Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though ill , old and partially blind he went , having been offered a ‘ litter ’ by the Duke of Tuscany , though Venice had offered sanctuary . |
| 2 | I find that autumn-sown oats or rye ripen early and often allow me to squeeze in a catch crop of oats or rye after the main harvest to be grazed in the late autumn and spring before ploughing for roots . |
| 3 | pure , pure and simply to let him get a sleep . |
| 4 | He was aware of making an effort to pass this question off as casually as possible and thereby knew he had failed . |
| 5 | Even though mammals lavish such care and attention on their young , they still have the same two options open to insects and fish , crabs and reptiles — whether to concentrate their energies on producing as many young as possible and then let them fend for themselves , or whether to restrict the numbers to very few but look after them carefully . |
| 6 | Wednesday could tell Endill was upset and eventually persuaded him to explain why . |
| 7 | ‘ Little Eddie ( Eddie Carr , the manager ) got pretty upset and just told me to sod off . |
| 8 | It was as if their covenant was both to keep the problem alive and yet to ensure they did nothing about it . |
| 9 | It seems that their food intake is reduced because of this preference for staying warm and dry and neither do they travel so far for their food . |
| 10 | If this also makes mathematics classrooms places where girls feel more comfortable and therefore encourages them to stay with mathematics longer , that is all to the good . |
| 11 | Dangerous driving cos he made the old woman give over and overtook somewhere totally stupid and probably find he had no brake . |
| 12 | For the past twenty years he had been trying to show the ‘ educated classes ’ the merits of Gothic and now found them acknowledged ‘ by the highest authorities in the land ’ . |
| 13 | Let everything out into the open and then let them hurt you with it . |
| 14 | ( b ) they are more efficient and thus save you time and work in the long term . |
| 15 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |
| 16 | He knew how to break one rock with another rock so they were sharp and then used them to make a point on a stick . |
| 17 | For the rest of us crying is a hit or miss experience , sometimes satisfying but sometimes leaving us drained , exhausted or more hopeless than when we started . |
| 18 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 19 | Robyn enquired with as much derisive sarcasm as she could muster , deliberately blocking out the memory of how wonderful it had felt with Luke and how sordid and somehow dirty it had felt when Callum had touched her . |
| 20 | Well ac actually on it 's , looks absolutely horrible and just thought it looked really nice and I was , did n't feel comfortable in it all night ! |
| 21 | The unkind things your husband says to you not only make you feel bad but also make him feel better . |