Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The first edition of his textbook , intended mainly for lawyers and police officers , became widely popular also among scientists and technicians interested in forensic problems .
2 Transjordan 's capital , Amman , became predominantly Palestinian almost overnight .
3 Instead of letting John 's mum do it , consequently he got dead upset so
4 ‘ I do n't know if I have the strength to hear it now , ’ she murmured , ‘ having heard so much already . ’
5 ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about .
6 She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’
7 This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape .
8 Now Jesus came to town one day and everyone — including Zacchaeus — wanted to get a look at this healer who they 'd heard so much about .
9 ‘ I understand that over 500 students altogether took part in the Guild 's first course and it is good to see so many here today to collect their certificates .
10 Not that their newly re-upholstered troubled-funk rhythms would n't make converts of you all on the spot , but it 's heartening to see so many so attached to , well , so little .
11 After seeing so many beatifically smiling faces of Mao , Chou , and Hua , as well as many jolly workers engaged in various agricultural and industrial pursuits , it was quite a relief to enter a large room the walls of which were absolutely covered with vitriolic cartoons against the gang of four .
12 The two small cars seated only 32 inside , and it has been speculated that they were intended to draw the trailers during summer operation .
13 She became suddenly aware again of the man sitting beside her .
14 Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen .
15 Sh that th the people were willing to make promises that they did not wish to keep that they would not keep and I in all sincerity could not let them do that , and they went away extremely hurt and that particular situation unfortunately became extremely tragic later on .
16 No I , I got so much here I thought it would be fair to with you .
17 Mr Dods , of Coatham House Farm , Coatham Mundeville , said : ‘ When I was young I would barely get on a bus on my own but I got so much out of Young Farmers .
18 The poetry got much better too .
19 Use of a highly similar construct for the second axis means that the resulting map represents only one rather than two dimensions of judgment .
20 The stain lightened slowly to reveal lowering clouds moving in from the north ; the sea became less ink-like too , and showed itself as a mess of enormous and ever-moving swells picked out here and there by off-white skeins of spray .
21 Yes , yes , do you think that one of the reasons that they , that they became less popular apart from fashion was that , that they , erm wo that , that you had , the way that you cleaned them , that they caught the dust or
22 Twenty-one years after the end of the First World War the British people were subjected to a second war , which , while it produced only half as many British military casualties as the first , struck more radically at the lives of ordinary civilians .
23 Things have altered so much now .
24 ‘ You 're just making that up , the way you make so much up .
25 It seems that they make so many now that they do n't have the same
26 ‘ You hide so much here , ’ said Grainne .
27 The ostler , whose accent was almost unintelligible , muttered that on the night the murders had been committed , I had been hustled dead drunk out of the tavern and into the hands of strangers waiting in the yard .
28 Well , you 're sitting looking very smart here in a suit , which I suspect is made out of organic fibres and the tie , which I suspect is made out or artificial organic fibres , and the shirt looks remarkably artificial too .
29 You do n't need so much now anyway .
30 Because they 're becoming so obscure now , that they 're becoming an e exercise in erm obscures or obscurity or whatever in the same way into the same appalling state as the annual report disease is becoming a design competition not an annual report presentation of financial figures .
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