Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fall in commodity prices means that Third World countries must produce more to earn the same amount . |
| 2 | It is ironic that Kent , such a devoted follower of his master , should have only had the fifth edition , and not the ‘ most nearly perfect of all ’ on which to base his teaching . |
| 3 | maths I might has well put the full name mathematic s ooh mathematics even |
| 4 | Instead of coming down on players who , like Bryan Gunn , the Norwich goalkeeper , give rational views of incidents to newspapers , the FA might do better to examine the irrational attitudes created by some of those running the teams . |
| 5 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 6 | But Budworth was an honest man , and , as such , felt a compunction for the errors in which he might have unthinkingly involved the innocent and unsuspecting female . |
| 7 | The tragedy is that , at the moment when a massive explosion of agitation in Britain for a Soviet alliance might have substantially shortened the coming war , the popular movement was inert . |
| 8 | She might come away understanding the first part of the company 's title , but not the second . |
| 9 | You 'll come away convinced the new Senator CD has just one engine . |
| 10 | They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches . |
| 11 | And if anyone had noticed , maybe I could have just tossed the whole matter off in a casual way : ‘ Oh , that … it 's nothing much … ’ |
| 12 | I could have just bought the goddamned thing out of a coin machine in the men 's john . ’ |
| 13 | I was upstairs with the other two , she could have just taken the other one |
| 14 | Yeah he 'd have probably blown the bloody thing up ! |
| 15 | She 'd have surely sensed the other woman . |
| 16 | Fourteen-year-old RACHEL SEATON was so bored she 'd have rather spent the 30 minutes doing her homework . |
| 17 | They do n't ca they do n't care I used to say that a if I said that to Steven pack it in , somebody will hear , he 'd say well open the bloody windows and let them hear ! |
| 18 | Hopes were rising that the shoppers who rushed out for bargains on offer in the January sales may have finally triggered the long-awaited recovery in consumer spending . |
| 19 | Half the teenage population of Oxford used to come here to see the American wounded |
| 20 | In the female the glands of the labia may be involved by infection , and the process may spread upwards to involve the fallopian tubes with acute or chronic non-gonococcal salpingitis . |
| 21 | From what you said , I did n't think that you were very settled , so I am sending you this note via Mum — I suppose you may go home to see the new baby , anyway ? |
| 22 | It was stressed that sufficient air power would remain behind to protect the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 23 | Part of herself , she thought , was killed , a tender , budding part ; the daisy-crowned young girl who would stay behind to haunt the old house , to appear in mirrors where the new owner expected the reflection of his own face , to flash whitely on dark nights out of the prickly core of the apple tree . |
| 24 | Although under no illusions , therefore , that reactionary French and British governments would act resolutely to counter the imminent fascist threat , Nizan remained confident at this stage that international security could be maintained . |
| 25 | Rather than revel in the recovery in house prices , therefore , a bold government would act now to prevent the next house-price boom , and thereby help make the longed-for economic recovery more durable . |
| 26 | Those who have n't would do well to browse the informative manual — an impressive publication liberally sprinkled with graphic illustrations of the program 's functions and various points to note . |
| 27 | Mr Major would do well to get the bad news out of the way as soon as he can . |
| 28 | They would appear also to overlook the widening gap between the more traditional ‘ cathedral ’ ethos and the comparative informality of many parish church services . |
| 29 | But if you 'd got enough fabric , you would have just done the same |
| 30 | Most people around here would have just looked the other way . ’ |