Example sentences of "[pron] and [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd then be able to choose between , say , Economics I , Business Law I , Accounting I , Industrial Relations I and so on . |
| 2 | Isabel 's gaze slid nervously away from his and back again . |
| 3 | This is what is meant by claiming that scientific knowledge is ‘ public ’ knowledge — that is , that it is in principle testable and verifiable by anyone/everyone and not merely a matter of private belief . |
| 4 | But , in another sense , she is full only of other people 's emptinesses , and so her own remains , mingled with theirs and therefore all the more difficult to deny . |
| 5 | No one , so far as I know , has ever questioned such a suspension on the ground that it could not be done unless he is given notice of the charge and an opportunity of defending himself and so forth . |
| 6 | In the following sentence , the effect introduced by the use of the to infinitive is even more striking : ( 190 ) … what he saw there made him falter and repeat himself and then suddenly to explode into a cry . |
| 7 | as if suddenly he might not be able to help himself and suddenly right there in the middle of The Bar he would say out loud : Fuck me . |
| 8 | ‘ They take young grandpas , ’ said Linda , amazed and overjoyed he 'd had the idea for himself and still not able to get over her daughter 's news . |
| 9 | Y'know if you wan na have a go , you wan na say something , then you make quite subtle gestures to catch the eye of somebody and so on . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry I told ya and not only that I bought that camera the other week did n't I ? |
| 11 | And he 's been under somebody or other at Charing Cross Hospital I , who has a rather different approach to the whole thing , many other people 's involve rest and doing nothing and so on and so forth . |
| 12 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |
| 13 | Better to go in to nothing and then not go and it is something . |
| 14 | As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of … |
| 15 | To read me and think you understand me and yet not to understand me . |
| 16 | I could not think what it was that could be for me and yet so heavy . |
| 17 | Septimus was younger than me and not very big and he could scarcely carry this big lovely dolly . |
| 18 | Derecognition , a word that is new to me and perhaps also to the English language , can be achieved only if the amount of benefit and risk retained by the seller ( not always the originator as seems to have been assumed ) is insignificant or immaterial ( on a case by case basis ) . |
| 19 | Not Connie , not me and certainly not anybody in Washington . |
| 20 | Fortunately , my spirit was less of a coward than me and quite simply refused to roll over and play dead . |
| 21 | ‘ He was much bigger than me and very fast , so I think I did well to get a 14–9 points verdict over the three rounds . |
| 22 | Mirror , mirror on the wall who was the fairest of them all , well okay not me and maybe not you either , but it does n't stop us trying does it ? |
| 23 | My friend was about 50 feet above me and almost out of sight in the fog , when I heard him yell at me to ‘ come and see this ’ . |
| 24 | He stood with his hands and his hat on the counter which separated the waiting-room from the office part , looking straight at me and never away . |
| 25 | I lived in one of the rougher parts of Manchester , and was chased by gangs , had bottles thrown at me and once inadvertently put a gang to rout . |
| 26 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 27 | Next , he started slapping me and then finally actually punching me . |
| 28 | Lili looked sideways at me and then away . |
| 29 | He looked at me and then away again . |
| 30 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |