Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He was still brazening it out the next morning when the Provost and his bodyguard of twelve mounted serjeants and ten archers came to collect us . |
| 5 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ca n't say fairer than that , except if th'bist good to me as well I might even give thee back the two shilling . ’ |