . |
| 2 | As she watched , it formed itself into a menacingly parody of his smile . |
| 3 | So , a bigger church was needed to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers , and a most un-lamb like argument over whether they should extend or move to a new site raged for six years . |
| 4 | All that you require is a separate breeding tank , facilities to provide live foods of a small-enough size for the new fry , some high protein fry foods , various nets , egg disinfectants , and sundries . |
| 5 | and wild beyond er , that one boy who was and had n't been used to that sort of thing , for his father had kept a small cook stock his companion that unless he has another basin of gruel he was afraid he might , he might some night happen to eat , eat the boy he slept next to , who happened to be a weakly youth of tender eight and they , and they impeccably believed him . |
| 6 | His landlady , Penny ( a slatternly version of Odysseus 's Penelope ) , treats Sya as a substitute for her missing soldier-husband , while her lodger Burt , a footloose unemployed actor , yearns to swap his decadent native land for the iron certainties of Iran . |
| 7 | Their first set was all up-tempo , driving stuff , from Sonny Rollins 's Tenor Madness to Harold Arlen 's My Shining Hour , and they acquitted themselves well enough alongside the visitor , although the rhythm section were a little at-odds with each other stylistically . |
| 8 | One month later I did visit the Embassy , a little Russia behind a wrought-iron gate and walls once used to confine Cossack prisoners . |
| 9 | The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same . |
| 10 | Lewis Offshore has a fabricated yard for the oil industry at Arnish Point , a little south of the town . |
| 11 | Stephen made his way down and crossed the Hilderbridge road a little south of Chesney . |
| 12 | He explained that he was training to be a teacher in Bechar , a large town a little north of where I had begun walking . |
| 13 | The Second Austro-Hungarian Army ( Bö-Ermolli ) held the front between Dubno and a point a little north of the Tarnopol-Lemberg railway . |
| 14 | There are some 300 such places in south-west France , the finest of them a little north of here , in Gas cony , and they were built largely to a rectangular pattern of intersecting streets with a sometimes very generous town square in the centre . |
| 15 | They founded a little Punjab through whose gates they left in the morning and returned in the evening , glad to be back among their own kind . |
| 16 | Perhaps if you promise pictures to several friends and relations , that will help you to be a little more.sparing with your collection of pressed material ! |
| 17 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 18 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 19 | The best known was Whittingham House , twenty miles from Edinburgh , described by an admiring nonresident as ‘ a little Jerusalem in Britain 's green and pleasant land ’ . |
| 20 | Wisps of distant music , the creak of machinery , enigmatic shiftings of light , a spasm of slow-motion : first you realise that this house ( in Dermot Hayes 's cunningly flimsy set , a little Calvary of stunted , corroding masts ) is haunted , then that it is doomed ; and then , the real turn of the screw , that these people may really want to be doomed . |
| 21 | Abetting him in this is his childhood friend Yohei , a woebegone young husband much harassed by a matronly dragon of a mother-in-law . |
| 22 | Increasing excise duties on alcohol and tobacco have traditionally allowed Chancellors of the Exchequer to raise revenues with a matronly wag of the finger that suggests they are trying to do us a favour . |
| 23 | Day Two : Whilst you peacefully slumber , your cruise begins with a 5.00am departure for Rüdesheim . |
| 24 | Based on the principles of aromatherapy , this is a gently blend of essential aromatic oils and herbs , all chosen for their antibacterial and antiseptic properties . |
| 25 | The cellular business remains complex and uncertain and investors should continue to view it with a healthly degree of caution . |
| 26 | Both of these veteran airliners gave a spritely performance despite their age , proving that there are no bounds to what can be preserved in flying condition in the USA . |
| 27 | Day one in Delhi should have been a gentle , relaxed affair lounging around the hotel pool recovering from jetlag after a 5am arrival from London . |
| 28 | The speculation follows a mildly tongue in cheek piece by Bill Brooker in the journal of the Scottish Mountaineering Club — the august guardians of Munro 's Tables . |
| 29 | It 's only the knowledge that Television , Patti Smith , Blondie and The Ramones used the place as their Bull & Gates in the olden days that flushes you with a tingly sense of excitement when you find out that the toilet is a damp patch on the floor . |
| 30 | GH Fashion Editor Caroline Baker compiled a go-anywhere wardrobe for Clarissa , based around two essentials : a polo-neck black body leotard and slimming black ski pants ( Clarissa is a size 14 ) . |