Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 2 | But still easy enough to get it just a tiny bit wrong . |
| 3 | You just lay it over a little bit more , it slides and it scrubs off that much more speed . ’ |
| 4 | But his small rebellion did not bring him even a modest reward . |
| 5 | For reasons best known to himself Halzman , the senior sonar operator , preferred not to discuss it over an open line . |
| 6 | I 've just had one just a little while back |
| 7 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 8 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 9 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 10 | Well we 'll just have it up a little bit else you ca n't hear what they 're saying . |
| 11 | The poser being , of course , that she could not tell him either the true reason she was here , or even who she really was . |
| 12 | So even the inflationary model does not tell us why the initial configuration was not such as to produce something very different from what we observe . |
| 13 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 14 | I 'm just rubbing it out a little bit to give me a bit more space |
| 15 | I 'll just put it back a little bit there . |
| 16 | The scanning expert said : ‘ The easiest way to do that would be to enhance the quality of the original recording then just play it down an ordinary phone to a mobile phone in an area where the signal was strong . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a chance to understand why women are not making it up the professional or corporate ladder , ’ Ms Gompels added , ‘ which does seem to be a waste of such a valuable resource . ’ |
| 18 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 19 | If the client can not afford it then the sensible way to proceed would be to continue to press the insurers to form a view on liability . |
| 20 | In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket . |
| 21 | ‘ Nice car , ’ said Jimmy , wiping the condensation from his patch of window , but still giving himself only a blurred view . |
| 22 | When Maire Carroll 's mother said thoughtfully to Eve , ‘ Do you know I always ask myself why a sensible woman like Mother Francis would let you out on the street looking like Little Orphan Annie , ’ Benny 's brow darkened . |
| 23 | They also show them clearly the massive benefits enjoyed by employers and the costs which they are carrying . |
| 24 | If you are uncertain of the type of frame you want to use , or even of the very important role it plays in setting off the finished picture , browsing through the photographs in this book should give you a good idea of the tremendous versatility of frames , and also show you how the correct frame will focus the eye on the design itself , as well as balance all its elements . |
| 25 | If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased . |
| 26 | As an outsider , probably being the only Englishman in the quarries , you know I I think they were surprised , the fact that it was a local family , I think that 's what really rubbed them up the wrong way . |
| 27 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 28 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 29 | I had promised him that I would look her up , convey his admiring regards , and perhaps even bring him back a signed photograph of Miss Dragonette . |
| 30 | They ca n't expect you home every single night . ’ |