Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Does n't come off so easily and it sort goes into it a bit , |
| 32 | The infant , cradled in Miriam 's arms , began to cry , but so feebly that its noise made hardly any impression on the expanse of open air . |
| 33 | Nathan boomed and brayed so enthusiastically that his mother had to mop up a dribble of saliva that trickled out of the corner of his mouth . |
| 34 | In Luke 's story an angel came and comforted Jesus , as he prayed so earnestly that his sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood ( Luke 22:43–44 ) . |
| 35 | From the heady acclaim of August 1944 , his popularity descended so far that his resignation provoked surprise but no emotion — a mere twenty-seven per cent of the French people said they wanted him back . |
| 36 | Er , in so far that my father had been dismissed from the er from the coal mining industry , er before just before nineteen twenty six , and he was officially unemployed . |
| 37 | So far as their work goes it has point only as a mean to these . |
| 38 | According to Marsh and his colleagues ( 1978 ) police intervention is often welcomed by the hooligans in so far as their presence provides a safety valve and prevents the aggro from going too far . |
| 39 | Jane Cox was 21 , attractive , single and hardworking in so far as her condition allowed . |
| 40 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 41 | The adulterer is the cause of this in so far as his/her act has allowed a superhuman being to attack the spouse . |
| 42 | ‘ What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ( whoever he was ) 2000 years ago could help us here and now — except in so far as his example helped us . ’ |
| 43 | This movement appeared more or less spontaneously and its emergence shows how this section of society still possessed its own individualism and independence . |
| 44 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 45 | So now when our crews came back from their missions and we heard snatches of their conversations about long lines of refugees , about cities being devastated , and miles and miles of fires , I remembered Kings Cross and could only feel pity for what these civilians were now enduring ; French , Dutch , German or whatever . |
| 46 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 47 | This is so even if your contract contains no specific restrictive covenants . |
| 48 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 49 | erm but I would say , on the whole , my guess is that there are many girls that perhaps could go into science and could make contributions to science but do n't do so simply because their families do n't understand it and the schools do n't support them . |
| 50 | The CICB said the woman were abused so long ago that their cases had to be considered under the pre-1979 rules which excluded compensation for offences committed by relatives living under the same roof . |
| 51 | If they slacken , they are told to " bull up " so loudly that their eardrums quiver . |
| 52 | He yelled something so loudly that my ear-drums rang . |
| 53 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 54 | Four intensive treatments from the Poly Kur Intensive Hair-Repair Treatment range — our tester said the one for dry hair worked so well that her hair went from sow 's ear to silk purse , and felt in much better condition immediately ( £3.45 each , from major Boots ' branches ) . |
| 55 | It happened so fast that her mind went into a spin , and she reeled dizzily , her gaze unfocused . |
| 56 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 57 | Outside young girls in pairs hold hands facing each other and , leaning back , they pirouette so fast that their shawls flare out from the tops of their heads . |
| 58 | My advice to other mums , though , is start as early as possible going to groups , like NCT New Mums , so he learns to socialise much earlier than my son did . ’ |
| 59 | Ken did n't look up until he 'd finished the story he was reading and only then when his lips had finally stopped moving . |
| 60 | She could only nod mutely , her hands gripping each other so tightly that her fingers went numb . |