Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I doubt whether she 's been properly taught on the subject quite frankly . |
| 2 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 3 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 4 | This lack of Bolshevik militancy ( and the reluctance to comply with Moscow 's directives ) was particularly galling for the Comintern since , as one of its own documents acknowledged , ‘ the Chilean Communist party is the one with the most influence amongst the masses out of all the South American Communist parties ’ . |
| 5 | Share prices showed little change throughout the day however and the FT-SE 100-Share Index closed just 1.0 down on the day at 2,817.0 , with just under 593 million shares changing hands . |
| 6 | Athelstan agreed ; the landlord of the Piebald Horse was a one-armed , reformed sea pirate who had confidentially explained to the friar how he would love to go to church but the smell of incense always made him feel ill . |
| 7 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 8 | Considerable pressure to conform exists within the lesbian feminist communities , and those of us who conspicuously deviate from the norm either get stared at or are ignored . |
| 9 | My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating . |
| 10 | These are widely considered in the literature already mentioned above . |
| 11 | Even so , now that Alain was there she felt safe enough to go with the man anyhow . |
| 12 | a rectangular piece of crêpe paper large enough to go around the tube once and have about 10cm to spare at each end |
| 13 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 14 | But New Zealand farmers could not be better placed for the day when ( if ) other rich countries lower barriers to food imports and abolish farm subsidies . |
| 15 | It 's laughable , afraid of a storm but brave enough to wait in the dark down by the river and bash your friend over the head . |
| 16 | A problem may obviously arise for the builder where the nominated supplier makes deliveries late in the month and the relevant invoices are not available at the date of the valuation . |
| 17 | She cut through the heady memories and concentrated her mind on what Steve was saying while she watched a superb glossy white yacht coming in to berth at the jetty not fifty metres from the window of the restaurant . |
| 18 | Big stars and a Father Christmas and reindeer and it 's all so bright just hanging over my head and stretching all down the road like a tunnel of hot colour all hanging in the sky so beautiful and magic . |
| 19 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 20 | According to those at the vigil , the police only checked on the hose twice before the massacre occurred at 4am . |
| 21 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 22 | Sometimes , of course , you do n't have much say in the matter anyway . |
| 23 | In fact , most people in public relations agencies are not highly educated in the fields most likely to be of importance to them in their work . |
| 24 | Improvements at existing establishments have also been curtailed and will be necessarily confined in the years ahead to the renewal of essential services and repairs to enable establishments to continue in full operation . |
| 25 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 26 | The memory of this tragic story has been kept alive throughout the centuries and continues to be by the occasional appearance of The Green Lady — a ghost said to cross the road from Thorpe Hall only to disappear into the trees opposite . |
| 27 | The key function none the less lies in the drawing up of the legislation ; deciding what should go into a bill and what should be omitted , and how the proposals should be drafted . |
| 28 | An early oval fort of pre-Roman times with a later broch in one corner , perhaps added by the Votadini even though they were supposed to be collaborators with the Roman occupiers . |
| 29 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |
| 30 | The calculation of depreciation for tax purposes is governed by the tax authority 's rules and is not necessarily related to the amounts actually charged in the business accounts . |