Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The counterpart to this is that they are naturally limited intellectually and so not actively encouraged to excel in academic and the more cerebral pursuits and , of course , they do not . |
| 2 | She was prickly and sharp with him , and only too obviously relieved to make her escape . |
| 3 | Air drying gives best results : hand them upside down somewhere warm , dry and not too well lit to avoid fading . |
| 4 | The cult of monarchy which they so strenuously and even sometimes grotesquely encouraged made very good political sense ; it was a visual demonstration of monarchy as in theory envisaged , and therefore a substantial basis for monarchy as in practice exercised . |
| 5 | In truth , however , Phil himself was finding Nancy Wiseman a little too effusive for his liking and — perversely , as it seemed — would have preferred sitting next to Janet Roscoe , up there at the front of the coach , as he listened to ( and indeed almost wholly managed to hear ) the end of Ashenden 's introduction to Bath : |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm dying , Doctor , ’ Anne Hammond put in quietly , and miraculously somehow even managed to smile . |
| 7 | A Kaolin glacier was an example of the last-named ( Lewis and Miller , 1955 ) but much more extensively used have been measurements using rainfall simulators especially in relation to erosion experiments , flumes , wave tanks and wind tunnels . |
| 8 | Billie 's Bounce for example ( ‘ The Charlie Parker Story ’ ) is heard in five separate though shamefully not chronologically ordered takes , including a suddenly interrupted ‘ short take ’ of 1:40 duration ! |