Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb base] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant . |
| 2 | The objective is to start the budgeting process as late as possible in the preceding year while allowing budget-holders time to agree their budget before the start of the budget year . |
| 3 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 4 | Everything will be overshadowed by these events but we intend to go on making the week work as well as we can . |
| 5 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |
| 6 | The ‘ Lioretograph ’ cylinders were invented by the Frenchman Lioret as early as 1897 . |
| 7 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |