Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is directed against an opponent it ceases to be self-suffering and becomes instead a form of coercion , which is an aspect of violence , and as such unacceptable . |
| 2 | The approach to the senior staff of a Company has to be very cautious when putting forward a policy for alcoholism , drug addiction or other forms of addictive disease in the work-place . |
| 3 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 4 | She gets very down and depressed and rings here a lot . |
| 5 | ‘ Leave that and come here a moment . ’ |
| 6 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 7 | But also you can get , you know you , you sometimes you can fall lucky and get quite a lot of prices from cold calling as much as reviewing this one little , renewing every , every six weeks and trying to think of something to say that you have n't said before , like I had n't told you or Pete , you know , things like that . |
| 8 | I knew when people were married and slept together a baby usually followed , but this did n't enlighten me about the facts of life . |
| 9 | Joseph , bare-footed and wearing just a shirt and blanket , had led a charge across the river to rescue the horses . |
| 10 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | country carrier , a ‘ lumbering , slow , honest ’ fellow and devoted husband of the much younger Mary ( called Dot ) , who is very domesticated but has also a capacity for managing other people 's affairs ; to wit , those of Edward Plummer and May Fielding , who , but for Dot 's secret intervention , would have married the disagreeable Tackleton . |
| 12 | Yeah I know he took fucking and drank quite a lot as well and he was well buggered . |
| 13 | Laud , who was Visitor of All Souls College , Oxford , had him made a Fellow there , overruling the objections of the Warden of the College , Gilbert Sheldon , that he was disqualified by being too young and held only a degree from Cambridge . |
| 14 | Shamus was thinner and looked quite a lot older . |
| 15 | Much to our confusion , the entire boat crew is Polish and speak scarcely a word of English . |
| 16 | The instrument is self-standing and requires only a mains connection . |