Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few people in the West knew or cared very much if they did . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't know that anyone was killed or injured near there so there should n't be anyone haunting it . ’ |
| 3 | She was , in terms of the law , the better witness , did not rail or curse as wildly as her opponent and rival — the widow , at one point , fell to the ground in convulsions , twitching and flailing . |
| 4 | During the study the subject was allowed to sit up , or walk around briefly if they wished every 60 minutes . |
| 5 | If their giro did n't come , erm the only way of of contacting D H S S , was either to go down , or to walk all round until they could find a telephone to do it . |
| 6 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 7 | She enjoyed attending to the whitewashed chapel where compulsory prayers were conducted three times a day and did not feel ill-used when Mrs Prynn chastised her with a whip for letting slip a blasphemy or lying abed longer than she ought . |
| 8 | Ninez saw no reason to complain or criticise so long as we marched fast enough . |
| 9 | Actually Pickerage and I have a relationship that goes much deeper than your grubby little mind could encompass , Quigly . ’ |
| 10 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 11 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 12 | And I have no doubt that they have set that cause back further than they ever know . ’ |
| 13 | That one you 've got there — Cotton Town — that came out just before I got called up . |
| 14 | Our mothers are cousins , and there was something that happened way back when they were children — my mother saved David 's mother 's life , or something . |
| 15 | She looked even more head-mistressy than usual , a caricature , with a long black gown and a mortarboard that pressed down hard till it flattened the top of her head . |
| 16 | Now the squad that worked down there when anybody left there was nobody would take their place . |
| 17 | In quite outrageously comic and very skilful sequences of movement , mime and clowning , they attempt courtship , and in a shower of champagne that misses more often than it hits the glass , approach the great unknown of the wedding night . |
| 18 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 19 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 20 | But I have also come to realise that standing as still as you must while waiting for your chance to come on a frosty day is not exactly the height of pleasure . |
| 21 | Of all the possible goal conflicts , the two that arise most frequently when we interview managers are : |
| 22 | It was in motion , a carousel of two-seater chairs that spun unbelievably fast whilst it bobbed up and down on its rollers . |
| 23 | I could never have expressed that wish so long as my father was alive , for I had been trained to think that such sentiments would hurt him . |
| 24 | It has two round firebowls with grills that tuck neatly inside when you fold the barbecue up and it has removable legs for easy storage . |
| 25 | ‘ The companies should be warned of the falling guillotine and urged to produce and ship as fast as they can . ’ |
| 26 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 27 | But her pouch has a muscle around its mouth which contracts like a draw-string and shuts so tightly when she goes into the water that her young are in no danger of drowning . |
| 28 | Like most of my fellow white South Africans in the early days of contention , I did n't realise at the time that people like Peter Hian and Hassan Howa were looking further than we were , and seeing further ahead than our own claustrophobic horizons . |
| 29 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 30 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |