Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 2 | ‘ I got as far as unpacking my summer wear … ! ! ’ |
| 3 | I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm |
| 4 | I knew far better than to turn my head , but I had the feeling my old builder stayed squatting by the roadside . |
| 5 | Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
| 7 | Books of old photographs are always fascinating , and there are several examples to be found in the shop , including Thomas Begbie 's Edinburgh , a photographic portrait of the city in mid-Victorian times , and To see Oursels , a striking portrayal of a rural Scotland which has now all but disappeared , and which draws on the unrivalled collections of the National Museum of Scotland 's Ethnological Archive . |
| 8 | Alcester therefore resembles a minority of other small towns which lie beside rather than athwart main roads , such as Dorn ( p. 253 ) . |
| 9 | Men DO make passes at girls who wear glasses — which is probably why Cartier have named their new gold-plated frames ‘ Romance ’ and designed an invisible ‘ C ’ stamp on the lens which shows up only when breathed on … approx £310 . |
| 10 | ‘ The other mums are always talking about what their children eat and most of them seem as just as confused as I am . ’ |
| 11 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 12 | The last two examples , I 'm actually going to ask you to do tonight rather than keep you here this evening . |
| 13 | Typically , teen magazines like Smash Hits , were soon on the case and presented them as a ‘ new ’ band , although none went as far as dubbing them the customary , overnight success . |
| 14 | And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ? |
| 15 | She spoke up properly when questioned . |
| 16 | She had only once before raced at a distance beyond two miles , in the Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket in November 1905 , when she had won , hard held , by half a length from Bachelor 's Button . |
| 17 | And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions . |
| 18 | And this morning we got as far as did n't we ? |
| 19 | But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing . |
| 20 | ‘ I am determined that we build solidly rather than build fast . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 22 | In Gloucester in 1831 all three candidates adopted an antislavery stance as a result of being questioned , one going so far as to have ‘ cards in his constituent hats with ‘ No Slavery ’ printed up on them ’ . |
| 23 | Some of the delayed motorists were distinctly lacking in respect , one going as far as to say that if he were going to get buried he 'd have a bit more consideration for other road users . |
| 24 | One went so far as to describe her life as ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 25 | But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ? |
| 26 | We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation . |
| 27 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 28 | Sometimes , though , we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up . |
| 29 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 30 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |