Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft . |
| 2 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 3 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 4 | I am terrified and run home as fast as I can . |
| 5 | They grow and feed just as well as carp fed on a much higher protein diet , only it does not cost as much . |
| 6 | Gas imports will reach some 70 MTOE by 1990 but grow more slowly subsequently as gas supplies from Alaska increase . |
| 7 | For example , a particular view may appear convincing at first sight , but become much less so when more rigorous analysis exposes certain implicit assumptions , or hitherto unnoticed consequences . |