Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That she has so kindly obliged me this evening , and on Twelfth Night of all nights causes me no small surprise . ’ |
| 2 | Benjamin ‘ Bibi ’ Netanyahu , the recently elected leader of the dispirited party , is concerned above all to maintain unity , and has not yet shown his own hand . |
| 3 | Steve Pyle has not only done us all a favour ; he has done you one , Mr Laing . |
| 4 | The area of site control is complicated by the fact that the partner or manager of the job has not only to control his own staff and their performance , but also has to ensure — on behalf of his client — that the work being done under his direction by third parties is also properly progressed . |
| 5 | This has had an effect on the JCT , which has not only revised its own forms , but is working hard to extend its range . |
| 6 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |
| 7 | Some of the material I have n't seen , of course , because the government has n't even shown me all of the material . |
| 8 | She 's had that , she 's had her revenge , it has n't actually caused you any grief , you 'll just have to make up some story for your mother . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
| 10 | They came in today to give us this talk about kind of er , kind of erm , money we 're gon na get , whatever today , you know , like they said about the Poll Tax |
| 11 | Each discipline may choose not only to put their own interpretation on the material they incorporate under a heading , but also choose to organize the material in a different way , e.g. classify according to the type of processing , rather than function . |
| 12 | She 'd almost certainly heard them all before . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been told once more to mind my own business . |
| 14 | But Mr Clinton , 46 , was yesterday taking no chances and set out on a final round-the-clock trek to nine states before heading home today to cast his own vote . |
| 15 | Er well it 's just all the char about thirteen fourteen charities are getting together just to sell their own goods , bric-à-brac and various other things . |
| 16 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's so much , as you say , and everyone else seems to them to be doing well enough to enjoy it all . |
| 18 | Two of the few consultants lost were Michel Carre and Georges Orban , who went on successfully to form their own firm , Carre Orban . |
| 19 | This is hard enough in our own lives but it is doubly hard in public work where it calls on people devoted to different ideals to work together in mutual acceptance , and that means not just tolerating one another but respecting and understanding what the other is talking about . |
| 20 | Frederica , who did not even make her own bed , acquired one or two odd skills . |
| 21 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 22 | We did not even have our own lavatories ; our employees had to go outside our part of the building to use communal facilities . |
| 23 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 24 | Jack reckoned he was known amongst his male friends of that era as the Great Seducer — his own words — but friend-for-life Robert Towne did not quite remember it that way . |
| 25 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 26 | The military did not always get its own way but it was in a strong position . |
| 27 | We do not even hold our own Ministers to account . |
| 28 | The implication of all this is not only that weak businesses do worse in absolute terms , but that they do not even realize their own potential . |
| 29 | This strangeness will very quickly pass in the same way as a capped tooth or new filling feels peculiar after a visit to the dentist yet , after a couple of days , we do not even notice it any more . |
| 30 | A feature of suburbia is that many people do not even know their own neighbours ; certainly not those across the way . |