Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He eventually found it sitting on a wall outside a house . |
| 2 | The humiliation and jealousy that had surfaced in her did n't abate in the weeks ahead , and the prospect of the friends ' provincial tour together made her behave like a vixen . |
| 3 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 4 | If they only want me to stay for a year then I 'm entitled to do what I want under freedom of contract . |
| 5 | In 1922 , he made The Man Without Desire , an imaginative account of a man who wakes from a sleep of several hundred years only to find he suffers from a lack of emotion . |
| 6 | In so acting it acted for a dependent reason , for the assumption is that individuals have reason to wish for a convention and hence reason to take action to help form one . |
| 7 | Royal Rovers , who joined in 1894 , were so strapped they played with a rugby ball . |
| 8 | So let me turn to an issue , less Earth shattering , but no less vexatious — the keeping of mink in Shetland . |
| 9 | So let us look at an English case which exemplifies some of the practical problems confronting the theorists of sustainable development : Twyford Down ( near Winchester ) and the route of the M3 motorway in March 1990 . |
| 10 | To understand why this is so let us recapitulate for a moment . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a capacity which has obviously helped us survive as a species over thousands of years , and medical staff see evidence of it even today time after time , ’ said intensive care specialist Sally Ford . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've asked enough to keep me talking for a month . |
| 13 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 14 | Christmas is a good example of this : ten weeks before Christmas arrives , the shops start to fill up with goods which obviously encourage us to dwell on a day that is far ahead in the future . |
| 15 | Casey brings a double-handed chop down on the back of my neck , just off target but enough to send me reeling in a flood of numb red nausea . |
| 16 | The Russians have said they believe in a negotiated settlement to the civil war , but they are continuing to supply arms to President Mengistu , apparently to allow him to negotiate from a position of strength . |
| 17 | Not only did we call for a ‘ Welsh Centre for Sustainability ’ to help translate global commitments to sustainable development into practical action suited to Wales , but we also ran many persuasive campaigns highlighting the true environmental costs of a range of development proposals . |
| 18 | Balbirnie House , near Glenrothes in Fife , set itself a double challenge when it opened in November 1989 : not only did it launch into a depressed economy , but during a traditionally poor month for Scottish hotels . |
| 19 | Not only do they operate under a variety of influences which limit their room for manoeuvre , but public examinations , based on subjects , are a major constraint , recently reinforced by the subject-based GCSE examinations . |
| 20 | Not only do you benefit from an excellent service — but there are many other advantages too . |
| 21 | So if we get there early enough do you feel like a Wimpy ? |
| 22 | Am I right in believing these are of terrestrial origin , and if so , how long do they survive in an aquatic environment ? |
| 23 | Evangelical religion furnished Hopkins with a powerful rhetoric to arouse mass meetings and personally motivated her to embark on a public career exposing immorality . |
| 24 | Not only had he resigned at a particularly sensitive historical moment , it was also a political fact of life that the Cold War situation literally demanded that no concessions be made to anyone venturing to attack the party ; and the attempt to rehabilitate the " police spy " Nizan was undoubtedly perceived as an attack on the party . |
| 25 | Robert half-expected the whole cycle to start again , so long had he waited for an answer to this question . |
| 26 | Again if you re rely on L P G heaters as soon as you 've got an emp er a , a , a cylinder empty , get it out the way back to your supplier to make sure that you only have it serviced on a one to one basis so you get a one for one swap . |
| 27 | But that only makes her feel like a jerk . |
| 28 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 29 | By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck . |
| 30 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |