Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 2 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 3 | Okay , so they may ask you to use something which you have n't necessarily had to do before so that they 're really all that the examiner 's testing is that you 've got a little bit of nous , a little bit of savvy and with what you 've got available you can improvise a dressing or use the dressing in a sensible manner so that your casualty 's comfortable and you 're doing the best you can for them , okay ? |
| 4 | Parents may feel upset whatever the age of their teenage daughter , but those with younger daughters are obviously going to react more negatively than those with older teenagers . |
| 5 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 6 | The fourth boy , however , slipped and fell to his knees and was only beginning to scramble upright again when the fender caught his chest with a thud that shook the vehicle . |
| 7 | She should perhaps have noted more positively that Brahms labelled this as a plain Allegro , unlike the corresponding movement of No. 3 , which he marked Allegro maestoso . |
| 8 | Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered . |
| 9 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 10 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 11 | The critics were quick to recognise the anguish in the writing , but dismissed it as ‘ hopeless pessimism ’ or ‘ a shameful nightmare which one only wishes to forget as quickly and as completely as possible ’ . |
| 12 | A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful . |
| 13 | My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me . |
| 14 | He then said playing wise he does not want to play anywhere else but at Leeds for the rest of his career , said that Elland Rd was the best arena for a footballer bacuase the atmosphere is so special . |
| 15 | This means the aquarium will not need cleaning as often as a less densely planted one . |
| 16 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 17 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 18 | Once you have experienced and enjoyed the particular flavour of playing for your country in a cap international you just want to do so again and again . |
| 19 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 20 | This was something which the inhabitants were not going to overlook as lightly as Charles had done . |
| 21 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 22 | So you 've not got to live that long before you 're into profit . |
| 23 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 24 | Could you all just stop breathing now please till we get home ! |
| 25 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 26 | I do not have to go that far and I do not go that far . ’ |
| 27 | I do not have to go that far and I do not go that far … |
| 28 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 29 | She had hinted darkly that Wilson herself must be to blame , that she must have been weak , must not have written plain enough and as she had been instructed . |
| 30 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |