Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 2 | Melanie had joined us , having put Antiope to bed somewhere among the tents , and so had her minder Tricia , though she was n't slamming with us , rather contenting herself with a small carton of yoghurt drink and a straw . |
| 3 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 4 | Another officer was called , and I was carried away , with much clanking of keys , eventually to find myself in a small room , where I was dumped in a negligent way on a table . |
| 5 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 6 | They eventually found themselves in a huge square where a white marble fountain played in the centre . |
| 7 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 8 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 10 | A tribe living near the shore might wonder at this evidence of sorting or arrangement in the world , and might develop a myth to account for it , perhaps attributing it to a Great Spirit in the sky with a tidy mind and a sense of order . |
| 11 | Mr Bérégovoy , who so prided himself as a good manager , had to hear Edouard Balladur , the new prime minister , describe the economy as being in its worst state since the second world war . |
| 12 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 13 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 14 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 15 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 16 | Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 18 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 19 | You then have to call an agency in order to obtain emergency relief , and they not only provide you with a temporary chef , but promise to send you details of all their head chefs currently seeking employment . |
| 20 | THE story goes that many centuries ago some fishermen in the South China Sea were driven north by a typhoon , but were fortunate enough to find themselves in a splendid natural harbour protected by a large island . |
| 21 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Flittern said , folding himself onto the bench beside her , ‘ we could perhaps tempt you with a bottled rogue amorous thought , distilled at the first quarter of the moon , and salted with a spark of starlight . |
| 22 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 23 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 24 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 26 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 27 | These powers are to take immediate possession of all the debtor 's property but only to sell anything of a perishable nature or goods which are likely to go down in value if not sold ( s 287(2) ) . |
| 28 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 29 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 30 | One may wish to study the statistics of word usage or word order with a view to understanding a text better , to catch nuances of meaning and perhaps to render them into a different language . |