Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brutus starts off this passage with a rhetorical question , and then goes on to explain why he killed Caesar , including all Caesar 's good aspects . |
| 2 | It then goes on to describe how he joined the Roux brothers in London and finally opened his own restaurant in Chelsea . |
| 3 | Protected by their enormous allowances and comfortable working conditions , they feel free to carry on behaving how they wish . |
| 4 | ‘ He got so worked up he had to ask to use the toilet . |
| 5 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 6 | Another commando raid that summer was mounted by 12 Commando ; 16 men led by 2nd Lieutenant Pinkney landing near Ambleteuse where they made a general reconnaissance returning safely to England although a stoker on the naval craft was killed by enemy action , probably during the withdrawal . |
| 7 | Well it 's it all adds up do n't it like ? |
| 8 | So Edward had come back to see how she had got on . |
| 9 | In short , how we think about the way in which psychological processes , like visual perception , are carried out determines how we study the visual parts of the brain . |
| 10 | Novell Inc has now announced how it intends to organise the Novell Network Registry . |
| 11 | Coun Tomlinson , chairman of the social services committee , said : ‘ The Government has now announced how it intends to allocate funds for the next four years . |
| 12 | and I say well come on I said you can you can smile you know . |
| 13 | As I say I do n't want to promise you something and and then and then at the end you say well hang on we did n't look at that because that 's not within the agenda of of these two days . |
| 14 | If it has n't arrived yet we wait . |
| 15 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 16 | you know she has n't worked so she thinks that , you know , save her having to get up early in the morning , go and do the fire |
| 17 | Well she says Michael has n't rung so she said I assume that he 's coming cos if he 's going to be late , if he 's anywhere reasonable |
| 18 | staying longer and she 's going to come here to tell well you know the reality ! |
| 19 | I just did n't know how to cope so I sent her out of the room . |
| 20 | In case mister police-y man decides to stop us and say why have n't you put your seat-y belt on Mrs M Mrs woman ? |
| 21 | In that sense , if my logic is okay so far , and it is the amendment to the use classes order which has significantly shifted how we regard employment development for planning , I wondered if the justification for the forty three per hectare , on the grounds that the Secretary of State imposed it , actually holds water , these days ? |
| 22 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 23 | You 'd better start then I suppose . |
| 24 | I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and |
| 25 | ‘ Well , perhaps we 'd better know how we stand . ’ |
| 26 | Have you written down did n't you write it in the in the margin ? |
| 27 | They would do better to rethink why they regulate banks at all . |
| 28 | costing us lately , we 're having to get these , I mean we have that on two in the morning to get this room warmed up do n't we have to put it down to one |
| 29 | See I do n't know where he got it from , because he did n't give us th questions out of this book . |
| 30 | so he went back and he says er , oh he says er he says oh dear like , he says well carry on he says I 'll have to take the door off , so he says can you give a hand to hold it , cos he had to cut er this er like and all grown at the bottom of the door you know with |