Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they like sentence me straight away for doing something like I 'd think to myself is it worth it ? |
| 2 | There is bound always to be a considerable vested interest in the status quo , particularly amongst the most entrenched and powerful individuals in any institution : the way things are generally suits them well enough . |
| 3 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 4 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I damn well have . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I damn well am ! |
| 7 | Of course I bloody well did . |
| 8 | ( Of course I bloody well did ! |
| 9 | For my part I very much think so . |
| 10 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 11 | During my time as a gamekeeper I almost always had a supply of fresh meat available to give them . |
| 12 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 13 | Until now the greeting I most often heard had been G'Tag or Morgen . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm still struggling with my driver but I 'm hitting my one-iron plenty far enough and putting quite well , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Platey particles such as mica flakes may readily pass diagonally through meshes which more nearly spherical grains of identical intermediate diameters can not pass as a result of the length of their short diameters . |
| 16 | Her cotton dress was rent almost from the armpit to the hem and as she leaned forward to bring a saucer of water to the lips of a wounded man , the Collector glimpsed three polished ribs and the shrunken globe of her breast ; modesty was one of the many considerations which no longer troubled her . |
| 17 | Mozart 's 17 piano sonatas also show Haydn 's influence , but , like much of his music , works such as No 8 in A minor and No 14 in C minor betray a depth of emotion which only rarely invests Haydn 's music . |
| 18 | He thought of the future which no longer contained him but which he could still control . |
| 19 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps I should start by telling you something I 'll not be talking about and that is the subject of financial resources and how Lynda 's getting on in her discussions with chief secretary , I do n't suppose that comes to you as any surprise but I shall I not be talking on that but let me say that we remain committed strongly to a substantial aid programme which as far as possible is directed towards the poorest countries . |
| 21 | Again , we have put in a letter from an agent which quite clearly shows in his professional opinion , that a new settlement would be successful . |
| 22 | It was these brilliant architectural triumphs which so much impressed foreign visitors , many of whom had a professional interest and who came to learn as well as admire . |
| 23 | The uncertainty of catastrophic or chronic illness and the costs incurred means that no developed country leaves health care entirely to the market , even in the United States which most nearly fits the New Right model . |
| 24 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 25 | She strangled the reply which so nearly escaped her lips . |
| 26 | A substantially similar conclusion was reached from another very recent study which again specifically focused on the possible relationship between creativity and the affective features of psychosis . |
| 27 | To decide what precise details in a situation are important it is necessary to use a methodology which either systematically manipulates those details present or else one which provides information about the details of the stimuli which were in fact remembered . |
| 28 | But then we have to move with Ulysses to a huge spinning-top of words which defies such judgements and leaves us clutching at apparently familiar images which so sooner appear than they are gone . |
| 29 | We have seen the ways in which Sartre 's Critique shows how totalization can not work without a movement of self-transcendence , a repeated interpolation of an excess beyond the totality which paradoxically then means that the totality can no longer be a totality . |
| 30 | Both these instances are of verbal trickery , using a form of words which most often have one meaning but which , in strict logic , can have another . |