Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |
| 62 | She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh , what a struggle she had to show ii . |
| 63 | ‘ All else failing , a man 's character may be inferred from nothing so surely as the jest he takes in bad part . ’ |
| 64 | Therefore he keeps walking , ‘ thinking of nothing so long as he could refrain from thinking ’ . |
| 65 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 66 | The children all agreed that the adults were well behaved , embarrassing them only once when they stood up to sing ‘ I 'm A Little Teapot ’ , with actions ! |
| 67 | Only thirty-seven were full-scale royal commissions , although Harold Wilson splashed out on them so liberally that even the Great and Good began to complain that the currency had been devalued . |
| 68 | I identified with them so strongly that I began to see humans who hunted animals as the enemy . |
| 69 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 70 | However , they came across two of his friends and beat them so badly that they later died . |
| 71 | ‘ Well , as we were looking in , we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us , and sent the dogs after us . |
| 72 | At least , Peter had found them disastrous , and he would find them so again if Anna chose to try and charm Colonel Richardson out of his opinion of working clergy wives . |
| 73 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 74 | But , of course , many of our means of communication are instinctive and we have practised them so frequently since childhood that we choose the means of encoding a message almost without thought . |
| 75 | Most important of all , he did them so well that those who saw him then still today , thirty-seven years on , speak of him with awe . |
| 76 | Also , more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool , so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening , William Robinson , in his classic The English Flower Garden ( 1895 ) scarcely applies now : ‘ Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens ; some have a mania for artificial water , the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they can not have its good effects . |
| 77 | They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I … |
| 78 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 79 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 80 | I 'm shouting at the 4th one not to do them so tight because I could n't move my fingers and they just told me to shut my mouth and go quietly . |
| 81 | You can love them so much that you eat them all up , then there is no more affair . |
| 82 | These rolls were a speciality of Baden , and the people of Zurich liked them so much that a special train used to leave Baden early every morning so that they were in Zurich fresh and in time for breakfast . |
| 83 | What happened under Winchelsey in 1297–1305 endangered both church and realm , threatening to sever them so sharply and deeply that the church would end up a wholly dependent , deeply suspected and despised branch of royal government . |
| 84 | She was kneading the gloves in her lap , gripping them so tightly that her knuckles showed white . |
| 85 | I was in no mood to stop them so long as I got my mail . |
| 86 | While , therefore , he accepted the idea , of an invisible church of the elect , Whitgift rejected any suggestion that it should be synonymous with the visible church of this world , arguing that : ‘ We must walk in those ways that God hath appointed to bring them [ the reprobate ] to salvation which is to feed them continually and watch over them so long as they are in danger . ’ |
| 87 | We have bread and bacon and butter that 's good , With oatmeal and salt that is wholesome for food ; We have soap and candles whereby to give light That you may work by them so long as you have light . |
| 88 | They really do n't care where they send them so long as call up up Edingley Hill what |
| 89 | He went and p pushed me in somehow or other you know . |
| 90 | But they took me in then because one of my mates in the London Scottish was in the Squad . |