Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Well we 'll send them altogether the weekend hang on , bung it in . |
2 | Monsieur le Curé said the sooner we buried them properly the better , he 's not going to tell anyone . |
3 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
4 | ‘ More to follow ’ : I phoned them right a way ( and they agreed to come ) You must write it a gain ( and this time , get it right ) |
5 | unclear get to buy your own I , I er did n't have rubber boots , I had big leather boots up to me thigh , that 's what I bought and that leather then they did n't have nails in the shoes in the , in the bottom they had wooden pegs , so that the , your leather was held by wooden pegs and the and the leather at that time were the thigh boots , you could roll them right the way down , . |
6 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
7 | Robyn , perhaps you 'd like to help me clear the dishes , ’ he instructed , giving her a warning glance . |
8 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
9 | I 'm sorry , you have been subsidizing me rather a lot lately . ’ |
10 | Recently I have noticed my fiancé 's brother is showing me rather a lot of attention . |
11 | I often notice him looking at me and paying me rather a lot of compliments . |
12 | She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that . |
13 | ‘ Have n't you found me rather a good audience ? ’ |
14 | In a way this makes them all the more impressive . |
15 | But as well as having this comparatively obvious advantage , Althusser 's awareness of the radical implications of his claims makes them all the more interesting . |
16 | The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income . |
17 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
18 | Instead , he laughed aloud and beat them all the fiercer . |
19 | Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful . |
20 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
21 | Ladies and gentlemen , I 'm very grateful to Professor Eppell for his characteristically kind and generous remarks , and erm I accept them all the more readily because I know you will treat them with a healthy degree of scepticism . |
22 | I 'm serious about that , it grieves me greatly the possibility that he may not hear what the patch has to say . |
23 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
24 | Passing the township , both brakes jammed on , I slither and judder down the newly regravelled surface , hoping for something to pass and pick me up , but also marvelling at the open splendour of the valley scenery which surprises me afresh every time I look . |
25 | And naturally , because for me hitherto the world had held no woman . |
26 | In view of the central position of the egg and sperm cell in reproductive biology , we need to look at them in a little more detail . |
27 | But Europe 's governing body left them in no doubt they were wasting their time by replying : ‘ It 's just not possible . ’ |
28 | The reference to ‘ ancient and approved custom ’ might have tempted ingenious demur by the bishops , but Edward left them in no doubt where their best interest lay : ‘ know for certain that if you so act , we shall forcefully seize your baronies . ’ |
29 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
30 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |