Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope he will eventually dip back into that area . |
| 2 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , would you rather stay here in this prison ? |
| 4 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 5 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 6 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 7 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 8 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 9 | The main Moslem militias had all withdrawn well before this deadline , ( Druse ) Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) fighters moving south to their Chouf mountain stronghold , and the rival Shia groups Amal and Hezbollah deploying even further south to the Iqlim al-Tuffah hills and other areas bordering Israel 's self-declared " security zone " . |
| 10 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 11 | All processes execute on the local client — not on the central host processor — and version control ensures the dictionary ( list of objects ) is only downloaded once to each client , on the first time of use . |
| 12 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 13 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 14 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 15 | Or they can be plotted against the fitted ( here smoothed ) values , to look for indications of non-constant variability ; if the residuals get bigger as the smoothed values get bigger , this usually means that the the analysis would be better carried out on another scale . |
| 16 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 17 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 18 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 19 | While the rest of Wales quakes in anticipation of next week 's invasion by the world champions , Price is merely looking forward to another tussle with the ultimate rugby enemy . |
| 20 | Enough came out of that conversation to keep me brooding half the night . |
| 21 | ‘ We were so looking forward to this trip and it 's been awful , ’ Rose whispered , sadly shaking her head . |
| 22 | Husbands may resent the exclusive nature of the nursing couple — mother and baby apparently absorbed only in each other — and long to be included . |
| 23 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 24 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 25 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 26 | You two girls had better keep away from that part of the world while they 're about . |
| 27 | Some pieces , like the hydria acquired by the Second Marquess of Sligo ( lot 22 ) were known from the nineteenth century , as was the Amphiaraos stamnos ( lot 24 ) which appeared in an early drawing by Benndorf published in Berlin in 1833 , after which it disappeared , only to surface again in this collection . |
| 28 | It presupposes that that is right that those boundaries have been rightly drawn essentially for all time . |
| 29 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 30 | I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month 's issue . |