Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came along here the other day and I thought oh heck , if you were living in actually |
| 2 | I set out early the next morning and travelled all day . |
| 3 | It is dreadful I walked along there the other day . |
| 4 | Of course , I regret those job losses , but the hon. Gentleman has surely seen the article in The Independent on Sunday a week last Sunday which spelt out clearly the devastating consequences on jobs in the retail trade of his proposal for a national statutory minimum wage . |
| 5 | The latest variants on royalty structures use branches of a Dutch company , which operate in much the same way as finance branches , and rely on exemptions to avoid tax at full rates in the Netherlands . |
| 6 | Provisional figures for the first part of 1990 suggested a lack of progress in combating inflation , which remained over twice the European average . |
| 7 | Besides , the causes of some 60% of birth defects have yet to be discovered : it can not be assumed that all of them travel down only the female line . |
| 8 | The pair of them teamed up again the following season when Moss also joined the German manufacturer . |
| 9 | ‘ You were spying when you came up here the other day , were n't you ? ’ said Sugden looking through the contents of my handbag . |
| 10 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 11 | George said that if she put in more the whole lot would be gone before the curtain rose on Act Two . |
| 12 | It is simply an area of mountain country full of pine trees with up tilted tips to their branches , of bushes , boulders , pasture and wild flowers ; and the longer you wander about there the more flowers you find , unassuming yet plentiful , in an incomparable variety , as well as exquisite fist-sized mushrooms , like polished stones . |
| 13 | Oh , they stayed just the same as they are today , yo you carried on just the same , only the difference in them now , race days years ago , the heath was shut at half past nine . |
| 14 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 15 | MPs who on the whole tend to be rather casual about going to meetings organised for their benefit by pressure groups tend to go to the nuclear forum , because it is always well-structured and organised , and because they can then say to constituents who work in either the nuclear industry or the nuclear supply industry that they have been , and still are , taking an interest in the decisions that affect those particular electors . |
| 16 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 17 | Here we proceeded in exactly the same way , dividing the activities between paired and whole group work . |
| 18 | This seemed a suitable area on which to work , and we proceeded in precisely the same way as before , with Sylvia imagining the situation under hypnosis and then going off to do her homework for however long was necessary . |
| 19 | Everything falling in exactly the same way is what is natural , not everything staying put the same way . |
| 20 | And they never actually see them walk round where the all the empty flats are as well . |
| 21 | But the funny thing is they fell in exactly the same way . |
| 22 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 23 | They made love a third time before falling into an exhaustion that was beyond pleasure , their naked bodies sprawled together , arms and legs tangled , and when they woke up late the next day Damian made love to her again until her eyes closed and she shuddered in hot delirium against him . |
| 24 | If these plants are kept in a laboratory , they act in exactly the same way . |
| 25 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 26 | They stand in much the same relation to the childhood memories from which they are derived as do some of the Baroque palaces of Rome to the ancient ruins whose pavements and columns have provided the material for more recent structures . |
| 27 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
| 28 | At the same time , cars were numbered in accordance with the time they set off so the thousands of spectators that lined the route could get some indication who was leading . |
| 29 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 30 | They operate in basically the same way , but VITC coding has to be recorded onto the tape ( of course without being visible in the picture ) , at the time of shooting or while being copied onto a second tape ; RCTC coding on the other hand can be carried out at any stage of the editing process , and so is the more flexible of the two systems . |