Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tess no longer attached any importance to Clare 's interest in her . |
| 2 | He spoke of his incentive to art as being that of ‘ exhilarated despair ’ and from nearly all of his paintings there emerges a scream as chilling as that which Munch so memorably depicted 99 years ago . |
| 3 | Lucker and myself lie together idly exploring each other 's bodies with the curiosity of two baby elephants who are too young to take advantage of what they have found . |
| 4 | We hear so much talk these days about green issues . |
| 5 | I do n't quite know what 's , what happened , because I remember very well amending these details the last time it came to policy and resources , and that was agreed , because the changes you have made use the working , wording of the Thamesdown scheme , it seems to me far better , erm , as you have moved it , because er , very many people who are elderly , who are sixty-nine years or more or less do n't need any supervision at all . |
| 6 | In fact I had it six for talking in class , I remember very vividly having six strokes of the strap on my hand . |
| 7 | Those surfaces you dismiss so readily have hard edges . |
| 8 | Amiloride only modestly inhibits ileal HCO 3 - secretion , suggesting that Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport may be the more important of the two mechanisms . |
| 9 | I do very much appreciate this invitation although , for another year I 'm afraid , I must tender my apologies . |
| 10 | Double sets of wheels pull together like centipede rolling stock . |
| 11 | So put down , I 've only just missed two things out on health , there was the breathing and erm should be standing in for me on all four feet behind but not four it 's quite normal |
| 12 | ‘ I 've only just met these people , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 14 | We 've only just started this year ! |
| 15 | ‘ I 've only just had one slug of that . |
| 16 | I 've only ever made one record , a Christmas song called ‘ Tonight for Santa Claus ’ . |
| 17 | I I I take it a great er , challenge now , I 've only ever lost three delegates , only three delegates ever walked out on course on me , so , do n't , you know , do n't ruin my |
| 18 | I read in a newspaper recently that he 'd said , ‘ I 've only ever done one chat show and I 'll never do another one . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've only ever known one way to play the game , and that is to pass the ball on the floor . |
| 20 | And I 've only ever trusted one person completely in my life . |
| 21 | I 've only ever had one job . |
| 22 | WELL , we 've just about come full circle . |
| 23 | Eisenhower 's feelings at the start of the Anglo-French action against Egypt were strikingly summed up in one notable outburst : I 've just never seen great powers make such a complete mess and botch of things … |
| 24 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 25 | Despite the current fear of AIDS and the moral backlash increasingly in evidence in the late eighties , most callers now take far less persuading that homosexuality can be part of a valid lifestyle . |
| 26 | So I I fucking get it right , say something , I was right pissed off by this time , next , I , I , I stood out and step forward fucking get closer sort of thing and say something and that was it , . |
| 27 | Right well as soon as you can come to me and say , I 've no longer got that amount |
| 28 | It 's to help keep a better check on spending after complaints that some credit card outlets take too long getting signed slips to card issuers . |
| 29 | I 've never even seen this man Pratesi . ’ |
| 30 | I 've never before seen cadaveric spasm in a case of homicidal manual throttling , and it 's interesting . |