Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 2 | ‘ We should get there as soon as possible , for everybody 's sake , ’ said the Thing . |
| 3 | Scientists at the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) reported that a link might exist as long ago as 1968 . |
| 4 | I 'll do the business with Sorley and I 'll come straight back here so you can do the run proper . |
| 5 | Often we may equate them with more formal partnerships which fall by the wayside after only a short existence ; except that in their breakdown the feelings of guilt , humiliation and bitterness may occur even more strongly than when an " honest " attempt is felt to have been made . |
| 6 | He writes that , having ‘ grabbed ’ Bosnia at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 , the Habsburgs ‘ soon demonstrated that they could rule just as viciously as the Turks . ’ |
| 7 | Intermediates could see even less well than their imperfect ancestors , and it is no consolation that they are building better eyesight for their remote descendants ! |
| 8 | Cruising along the crest , we could see almost as far as the coast to one side and over Bilsdale mast to the Cleveland Hills on the other . |
| 9 | We could slide together as easily as a train halts by the platform . |
| 10 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 11 | If the theory is correct , trials involving HIV infected patients could go ahead as early as next year . |
| 12 | There is concern that cracks in some 747 fuse pins could spread much more quickly than was previously realised . |
| 13 | And everybody could get home very quickly because of the railway stations that were there . |
| 14 | The women would take Nessie back to the house and they 'd all meet there again for something to eat and they 'd start all over again where they left off . |
| 15 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 16 | I would gladly have come to you , but I thought we could talk more freely here than in an hotel . |
| 17 | Dealers would bluff even more audaciously than clients . |
| 18 | We are currently considering all viewpoints , and I can assure my hon. Friend that when we are in a position to announce our final decision , we shall do so as speedily as possible . |
| 19 | But there was so much to do , and it would take twice as long if Nathan had to do it all himself . |
| 20 | He says his customers would go further afield only if discounting was ferocious , and in such an event believes that prices would soon start going back up as one or more of the big chains went out of business . |
| 21 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
| 22 | Through the layers of their clothing she could feel Penry 's heart beating steadily against her back , and dreaded the moment of parting which would come all too soon when they reached journey 's end in Chastlecombe . |
| 23 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 24 | Let's get as far away as we can . ’ |
| 25 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 26 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 27 | In practice , this situation will arise only very rarely if a regime of symptom control and no more has been adopted . |
| 28 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 29 | Your salary will grow just as quickly as your skills and responsibilities — and that could be very fast indeed . |
| 30 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |