Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 2 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 3 | Okay , so they may ask you to use something which you have n't necessarily had to do before so that they 're really all that the examiner 's testing is that you 've got a little bit of nous , a little bit of savvy and with what you 've got available you can improvise a dressing or use the dressing in a sensible manner so that your casualty 's comfortable and you 're doing the best you can for them , okay ? |
| 4 | Parents may feel upset whatever the age of their teenage daughter , but those with younger daughters are obviously going to react more negatively than those with older teenagers . |
| 5 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 6 | The fourth boy , however , slipped and fell to his knees and was only beginning to scramble upright again when the fender caught his chest with a thud that shook the vehicle . |
| 7 | She should perhaps have noted more positively that Brahms labelled this as a plain Allegro , unlike the corresponding movement of No. 3 , which he marked Allegro maestoso . |
| 8 | Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered . |
| 9 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 10 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 11 | The critics were quick to recognise the anguish in the writing , but dismissed it as ‘ hopeless pessimism ’ or ‘ a shameful nightmare which one only wishes to forget as quickly and as completely as possible ’ . |
| 12 | A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful . |
| 13 | My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me . |
| 14 | Once you have experienced and enjoyed the particular flavour of playing for your country in a cap international you just want to do so again and again . |
| 15 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 16 | Could you all just stop breathing now please till we get home ! |
| 17 | She could easily have wept as messily and uselessly as Monica . |
| 18 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 19 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |
| 20 | Last night , England manager Bob Bennett said Gooch still intends to return home early and miss the two-week end-of-tour trip to Sri lanka where Alec Stewart will captain England . |
| 21 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 22 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 23 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 24 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 25 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 26 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 27 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 28 | They quickly learned to respond more rapidly and pressed the incorrect switch relatively infrequently ( Fig 5.1 ) . |
| 29 | More people than ever wanted to live there rather than in towns and 79 per cent took the view that the countryside was in danger . |
| 30 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |