Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |
| 2 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 3 | The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep . |
| 4 | Because the cake is covered in buttercream it will not keep so long as cakes made with fondant , so eat it fairly soon after it is made . |
| 5 | It was a moment before Carson was able to place the researcher 's voice — after all , he 'd only heard it once before but he said , ‘ Yes , I 'm alone . |
| 6 | Herta comes down to visit me as often as she can , which is not very often , because this is wartime , after all . |
| 7 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
| 8 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 9 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 10 | When I am fishing on my own I only weigh them straight away if they appear to be over 9lb , and leave the weighing until I pack in if they appear to be less . |
| 11 | The letters are arriving so thank you very much and please keep them coming . |
| 12 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 13 | If you allow the speed to build up you will rapidly get into a situation you can not cope with , so take it very steadily until you become more experienced and confident . |
| 14 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 15 | We just helped him as well as we could in the circumstances . |
| 16 | He dues not want it more earnestly than I do . |
| 17 | ‘ But I think he does not know you as well as I do . ’ |
| 18 | Just say it quietly so that the people can get the joke |
| 19 | and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent |
| 20 | For example , there 's a piece of cake in front of us and , and you know you just want it so badly and you just eat it , or even having sex , anything , I mean any desire that you have that you just follow . |
| 21 | These can lead to catastrophic failures if inspectors do not identify them either visually or by applying non-destructive testing techniques such as X-rays , eddy currents , and ultrasonic inspection . |
| 22 | Replacement adsorption pads cost around £5 for three and because of this expense , human nature being what it is , there is a tendency not to replace them as regularly as recommended . |
| 23 | ‘ In that case I will not keep you any longer than I can help . ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps he did not touch her very deeply but he did not shock her either , her body moving easily , without apprehension , beneath his ; her mind remaining open to the possibility of sensation , observing his pleasure with affection — glad that he should have it — yet wondering more and more frequently if a similar capacity for such joyful sensuality lay concealed somewhere within herself . |
| 25 | ‘ I already know you as well as I could ever want to . |
| 26 | But even the best brakes in the world will not stop you as quickly as hitting something … |
| 27 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 28 | His immediate concern is to get them to help themselves but not to do it so successfully that the state will throw in its hand altogether . |
| 29 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 30 | And she does not hear them as well as she did once . |