Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daddy kept rather obviously bestirring himself to mind about my exams and piling up my desk with secondary stuff I 've no time for — I do n't want to read literary criticism yet , almost at all , and I 'm damned sure he does n't smother his clever boys with it . |
| 2 | Only rarely did they talk of their men willingly taking over the housework and servicing their breadwinner wives . |
| 3 | Only rarely do they arise with braided line , or in the sophisticated Kevlar or Spectra twist . |
| 4 | You have long since suspected what happened to your half-brother after the Gruagach stormed Tara and killed the King . ’ |
| 5 | Now she could see red houses , swimming-pools , race tracks , skyscrapers sticking up like teeth , and roads and railways so uniformly crisscross they seemed like tiles on a vast kitchen floor . |
| 6 | It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars . |
| 7 | So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business . |
| 8 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 9 | The father of five 's face was so badly busted he had to be fitted with a metal cage to keep the bones in place until they set . |
| 10 | She was so badly burned she had to be identified by a palm print left at home . |
| 11 | The policeman was so badly burned he had to be identified from dental records . |
| 12 | Near one of these , a guardian-baboon squatted , on a leash long enough to enable it to run after any would-be shoplifter and seize his thigh in its jaws . |
| 13 | But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television . |
| 14 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 15 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 16 | He brought you back here , and you stayed with him long enough to get him to part with the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 17 | Love is so highly charged you want to be left in peace or left with Andrew 's piece . |
| 18 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 19 | Robert half-expected the whole cycle to start again , so long had he waited for an answer to this question . |
| 20 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 21 | Perhaps best to let it go at that . |
| 22 | But I think that was when I was in the sea holding on to the bit of foam , and more or less just let myself float under the water , but me arm was round the top of the bit of foam , on the surface , and I think it got burnt by the the heat off the platform then . |
| 23 | Rose could never afford for herself the sort of supper her young man will provide for her , and she 's fly enough not to get herself dragged into an alley and done out of it . |
| 24 | Our emotional temperature can so easily make itself felt to others . |
| 25 | Only once did she think of Johnny , when , as the morning wore away , one of the mothers , who was sitting reading while father jumped the waves with the children at the water 's edge , closed her book , and spreading a cloth on the sand , began to set out the picnic . |
| 26 | In my view this restaurant 's three year old is a model of good behaviour : his tantrums are rare and only once did he complain about a lack of attention by peeing on the floor right between my feet and his mother 's . |
| 27 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 28 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 29 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 30 | Only later did she decide on her expertise — ‘ ethnological bush-work ’ . |