Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I even join up some , I mean there 's lots of words I do |
| 2 | Alistair said , ‘ And then you want me quickly to buy as many publicly held shares as possible . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know you only put so many down ca n't you ? |
| 4 | Portfolio investment had low visibility in the sense that it was very difficult for the general population to discover who actually owned how much of the resources and enterprises in their countries . |
| 5 | I think possibly it needs something just to break up this , sort of , the lines , you just got those bands of waves going across there . |
| 6 | It was tearing her apart to know how much he must love the pale , blank-eyed girl . |
| 7 | It helped her not to think too much . |
| 8 | They helped her not to think too much . |
| 9 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 10 | We would usually expect a book such as Suckers to sell around 1,500 copies , but we now expect it so sell substantially more than that . ’ |
| 11 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 12 | I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook . |
| 13 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 14 | let me just get back that was abhorrent as a word w has already been used and er should be used again by what you said , you saw s somebody being raped by two soldiers . |
| 15 | Let me therefore mention briefly some further dimensions of the subject . |
| 16 | This will give me better control over any fish I may hook , for they will no doubt try to charge into the lilies on either side of the swim . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't bring you here to open up all the old wounds again , ’ he growled at last . |
| 18 | I told you not to come down those blasted stairs on your own . ’ |
| 19 | So , on the first day of brushing we just brush as much as the horse will tolerate . |
| 20 | I 've given him an anti-tetanus injection and told him not to shave over those scratches for the next few days . ’ |
| 21 | Let us instead wonder how this latest episode could have turned so sour , given the wonderful international spirit which distinguishes the male world of cricket . |
| 22 | Let us not attach too much weight to it , because the overall response rate from the 18 district health authorities surveyed was 15 per cent . |
| 23 | Well , let us not linger over these human paradoxes . |
| 24 | Having entered this discussion concerning the sonar world from a consideration of the different visual fields of animals , let us again pick up those threads . |
| 25 | I do n't think you quite realise how much money 's being bet on plainsong . |
| 26 | Flap limit is 91 knots , and pumping them down requires rather more muscle than retraction . |
| 27 | To answer this correctly you need to analyse the tasks that face you currently to decide how many of them can be handed on immediately , or later with careful preparation . |
| 28 | Well , I mean we just said well that 's , you know , an expensive place for a holiday by the sound of it , but erm we had n't got into any details . |
| 29 | I said tell them not to bring too many cakes |
| 30 | You know you always talk too much when you 've got over a bad turn . ’ |