Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother needed to be reassured that it would be all right to stop putting a nappy on Susan and to talk to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in the lavatory . |
| 2 | But only 200,000 have taken a leap into the dark to buy non-privatised quoted shares . |
| 3 | Similarly , it is extremely unusual to need to attempt a port tack start . |
| 4 | During the pilot study I saw 160 patients ; only four chose to see a doctor in preference to the ENP . |
| 5 | The difficulty for the prosecution is proving that a child so young intended to commit a crime . |
| 6 | But I was real familiar with his records and so I knew it was gon na be that way ; in fact it was really kinda fun to have to take a guess at when he was gon na change . |
| 7 | They seem to have disregarded one immediately evident aspect of Mr Fraser 's life ; it being Fair Day at Strichen he had guests at lunch , one of whom had at least been sufficiently energetic to have attended a lecture Dr Johnson gave at Lichfield . |
| 8 | She was very hospitable , made Jane sit down , was friendly to the dogs , brought coffee , then sat down herself , obviously overjoyed to have found a neighbour . |
| 9 | I was so eager to start training an owl , I felt I knew what I was taking on , and yet the right bird eluded me . |
| 10 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 11 | An ominous sign … or were they just afraid to admit supporting a rebel ? |
| 12 | Joyce and Rourke were just happy to have found a dream lifestyle though they occasionally questioned why their pockets were still empty . |
| 13 | I 'm disappointed that not more have staked a claim . ’ |
| 14 | THE DINNER OR LUNCHEON PARTY Whatever time of day it is , this is most likely to mean inviting a group of people over for a ‘ sit-down ’ meal . |
| 15 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 16 | It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by Handel . |
| 17 | Secretly , though I had every sympathy for Surkov , I thought him much more likely to have raped a woman when drunk than Miss Hayes-Drummond was to have made a false accusation . |
| 18 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 19 | After birth they were more likely to have shared a bed with another person than non-Maori infants ( χ 2 =42 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 20 | As he raised a curious eyebrow she elaborated with satisfaction , ‘ I can think of someone far more likely to have put a torch to G.W. Fashions than myself . ’ |
| 21 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 22 | The Price Is Right host Leslie , 59 , above , can hear but is still unable to speak following an operation to remove two blood clots from his brain after a road crash . |
| 23 | People in regions with low house prices are usually unable to afford to purchase a house in a higher priced area , whereas those in the higher priced areas are unwilling to move out in view of the lower capital gains to be made . |
| 24 | Cloud flying , particularly in shower clouds , can be quite a dangerous pastime and on many days it would be totally irresponsible to risk losing a club glider by attempting to climb a large cloud . |
| 25 | There is hardly any need to begin a book on new technology with an explanation of why the topic is of such significance . |
| 26 | It would have been far more threatening to have attempted a simulation of a ‘ round the graveside ’ dramatic playing . |
| 27 | But traditionally neither has had an organization capable of responding to commercial pressures . |
| 28 | ‘ I am also busy trying to form a wildlife group in the Darlington area for members and non-members of the trust . |
| 29 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 30 | Often this seems to involve a contradiction of an accepted meaning ( the striptease as non-erotic , the jet-man as having gone beyond speed , wrestling as more to do with Commedia dell'Arte than sport , etc . ) . |