Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry to butt in like this . ’ |
| 2 | " The autumn gales 'll be on us in a few weeks , and the volunteers wo n't be so easy to come by after that . " |
| 3 | Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ? |
| 4 | So many turned up for this emergency meeting of Swindon 's railway pensioners , that more than a hundred had to stand outside . |
| 5 | This is one reason why its taken me so long to find out about this mailing list . |
| 6 | Because , while being regressed , the patient is well aware of his or her present-day persona in addition to the previous one , Myra found it very distressing to think that she had been so happy to go along with all Hugh 's demands . |
| 7 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 8 | On the other hand , he was extremely difficult to pin down to any conclusion . |
| 9 | And then erm the lads in both they had decided they were gon na go on the go slow , but they were told if you go go on the on the go slow system , you 're gon na go home , he said , I 'm not prepared to carry on with that , he said , the manager there , that 's brother that is . |
| 10 | It was all Harriet could do not to confront her , have the whole thing out , tell her that she was not prepared to put up with such behaviour any longer , that she might be a war widow with a child , but she was living in her mother 's house and should at least not take such care and help for granted . |
| 11 | These have proved difficult if not impossible to pin down in any precise terms and demand for them appears to be similarly volatile … . |
| 12 | It is not easy to hit back at that sort of conversation . |
| 13 | Soldiers , right , stab her and they 're all dying and then you see the head like it 's just all dressed up in these things and it 's Arnie underneath it and he takes the head off |
| 14 | , cos unless we 're going to get it straight , but it just all comes in like this time of year , and just comes and let us in . |
| 15 | What am I most likely to get out of this if I do it ? |
| 16 | This was pre-eminently the case where the Area Boards were united in opposing the Central Authority or the Government ( as on the Clow differential ) , though Citrine was more willing to give in to such pressure on matters where he respected the Board Chairmen 's views , such as tariffs , than on matters where he was determined to impose his own , as in labour relations . |
| 17 | It is much more important to look out for those strong , peculiar , characteristic symptoms and any mental or general symptoms . |
| 18 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 19 | Balbinder was always pleased to come along for these sessions , to play with my children 's toys and run in the garden . |
| 20 | The theory of an original simplicity about the good Galilean carpenter Jesus , which was surrounded with supernatural stories and so corrupted and made complicated , began to look far more doubtful ; at least , more difficult to get out of any evidence available . |
| 21 | Expecting little good to come out of any country even partially populated by non-Muslims , Ibn Battuta had few expectations of India . |
| 22 | It is also important to point out at this stage that Firbas ' notions of context-dependence/independence are much more restricted than Halliday 's notions of given/new : |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , if you ask me , there 's as much goes on in most of these valleys as there ever used to be . ’ |
| 24 | He sat back and folded his arms , giving me the impression that he was now ready to get down to some serious talking . |
| 25 | And I was n't prepared to go along with that . |
| 26 | There was a long pause then Rachel went on , ‘ Ian was n't prepared to put up with that , and I decided if his understanding would n't stretch that far I was better off without him . ’ |
| 27 | We did n't half get up to some mischief , I 'll tell you . |
| 28 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 29 | However , even this breaks down in some cases — for instance , in the form of hypercholesterolaemia due to a low density lipoprotein receptor defect , the pathology is quantitative , and introducing a normal gene may improve the prognosis , even in adults in whom the disease is dominant . |
| 30 | I was able to travel quite freely for about a week , and then after that , I was n't able to go out at all . |