Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated . |
| 2 | There 's a very interesting issue has just come up actually 'cause we 're having this fashion show . |
| 3 | But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest . |
| 4 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 5 | These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary . |
| 6 | The distribution of responsibilities between local , national , public and voluntary sectors has also become less rather than more clear , which reduces the possibilities of accountability . |
| 7 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 8 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 9 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 10 | Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers . |
| 11 | Vern said it looked like the owners were coming to use the boat again soon : we 'd better clear off quick before it was light in the morning , specially as it 'd be Saturday . |
| 12 | She 'd better go down quickly before he started to get suspicious . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'd better set off now before it gets dark , ’ he told the driver . |
| 14 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 15 | I think you 'd better get down now because you 're going to hurt yourself . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 18 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd just gone down there because er . |
| 20 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 21 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 22 | To make matters even more complicated , there are two quite distinct kinds of mood-change , for the cat 's pupils will become greatly enlarged not only when it sees something pleasant but also when it sees something terribly threatening . |
| 23 | That 's why I 've got more fans out there than any other British athlete . |
| 24 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 25 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 26 | Lastly , if tails become forked ( when closed ) through elongation of their outer feathers , lift initially increases more rapidly than drag ( as the spread tail tends toward the optimum triangular shape ) , so that aerodynamic costs are lower for long shallow forks than for simple tails . |
| 27 | The reasons most women offer for extramarital sex — boredom and a need for drama and excitement — ring fairly hollow as far as I am concerned . |
| 28 | Microsoft must foresee where the market is going , where and how to direct its effort — and do so better not just than lively young rivals eager to up-end it like IBM , but than powerful companies moving in from outside the industry . |
| 29 | Im usually pissed off enough as it is . |
| 30 | ‘ No , she only gives me money ter do the errands an' then I 'ave ter go back twice because I car n't carry them all in one go . |