Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |
| 2 | Looking round for somewhere to hide the wrecked toy she climbed on to a chair and put the doll on top of the nursery cupboard . |
| 3 | But , to all practical intents and purposes , particularly in matters of finance , Tristan himself had merely joined the favoured band who belonged to John-William Dallam . |
| 4 | The entire country highly appreciates the outstanding activity you carry out in the field of science and technology … |
| 5 | These consequences will be discussed in later chapters , but it is necessary to see where they fit into the overall theory at the outset , especially given the recent interest which has been shown in Reich 's theories . |
| 6 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 7 | He was a powerful , very fit-looking man , and he was obviously enjoying the mental distress he had caused and the fact that he held her powerless in his hands . |
| 8 | ‘ When he was beaten his Dad did n't only buy the winning kart he bought the entire team for his son . |
| 9 | When the Birds of Australia was finally completed in June 1848 , Gould generously and justly acknowledge the vital role his amanuensis had played in running the entire business while he was away . |
| 10 | Right , so to find the average speed what you gon na do ? |
| 11 | Jakobson uses a culinary example in his discussion of the question which nicely complements the vessel-liquid image which is so often implied in the form-content distinction . |
| 12 | Lyn did n't much like the old man who kept the shop . |
| 13 | It is argued that to speak out on this subject is only to suggest the very evil you want to cure , and to do more harm than good … |
| 14 | Alternatively , the Soviets might select the site at Brawdy as a target for a sudden nuclear strike in order to demonstrate that they were able to protect their submarines in the Atlantic and so maintain the nuclear threat which the presence of such posed to the United States . |
| 15 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
| 16 | I could not help her directly but only invoke the greatest power we eagles have . |
| 17 | Kicking the ball up field and ‘ hoping for the best ’ , as you put it , is fundamental to my strategy this season and a change in policy now would only disrupt the well-oiled machine I have created . |
| 18 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 19 | We greatly value the close contact we have with the Junior School prefects and the Sixth Year pupils , as well as the assistance we receive from parents in a variety of situations . |
| 20 | I only corrected the false impression he had of — " |
| 21 | One of the shawled women must have seen Sharpe and Doggett approaching for she suddenly called the small girl who ran nervously towards the thatched cottage . |
| 22 | Its just a pity there s not a better song to really get at the SCUM supporters , that does nt perhaps offend the older generation who WERE alive at the time . |
| 23 | So find the right angle which is usually pretty obvious and the side opposite that the longest side is the hypotenuse which is a long word . |
| 24 | The injustice of this view only reflects the deficient understanding which a pope could have of internal English politics . |
| 25 | The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds — they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to . |
| 26 | I only saw the first page which , in case you 've forgotten the system , shows the subject 's photograph , age , length of time spent in the employ of the company , when he — or she — joined us , when he — or she — left us . |
| 27 | By constantly making the same mistake there is the danger that you are reinforcing and learning how to make the error rather than correcting it . |
| 28 | For a second Sara looked blankly at him and then she suddenly remembered the little man who had called to see Matthew the day Fairfax had been there . |
| 29 | When , even with their minimal research and development funding , some renewables have looked promising enough to threaten the nuclear hegemony their prospects have been unceremoniously ditched . |
| 30 | So to get the new fare you multiply the old fare by one point one seven . |