Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 2 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 3 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 5 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 6 | The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution . |
| 7 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 8 | Opposite middle : This wild boar is what the factory pig instinctively thinks it still is . |
| 9 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 10 | In his treatise I Will Pray with the Spirit he describes that Church 's Book of Common Prayer as ‘ a mere human invention , which God is so far from owning it that He expressly forbids it , in His most Holy and Blessed Word ’ . |
| 11 | The book of Leviticus expressly forbids it . |
| 12 | ‘ And the man who eventually wins you will be the luckiest man in the world , I think , ’ said Carlo . |
| 13 | But the answer is , each one secretly thinks he 's the best . |
| 14 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 15 | The insects either come to a sticky end ; lured by sugary solution onto a sundew which then slowly digests them , or they get the chop in more dramatic fashion after landing in the jaws of a Venus flytrap . |
| 16 | It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up . |
| 17 | Mr MacSharry , speaking at Dublin airport on his return from Brussels , said : ‘ My only interest is to ensure we get this agreement the world economy badly needs it . ’ |
| 18 | Pete was in her form at school and whenever she looked at him little quivers she could not identify started deep inside her . |
| 19 | Rarely has it ever been recorded that a fatality has occurred from snakebite during the festival ; the Cobras appear to know that they are being revered . |
| 20 | Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms . |
| 21 | Only very rarely has it been reported in the lung . |
| 22 | Too rarely has it involved the specialist in the secondary school in regular discussion with primary colleagues . |
| 23 | By the shortest sea route probably , because the prospect of flying in an aeroplane rather daunts me . |
| 24 | A later article will argue that this lowering of costs does not eliminate them altogether but rather transfers them . |
| 25 | This motion within the crystal lattice , called premelting , increases the entropy of the crystal and effectively stabilizes it . |
| 26 | John McEnroe tried to take out a copyright on it , Becker 's got more than a bit and Lendl 's goes missing when he most needs it . |
| 27 | In his concluding essay , Urwick wrote : The club can catch him , but can not discipline him , the Boys ' Brigade can discipline him to a small extent , but can not catch or keep him when he most needs it ; the voluntary evening school can do neither . |
| 28 | He states that ideology consists of the beliefs and values of a ruling group which ‘ obscures the real condition of society both to itself and others and thereby stabilizes it ’ . |
| 29 | They do not know what sort of sacrifice most propitiates them , so that they might be wasting their sacrifices . |
| 30 | What right has he in me , but such as a thief may plead to stolen goods ? |