Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 2 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 3 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 4 | Similarly , the halt and lame , vividly portrayed in Les invalides in book 2 of the same collection ( 1716–17 ) , are surely destined to proceed slowly rather than at the ‘ fast triple time ’ suggested by Geoffrey Chew in the article ‘ Notation ’ ( 111 , 4 ) in New Grove , where the opening bars of this piece are reproduced in facsimile ( xiii , p.376 ) . |
| 5 | Two tall young men in finely cut gallibayas and white scarves asked rather formally if they might walk with us , then lapsed into shy silence . |
| 6 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |
| 7 | The frustration turned to anger on more than one occasion . |
| 8 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 9 | Despite the spread of private pensions , 75 per cent of pensioners lived on less than £3,500 a year . |
| 10 | Joseph Hanway in 1766 observed that the " mass of people " lived on less than £5 a year , and considered that when provision prices were " moderate " , husbandmen supported a family of three or four children on 1s to 1s 6d ( 5-7½p ) a day . |
| 11 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 12 | Ironically , too , it could turn out that much less goes on physically when John sees Mary and tells Dick about it , than when John gives Mary a black eye that tells Dick of his blow . |
| 13 | What is often dismissed rather contemptuously as baggy trousers and tunic by English people exists in fact in a variety of styles . |
| 14 | learn how to locate information in books and , where available , databases , sometimes drawing on more than one source , and how to pursue an independent line of enquiry . |
| 15 | Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks . |
| 16 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 17 | The Stealer loped slowly away as though injured , dodging from one steel column to the next . |
| 18 | SPURS star Gordon Durie hopes to carry on today where he left off with new striking partner Teddy Sheringham . |
| 19 | She was wearing what appeared to be a borrowed jacket in place of her own heavy overcoat and shawl , something light enough to allow her to carry on even though the sun might go behind a cloud every now and again . |
| 20 | One thing I will commend you for , it took a lot of ball to carry on even when you had lost the thread . |
| 21 | But the site prepared to let me work , to carry on then as s they ma and I would n't claim my pension until I 'd finished . |
| 22 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 23 | His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else 's concentration . |
| 24 | Oh no no no I 'd had this hidden somewhere else before you see . |
| 25 | On a final afternoon in which lesser mortals might have wanted to run for cover the European team fought on even though at times its causes seemed hopeless . |
| 26 | Garland , however , seems to go rather further than this in suggesting that , in Britain at least , the emergent prison system never really embodied a ‘ reformative ’ alternative to classicism and neoclassicism at all . |
| 27 | Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch . |
| 28 | Others agreed with the idea of a sanctuary , but suggested that it should be situated somewhere else where there would be no conflicts with recreational fishing , prompting Steve Dawson to draw the analogy of ‘ putting a plaster on your bum to treat a boil on your forehead . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why did she stay on here if she dislikes him so much ? ’ |
| 30 | Now multiply that by two then er , zero on rather than the two . |