Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are obviously still concerned that there allegations of pushing drugs and we intend to monitor closely any future raves at the Ulster hall . ’ |
| 2 | In 1967 the Brooklands Society was formed to preserve as much of the area as possible . |
| 3 | The Home Office will want to gather as much evidence of good practice as possible ’ . |
| 4 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 5 | Blinds on their own can fit any atmosphere , particularly if windows are awkward , small or you did not want to lose too much light . |
| 6 | Give this message to others in a brief , clear way : ‘ I need to talk to you about office manning ’ ; ‘ I do n't want to go away this weekend ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want to go away this weekend . ’ |
| 8 | Repeat using as much of the flesh as possible . |
| 9 | And erm , we hardly got to see as much of each other , because we were like , in this group of ten people , and then , and so like one time we skied off piste , and we just had this massive snowball fight off piste , it was like really funny . |
| 10 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |
| 11 | Jokes that have to be explained lose nearly all their force , and no one ever laughs spontaneously at the explication of a joke ; even the terms we have at our disposal in English to discuss literature of this kind — comedy , humour , amusement , ridicule — are full of ambiguities demanding pedantic caution on the part of anyone who uses them in an analytical way . |
| 12 | We intend to carry forward this move towards greater openness . |
| 13 | Incidentally , as pupating involves yet another skin change , when the caterpillars are retreating into their chrysalises , the tank is littered with the bizarre sight of what can best be described as ‘ empty caterpillars ’ . |
| 14 | He was greatly cheered to find so many young architects designing the new classical buildings of which he so much approved . |
| 15 | Writing in the February issue of the Lloyds Bank Economic Bulletin , he says : ‘ The restoration of financial balance will mean that , far from there being a credit crunch , banks are likely to continue to find very little net demand for loans from companies . ’ |
| 16 | As they are beaten by the waves the exposed limestone skeletons are broken up , and the sand thus formed smothers yet more areas of reef . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the Wheatsheaf at Frooms Hill in Hereford and the Bull Ring in Kingstone failed to attract high enough bids . |
| 18 | I do n't want to stand here all afternoon being laughed at like a cunt . |
| 19 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 20 | These different views combine to provide so much more detail of the course , the problems faced en route to the green , the success rate of various shots and the difficulties faced when putting . |
| 21 | Do n't you want to know that much ? ’ |
| 22 | He 'll want to know about half that bank account , fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 23 | He wo n't cast his own horoscope , because he does n't want to know too much about the future . |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't want to know too many details . |
| 25 | ‘ Why do you want to know so much where they are ? ’ |
| 26 | Great Warriors did n't want to attract too much attention to themselves when they were trying to think their way out of their penalty period in the ultimate war . |
| 27 | For understandable reasons , neither side is prepared to proclaim the change too loudly : the left hates admitting defeat , while the right does not want to offend too many loyal party members by appearing triumphalist . |
| 28 | I point out the empty ‘ shells ’ of others on the grassy cliff-top , and explain that this is the work of the local great black-backed gulls , who seem to enjoy cracking open these echinoderms ( which are really modified starfish ) to get at the small amount of ‘ meat ’ inside . |
| 29 | I do n't want to appear too much of a glutton . ’ |
| 30 | A seller who wishes to exclude liability for third party infringement can do so to some extent by relying on SGA 1979 , s 12(3) and ( 4 ) or SGSA 1982 , s 2(3) and ( 4 ) , ( contracting to pass only such title as the seller may have , subject to disclosure of known encumbrances and a warranty of no interference in quiet possession by the seller ) . |