Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |
| 2 | What we 're looking for is a quality system and a set of procedures which are flexible enough to enable you to handle the slick jobs , which you have n't got a lot of fee income for . |
| 3 | The opening of a poem is obviously important because there is no previous discourse through which to interpret it except for the title , but this is not precise enough to enable us to assign the proper indexical meaning to the deictic elements and terms . |
| 4 | He even managed to do some work in front of the Greek television cameras , so enabling me to make the Central Television programme ‘ At Home with Costakis in Athens ’ . |
| 5 | Take a rest and try again — it is amazing how much better you do the second time around . |
| 6 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 7 | The predominantly transparent colours of the gouache gave my washes a strong tint , and so allowed me to apply the broad washed demanded by a large watercolour . |
| 8 | On the day , first collect your number — most events now ask for a deposit , so ensure you have the correct money . |
| 9 | The Minister wished to revoke them only to ensure he obtained the expected revenue from the increased cost . |
| 10 | But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again . |
| 11 | In so doing it rejects the classical vision of the company which defines the interests of the company as those of the shareholders , who are the only members of the company . |
| 12 | In so doing he became the first US President since Harry S. Truman to veto a major spending bill . |
| 13 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 14 | Firstly , he used a telescope to observe the heavens , and in so doing he transformed the observational data that the Copernican theory was required to explain . |
| 15 | By so doing he changed the very character of the conflict , for through the creation of a wider involvement in its success he tried to ensure that he , and his successors , would have broad support for the continued involvement of England and Englishmen in France . |
| 16 | In so doing she demonstrated the vital role of the family in early-modern towns . |
| 17 | Such evidence only helps us to see the long-term trend over two or three centuries . |
| 18 | After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me . |
| 19 | Only once we were inside did we appreciate the immense scale of Wolio . |
| 20 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 21 | Not only did they run the longest steam-hauled train ever seen on the 20-mile line since BR days , but also set a new British mileage record for the longest continuous run of Beamish Museum 's replica ‘ Locomotion ’ . |
| 22 | He was exact in his choice ; not only did they have the same slender shape and were equal in height , but they were malleable too . |
| 23 | Not only did it have the broad ideological stamp of approval from Marx and Engels themselves , but the preparation for it within Romania had started already in the late 1960s . |
| 24 | Not only did it furnish the missing equation of the Keynesian system , it had also assumed a role of paramount significance in the formulation of macroeconomic policy . |
| 25 | But it was Eliot who in the end loosened the hold of the " modernists " on English culture — not only did he assert the public role and " social usefulness " of the writer in an almost nineteenth-century manner , but he also announced that the principles he derived from his religious belief were more enduring than literary or critical ones . |
| 26 | So do we speak the same language ? |
| 27 | So do you want the green man Phil ? |
| 28 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 29 | Not only do they represent the first substantial draft of much of the material that was to be more fully worked out there . |
| 30 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |