Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 2 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 3 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're taking my friend here as far as Horsey . |
| 5 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 6 | She had allowed him to come too close , to penetrate her defences far too easily as it was this evening . |
| 7 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 8 | They should have had much better control and devised their computerisation rather more effectively than they did . ’ |
| 9 | Meredith pressed her thighs together as tightly as she could , summoning up all her resolve . |
| 10 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 11 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 12 | He made her work twice as hard as the others . |
| 13 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 14 | Hilton clearly attached great importance to this apostolate : he tells his nun that she will meet God in her visitors just as surely as in the solitude of her cell . |
| 15 | He responded by calling her darling rather more often than was natural . |
| 16 | He knew that he looked like an ox , but that counted for nothing ; an ox could drop in its tracks just as easily as anything else . |
| 17 | She feels her failure very sharply even though she wo n't admit it . ’ |
| 18 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 19 | In order to benefit from favourable international developments , indeed in order to avoid falling victim herself to the volatile diplomacy of the period , Russia had to mobilize her resources far more effectively than she had under Peter 's predecessors . |
| 20 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 21 | The elderly woman turned her head as far sideways as the basket strap permitted . |
| 22 | No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man . |
| 23 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 24 | Motor racing had featured on the periphery of her life as far back as she could remember . |
| 25 | Members leave their mallets here as often as not do they ? |
| 26 | She studied her hands again more intently while a pink glow crept over the back of her neck . |
| 27 | Their language , hardly even a bastard grandchild of Imperial Gothic , was salted with oaths , the whole intention being to drive their meddling malicious God and its minions as far away as possible . |
| 28 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 29 | Julius followed her , not saying anything but just watching her , until his intense gaze began to grate on her nerves even more badly than the approaching storm . |
| 30 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |