Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several days of this treatment , Honey became less anxious and forgot her bad habits of rearing and crossing her jaws ; and she eventually became quite a pleasant horse to ride . |
| 2 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 3 | The insect may be 50 yards away , and so make only a tiny image on my retina . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not a great one for carting them all around the country , so Will only contests about a dozen competitions a year ’ . |
| 5 | It wor even , providing you have n't got a lot of if you 've only got about a hundred people it 's not too bad that cos it , it also creates a bit more atmosphere . |
| 6 | Surfing can only sustain about a dozen photographers . |
| 7 | ‘ She only arrived here a few days ago , when her uncle died . |
| 8 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 9 | Enough to put together a good story but not enough to rush into print with it . ’ |
| 10 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 11 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |
| 12 | ‘ My mother was a very careful owner and only did about a thousand miles a year between the end of the war and 1962 . |
| 13 | Strictly speaking , only two sentential contexts are required to prove semantic constituency , but of course a constituent limited to only two specific contexts would necessarily play only a minor role in a language . |
| 14 | And you 've only worked here a few months ! ’ he said . |
| 15 | If , like her , you have a sweet tooth , you might be better leaving just a little sugar in the diet to increase the likelihood that you will continue with the new sugar-reduced regime . |
| 16 | The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack . |
| 17 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 18 | We mere peasant members are asked , in practice if not in theory , merely to murmur reverentially a few names of a few decent people into a few of the proper ears , who will then look after everything for us . |
| 19 | Sergei and Anton , from Chernobyl , too shy perhaps to speak even a few words in their own language . |
| 20 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 21 | However in East Anglia the South Downs group still supplied a large proportion ( this time somewhat under 50 per cent of the axeheads ) , whereas East Anglian sources , such as Grimes Graves , had apparently cornered only a small proportion of the market . |
| 22 | This time it will almost certainly drop a wing , but just easing forwards a little will make a recovery . |
| 23 | I normally lose just a few pounds , Bobby . |
| 24 | This mild stimulus normally produces only a weak withdrawal ; following conditioning a strong withdrawal is produced by the weak stimulus to the siphon as well . |
| 25 | In the solid state , 1,2-dithiadiazoles generally show quite a complex array of secondary interactions , both S … |
| 26 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 27 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 28 | The relation ’ — larger than — ’ can thus generate only a non-branching hierarchy ; in such a hierarchy we would have to say that B and C above jointly occupied the same position . |
| 29 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |