Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 2 | Eventually I reach the same old compromise . |
| 3 | so I said the next best thing I said is ring Sarah and she said she 'd already sent a gift , no have a conversation with her , is Lorraine coming today , no she said Terry 's decorating never said where |
| 4 | So she said I 'm sorry , so I got the next nearest , I just can not waste any more time . |
| 5 | So I missed the first two minutes of Jazz Record Requests on Radio 3 . ’ |
| 6 | So I joined the half-dozen speechless loners and got to work on the Sidecars . |
| 7 | Politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run and so I guess the only satisfactory way forward would be to leave badgers completely alone and compensate farmers in full for badger-related losses , including consequential losses . ’ |
| 8 | And it is an improvement which only they have the requisite professional skills and training to undertake . |
| 9 | By doing so they amended the three basic treaties which respectively created the European Coal and Steel Community ( which came into existence in 1951 ) , the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community ( Euratom and EEC — both of which came into operation in 1958 ) . |
| 10 | So they bought the cheapest obtainable in order to get more of it , Nicolas , and stuff called Hirondelle . |
| 11 | Together they relived the beautiful sunny day at St Anthony 's Church , Saltney , when their paths last crossed . |
| 12 | Together they relived the beautiful sunny day at St Anthony 's Church , Saltney , when their paths last crossed . |
| 13 | Very gently he caught the long glittering strands and brushed them behind her ear , his fingers lingering coolly against her flesh just for a moment before he let them drop to his side . |
| 14 | Suddenly he realised the single glaring inconsistency in any line of argument which was designed to point to revenge or the settlement of a grudge as a motive for the attempt . |
| 15 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 16 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 17 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 18 | So he allowed the strange old Englishwoman to play her game of gaoler . |
| 19 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 20 | if you like so it pinches the two positive charges off the hydrogen cos in these equations the charges must must balance as well so that if you just cross the double positive out you need to you ca n't write it in but you need to remember that it wants to become a double positive given |
| 21 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 22 | But she could n't say no , so somehow she raised the five hundred dollars to bail him out . |
| 23 | Unconsciously she patted the slight swelling of her stomach under her smart new navy-blue smock . |
| 24 | Thus we have the conventional one-address instruction format ( introduced in Chapter 1 ) where one of the operands and the result are held in the accumulator , and the store address of only the second operand has to be specified in the instruction . |
| 25 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 26 | Plus he pays the Gross National Product of Malawi in child support every month . |
| 27 | like you get the odd four and half pound |
| 28 | Directly we reached the single main road the estate-car 's off-side indicator began flickering . |
| 29 | Yeah you have any they have the whole thousands ? |
| 30 | They can expect to make around £1 million a tie from the three guaranteed ‘ league ’ matches once they reach the last eight . |