Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd turned it as high and as hard as she could get it to go . |
| 2 | This would result in his rhythms running more slowly when he was interested and more quickly when he was bored ( because he would go to bed earlier due to the lack of something interesting to do and so require less sleep ) . |
| 3 | a so and so , er maths is crap and so on and you know , that 's that 's going to make this into something that we would n't want |
| 4 | The spacing of such steps on pointe is so minute and so fast that it is not possible to see the change of feet as one succeeds the other . |
| 5 | His hand curled around the nape of her neck , the pressure of it light but steady so that she had no choice but to lift her head and meet his gaze . |
| 6 | When the lights dimmed again she would slip out by the rear exit , and it would be dark outside and very late when she came back . |
| 7 | Also , in Deanos support , He does work hard and effectively even when he s not scoring . |
| 8 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 9 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 10 | If the merchandise is valuable and indeed even if it is not , there could also be a problem of pilferage . |
| 11 | Really slam into the punch bag , hitting it with a constant barrage of punches as fast and as hard as you possibly can for no more than 15–20 seconds . |
| 12 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 13 | Then , of course , there were the Bruces , Lord Bruce who should be preparing himself for death instead of being involved in politics as if he were some young courtier intent on rising as fast and as far as he could . |
| 14 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , Master Daunbey , ’ d'Aubigny began , ‘ a representative of the English King is always welcome but doubly so when he is the nephew of the great Lord Cardinal . ’ |
| 16 | But her radio was in place , her maps and street guide and other papers were still present although not exactly as she had left them . |
| 17 | Ted was awake and out here because he 'd been hearing Wayne speaking to him , and he was worried about his sanity . |
| 18 | By contrast the larger class-D animals , living on grasslands where rainfall varies , are less selective and so long as they do not crop the grass too close many animals can cover the same foraging area in a short time . |
| 19 | It overlooked the street , it was too hot , and the people on the other side of the wall had been watching the hotel 's cable channel late and loud so that he 'd had to go around and hammer on their door . |
| 20 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 21 | erm , but actually near the erm near the bridge the the large roundabout before you go over the Gateshead bridge erm underneath that there 's a subway and what have you there 's shops in there , there 's a little shop in there that th that used to do these rolls and beautiful rolls , any bread you wanted , any filling you wanted you know they have vast variety of different fillings you know , and it was all there in these erm show cases , and we used to go down there and get a sandwich , take it back to the place where we was you know , this conference centre and erm it was great and then course when we got back |
| 22 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 23 | After the verdict was announced Poindexter 's chief lawyer , Richard W. Beckler , stated that his client would appeal against the conviction and would " keep fighting it as long and as hard as we can " . |
| 24 | They were both still and quiet , looking at a toad in the rough grass on the bank ; its body was swollen , its legs stiff and straight so that it stood high on its toes , looking like a little table . |
| 25 | Richie had deployed half a dozen of his tried and trusted Hazards Limited operatives to look after Royalbion plant and installations both onshore and offshore so that he and Patrick could be free to hold a watching brief at the Million Sterling Tournament . |
| 26 | I should wish you were brought home in wine rather than to come in so sober and so late as you do . |
| 27 | For all the rhetoric of a ‘ classless ’ society , of enabling people ‘ to rise as far and as fast as they can ’ , to quote John Major 's first speech to the new parliament , the reality remains of a nation in which inherited wealth and privilege , and institutionalised power or authority , matter far more than what individuals make of themselves . |
| 28 | In between you have elite , offbeat , unusual , mass and so on but they all lie somewhere between these extremes in terms of totally interacting and totally ignoring in many cases . |
| 29 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 30 | not to leave our handbags er in the car , not to leave the windows open and so on and I think that really dodges the issue of why people commit criminal acts . |