Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 's , towards the end of the first chapter there 's a bit all about erm erm er temptation and deliver us from evil kind of thing which is obviously rather from the , from the Lord 's Prayer and yet it 's , rather explained rather nicely and it , it 's a lovely , lovely book ! |
| 2 | God , it was bad enough masturbating as often as she did , without pushing her fingers up her arse . |
| 3 | Remember that ‘ small is beautiful ’ , so make as near as you can to ‘ one bite ’ food to avoid wastage . |
| 4 | Sleep is a great help to any illness , so sleep as much as you can . |
| 5 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 6 | It was all happening comfortably just as she wished . |
| 7 | I only found out yesterday that there was some sort of operation . |
| 8 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 9 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 10 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 11 | He only came up here cos they were closing . |
| 12 | Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers . |
| 13 | Vern said it looked like the owners were coming to use the boat again soon : we 'd better clear off quick before it was light in the morning , specially as it 'd be Saturday . |
| 14 | It does not necessarily work as quickly as it did in Sylvia 's case — but it always succeeds , provided the patient does his or her homework regularly and conscientiously . |
| 15 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 16 | If you , I mean if you 're only going round there and you 're gon na go to bed at a reasonable hour . |
| 17 | They will perhaps understand even better if they pay particular attention to the fine details of every movement . |
| 18 | Finally , a reminder about circular knitting given in figure 2 will only work so long as there is n't a punchcard in the card reader . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better set off now before it gets dark , ’ he told the driver . |
| 20 | ‘ Only getting back here after I dumped it . |
| 21 | The House of Commons may be the cradle of our democracy — a little better understood perhaps now that its proceedings are televised . |
| 22 | And a team had been sent in as normal for initial investigation , only to retreat almost immediately when their equipment had registered the fact that this was a Secondary Darkfall . |
| 23 | It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity . |
| 24 | To make matters even more complicated , there are two quite distinct kinds of mood-change , for the cat 's pupils will become greatly enlarged not only when it sees something pleasant but also when it sees something terribly threatening . |
| 25 | Although we found the geese , the nests were long deserted and the large creches of goslings were big enough to run much faster than we could . |
| 26 | Our sense of adventure only went so far and we relied on them to make the decisions . |
| 27 | He held the parcel out and then let it fall , and it had time enough to turn lazily over before it landed with a solid smack on the terrace below and bounced towards the rail . |
| 28 | I was famous at 18 so knew early on that it was part of my job description . ’ |
| 29 | A couple more years and it might be too late ’ — he gave a rather vulgar laugh — ‘ Better go on up while you still can . ’ |
| 30 | She 'd better go down quickly before he started to get suspicious . |