Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felipe eyed Maggie sceptically and spoke as little as possible . |
| 2 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 3 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 4 | Long and segmented , moving slowly and coiling up tightly when disturbed . |
| 5 | I usually follow fashion very slowly and creep in just as it starts to look dated , but then I think that 's the way I should do it . |
| 6 | This second wave struck more rapidly and spread more broadly than its predecessor . |
| 7 | However , the latter point fails to take account of the fact that rape is committed even if there is no ejaculation , and even if the woman is infertile , and it has been strongly argued that ‘ penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration ’ . |
| 8 | Penetration involving the penis , vagina or anus is perceived differently and regarded more seriously than other forms of penetration . |
| 9 | Now when the film 's over I 've got one or two more questions to ask you so I want you to watch very carefully and listen very carefully as we go through the film . |
| 10 | Tests have been regularly carried out since the early eighties to discover whether those who exercise regularly or who have jobs which involve a considerable amount of physical exertion are able to think more clearly and remember more accurately than their IQ counterparts who lead a fairly sedentary life . |
| 11 | In fact , Labov 's propensity to set out patterns in his data in a highly visual way is quite in the spirit of exploratory statistics ; but the data are not presented as comprehensively nor analysed as thoroughly as they would be using Tukey 's principles . |
| 12 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 13 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 14 | ‘ The French mistletoe ( exactly the same species ) is cut earlier and dries out more because of the distance it comes , ’ he says . |
| 15 | Since many negotiations seem to break down at the implementation stage it is often worth making a prior commitment to monitor progress jointly and to meet again shortly after implementation is supposed to start . |
| 16 | I locked the shed again and jogged as far as the bridge while I got my breath back . |