Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Quite probably you simply did n't realize that peas and beans and sweetcorn are such valuable vegetables , and you will now continue to eat them rather more frequently because you like them anyway . |
2 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
3 | But United 's shortcomings … weakenesses are still all too obvious … a leaky defence let them down again just when it mattered most when the final whistle was minutes away as Redfearn hit the equaliser to make it one-all |
4 | One way to do this is to give them a hefty shove and hurl them together so fast that their mutual electrical repulsion can not resist , as in the Sun where the temperature at the centre is so great that the protons are highly agitated and occasionally collide at which point the energy-liberating fusion mechanisms take over . |
5 | If the system does n't come up with them much more convincingly than it is doing at present , then they will probably be found outside . |
6 | Right , so you fix them just as quickly as you can fix them , but if that takes nine months it takes nine months , that 's one of the views you can take on it . |
7 | ‘ Take me away as quickly as you can , ’ he said . |
8 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
9 | She dressed me just as finely as them , and I was sent to a very expensive school . |
10 | You can kill somebody much more easily than anything else . |
11 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
12 | If we say , There 's somebody suspicious knocking about the flats , or , There 's a person on such a walk doing something we think 's a little bit er mysterious , then they 'll sen they 'll send somebody round as quickly as they can . |
13 | You 'll see them talking to somebody else somewhere else and you 're serving this person . |
14 | There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination . |
15 | They did n't , they we , they have them more frequently now and they 're getting even more and more infrequent now for the rest of the year . |
16 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
17 | So when I pe when I sit , when I think oh right I 'll have a piss up session this Saturday and I see one of my friends getting absolutely slaughtered it puts me off straight away because I think oh stupid , what , what a waste . |
18 | ‘ No , your mother is right , you want to be with your friends on a day like this , and the best of luck to you , son , may it turn out for you just as well as you ever hoped . |
19 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
20 | Fred I am worried with all that money you wo n't lose your head , there are a lot of clever dishonest people ( she means women , he said ) about these days , I brought you up as well as I could and if you do wrong it 's the same as if I did . |
21 | I 've kept you up late enough as it is . ’ |
22 | Well I think we have to stop there for a little while because it 's nine o'clock , and I 've just got erm a few more pictures to show you later on so if we have a short break now , I think the coffee ladies are ready . |
23 | You do n't have to worry too much about money do you really so long as you can manage with it . |
24 | Express trains come rushing down on you far more quickly than you imagine and more than one hundred people are killed every year in the United Kingdom doing this . |
25 | And erm good , thank you very much indeed and I look forward to seeing you next week . |
26 | Are you bloody hard enough or what ? |
27 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |
28 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
29 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
30 | He managed somehow to get under my skin , tangle me up inside so that I did n't know if I was coming or going . |