Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I just fled rather than talk to her . |
| 2 | I also knew better than to seek him out . |
| 3 | Operating the 238S requires a separate mixer , which I actually find easier than using an all-in-one machine because working alone and trying to remember complicated bounces and mixes and all the things which have to go on tape is hard enough , so routing signals through the desk seems to make more sense to an already cluttered mind . |
| 4 | As the name suggests , the board literally flips over on its side and you usually tumble off when sailing fast on a reach . |
| 5 | Most water companies offer the choice of having a water meter installed so that you pay for the water you actually use rather than pay water rates based on the rateable value of your house . |
| 6 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 7 | In the case of the Kobuk Eskimos their object in working jade , which they even carried on while waiting for caribou to cross the river , was to obtain a ready supply of trade goods . |
| 8 | But government spokesmen said that they wanted to see it eventually set so as to maintain the level of existing capacity at the end of the century . |
| 9 | The teacher expressed concern that , although he could write quite well in English , he only did so when writing collaboratively with his friend ( who was absent ) ; she thought that collaboration might be becoming an avoidance strategy , to get out of the frustrating task of attempting to write in English . |