Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 2 | The humpback 's singing can be heard from 32 kilometres away and so probably helps to bring breeding individuals together . |
| 3 | No one really sensible would have got into such a mess in Other world — letting the panic take over and not even trying to think straight . |
| 4 | Rather than such force being seen as a prerogative of the state , it is seen by many in the alliance to inhere in the people of Ulster who over and over again need to assert their autonomous rights . |
| 5 | I said that the Occidental are gon na They 'll either willingly pay or they 're going have to pay a lot of compensation to the bereaved and er fund more or less just going to top up any money when it 's probably not going to be necessary in the long run . |
| 6 | The exoskeleton of the head is composed of several sclerites more or less intimately associated to form a hard , compact case or head-capsule , general works on which include those of Duporte ( 1957 ) , Gouin ( 1968 ) , Manton ( 1964 ) , Matsuda ( 1965 ) , Snodgrass ( 1947 , 1960 ) and Strenger ( 1952 ) . |
| 7 | The meso- and metathorax become more or less intimately associated to form a pterothorax and the union is often so close that the limits of those regions can only be ascertained with difficulty . |
| 8 | They point out that the Faroese are generally well off and no longer need to hunt pilot whales or puffins to exist , and that the practice has become something of a sport rather than a necessity . |
| 9 | He is politely but quite openly starting to mock her . |
| 10 | I went down on my knees carefully and as carefully turned to face the other way , south . |
| 11 | Make sure the rug if clean before you ask your saddler to do any work on it ; if it is n't , he or she will probably and quite rightly refuse to accept it . |
| 12 | First impressions lasting longest and all that , when 4AD 's Boston Seethe Party first toured the UK in its full label package glory , while the Pixies were the kind of nutters you 'd gladly go joyriding with , The Muses … well , the Muses were the kind of band you respected from afar and near really wanted to share a six-pack with underneath the baseball park grandstand . |
| 13 | Hence Dahl argues against Walker that ‘ he insists upon interpreting as if they were normative or deontological certain writings that were mainly if not wholly intended to set out descriptive empirical theories ’ . |
| 14 | Around us in the middle distance , which is as near or far as anywhere else seems to get , lie other havens of plaster and flora . |
| 15 | If J. A. Hobson was justified in speaking of a ‘ crisis of Liberalism ’ in 1909 , it is equally if not more justified to think of the Edwardian period in terms of a ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ . |
| 16 | In a large field he did not have the clearest of runs as he challenged as a result of which he finished fast but too late having to settle for fourth place to the Ebor winner Quick Ransom . |
| 17 | He did n't as yet quite dare to imagine himself as a real artist . |
| 18 | ‘ A good example of the sort of player who should be a great beneficiary of this scheme is James Lenton — a tremendously hard worker who has struggled financially and once even had to quit to resort to coaching , ’ Lewis added . |