Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it . |
| 2 | Driven on by the desire to escape from the hardship of his peasant origins , Pierre Nizan pushed himself ever forward in a process of continual self advancement . |
| 3 | I feel very happy about my form and technique , very content , ’ he adds , having learnt from a poor tour of Australia the winter before last to adapt his technique and not commit himself too soon to a stroke . |
| 4 | He had only met them once briefly at a party , but they remembered him effusively . |
| 5 | Though associated to a certain extent with the advent of behaviourism in the study of politics ( because of its positivist claims to scientific status ) , elitism actually lends itself easily either to a concentration on institutional or organisational identifications of power , as in the traditional study of politics , or to a concern with socio-political cleavages and integrative factors more associated with political sociology than with political science . |
| 6 | There was an overwhelming drive to win the war : Britain was not the aggressor and the country could think of itself once more as a nation with a mission . |
| 7 | When , in a voice that is neither , he sings ‘ My arms were sure and strong ’ , a glance at his thin arms and meagre frame brings you dangerously close to a belly-laugh . ’ |
| 8 | Was she any closer to a solution , to finding out why her husband had died ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well … say if someone serves you fairly often in a shop , you recognize them when you 're in the shop , but if you meet them somewhere quite different , like at the races , you ca n't remember who they are . ’ |
| 10 | The linking of sexual enjoyment with social status also proved a golden formula for Hugh Hefner , who had failed as a cartoonist and copy-writer on Esquire in Chicago and was doing none too well as a promoter of a magazine called Children 's Activities . |
| 11 | We timed the ride well because just as we cycled back into Fishguard the sky darkened and yet another downpour drove us none too reluctantly into a tearoom . |
| 12 | And it makes you very hard as a person . |
| 13 | We could borrow one easily enough from a lifting vessel or salvage tug but the chances are high that he 'd know nothing about explosives . |
| 14 | A word is not a category at all in the sense used : since a text may be decomposed entirely into a sequence of words , there is no linguistic sense in which one could choose to use something else instead of a word . |
| 15 | You could be lucky and pick up a good one very cheaply at a sale of farming equipment . |
| 16 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 17 | single , single you out for attention she say erm , Miss Wax who likes to think of herself now principally as a writer , the comic talents of this calendar who needs laxative . |
| 18 | When placing waterlilies in the pool , it is essential to situate them well away from a fountain or waterfall and in a really sunny position , for they are intolerant of shade or turbulent water . |
| 19 | ‘ You have done without me well enough for a year , and so you can now . ’ |
| 20 | When I said I did not have the sum he drew me even further into a corner . |
| 21 | I call her so only as a courtesy . ’ |
| 22 | Like Kev says I rate him highly both as a defender and a motivator . |
| 23 | She thought of the way Guy had left her just now without a word of reassurance or explanation . |
| 24 | Some , like Robert Fishlock of Thistleton , were taxed on wages ; perhaps he was somebody 's chief servant , and in any case the muster described him more realistically as a labourer and valued his goods at 30s . |
| 25 | Heaven knew , she 'd had the lessons drummed into her often enough as a child . |
| 26 | The tale he told journalist Gerard Garrett was that Brando would n't hit him hard enough in a scene for it to look real . |
| 27 | Raising a hand , Vitor clasped her chin in his long fingers and held her almost fiercely for a moment . |
| 28 | In fact , I used to see him quite regularly as a boy friend . |
| 29 | Much to his surprise she chatted to him quite amicably for a change . |
| 30 | When he finally looked back , and saw that Pie'oh'pah had gone , he pulled the sheet up around him like a toga , concealing himself from the absence in the room , which stared back at him too much like a reflection for his peace of mind . |