Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now although such a rule is not part of my physical or material world , its existence constrains my action just as effectively as they do ; we can call this a constraint of the world of ideas . |
| 2 | As it is , I have reservations about the application of the user interface in the Windows version , and will have to wait to see what the next version brings before I can make up my mind any more firmly than I can at present . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're taking my friend here as far as Horsey . |
| 4 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 5 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 6 | They should have had much better control and devised their computerisation rather more effectively than they did . ’ |
| 7 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 8 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 9 | He made her work twice as hard as the others . |
| 10 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 11 | He responded by calling her darling rather more often than was natural . |
| 12 | She feels her failure very sharply even though she wo n't admit it . ’ |
| 13 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 14 | The elderly woman turned her head as far sideways as the basket strap permitted . |
| 15 | No one thinks that a female MP can not represent both the men and the women in her constituency just as effectively as a man . |
| 16 | Academics already in post retain their tenure only so long as they do not move to another university or accept promotion within their present university . |
| 17 | Motor racing had featured on the periphery of her life as far back as she could remember . |
| 18 | With a final darting glance to ensure that her appearance was in order she made her way as nervously downstairs as if it had been she herself about to marry . |
| 19 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |
| 20 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 21 | I think he was crippled by his upbringing just as badly as he was by the car crash . |
| 22 | he made his debut as long ago as 1985 ; then came Cambridge , and intermittent promise back at Cardiff and Swansea . |
| 23 | Straining his neck as far forward as he could , he managed to push the window open several inches and , with another surge , wedged himself in the embrasure ; the spike on which the latch usually rested now sticking into his stomach . |
| 24 | ‘ But the trouble is that we do n't know the pattern of the stars here , ’ said Snodgrass , who had sent himself quite dizzy by standing perfectly still and craning his neck as far back as he could in order to see the night sky . |
| 25 | Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981 . |
| 26 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |
| 27 | ‘ What a lot of questions , ’ he said coldly , and put her out of his path rather less gently than he intended . |
| 28 | ‘ It — er — depends how — um — busy Barney is , ’ she made up as she went along , and with relief was let off the hook a little while her mother commented on how hard Barney worked , and how , if he could n't take his holiday quite as early as he 'd planned , that perhaps it might be a good idea for Cara to stay touring with her , and maybe take a plane to America from Czechoslovakia . |
| 29 | Echolocation in bats , although unknown in Paley 's time , would have served his purpose just as well as any of his examples . |
| 30 | She had also known that Charles would have to see his mother just as regularly after they were married as before : there were matters of state they had to discuss , and discuss in private . |