Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 So in some states it 's sixteen , in some states it 's eighteen , in some states twenty one er and Reagan thought it would be quite a good idea if they had uniformity across America er in which , you know , that they would raise the drinking age to twenty one er and this would then er reduce the incidence of teenage drunk driving and if you 've ever been in an American bar you will know you 're very often funnily enough they do n't ask me so much these days but you 're very often asked to prove your age , you know , er and you have to produce your driver 's licence and all the rest of it erm and so he increasing
2 The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age .
3 It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked .
4 The Lord has given me a heart for the Filipino people , although my work here finds me alongside so many other people .
5 I know I never met Bill , but from all you said of him he reminded me much too much of a man I once knew and loved .
6 ‘ You know , ’ he mused , gazing at her , ‘ for someone apparently so much in command of herself and the situation , you seem strangely nervous .
7 I also as many stores as possible
8 Well I quite like that county one , that 's plenty for me .
9 I have to admit I quite like this that 's punchy , that 's punchy , straight to the point and I think er you know it 's quaking with emotion .
10 I do n't anyway , would n't care if I never so much as sniffed it again .
11 Erm , I think probably I would support the recommendation as it stands because I do think that we need to have a trial to see if the end performance , and I very very much support the idea of the end performance , er in district .
12 I supposed , during those brief , heady moments after your heartbreaking apology that you had wanted to come to me tonight as much as I wanted you to come .
13 ‘ They did n't collect art simply for art 's sake , but also to demonstrate to those around them just how much power they possessed , that they could afford to hire the greatest names of the day .
14 But the truth is she needs them just as much .
15 What is more , God loves them just as much as he loves you , and he wants YOU to show them his love .
16 Having tried bran flakes you might well find that you like them just as much as ordinary cornflakes .
17 Foreign offices were affected by them just as much as service abroad .
18 He wo n't enjoy it , and you 'll be on pins waiting for him to show everyone just how much he hates it .
19 Suddenly it struck me just how much protection my past had given me , particularly the university lecturer bit of it .
20 It amazes me just how much was achieved , with such positive results , especially as we only dug from 2.15 to 6.00 P.m .
21 Here am I , working for a glamorous journalist in a huge house in Richmond , looking after her brat of a daughter ( four-year-old Charlotte , who has her good moments but is mostly involved in a longstanding game of wear-the-au-pair-to-a-frazzle ) , when my mother needs me just as much to look after her daughter , but does n't have a big house and ca n't afford to pay .
22 A Financial Times advertisement can produce a large response ( 70-100 ) of which only very few will be serious purchasers .
23 The whole Palestinian resistance was evicted from Jordan within a year , amid widespread bloodshed in which perhaps as many as 3,000 refugees perished .
24 A British voter aggrieved by being denied choice among candidates on party lists should ask himself just how much choice among candidates of the same party he is allowed under our present system and how much he would be allowed under the STV .
25 Leonard 's workrate overall produced 438 punches , of which just over half hit the target .
26 No doubt many users of the word ‘ introspection ’ are unaware of its Latin etymology ( from introspicio ‘ look within' ) , yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with ‘ inspect ’ , ‘ spectator ’ , ‘ spectacle ’ ; otherwise , why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space , treating introspection as analogous with sight , which reveals spatial extension , rather than with hearing , smell or taste , which just as much as consciousness of love or anger , hope or fear , exhibit temporal change without spatial extension ?
27 But nobody ever so much as hinted at the possibility that she might return .
28 Its straight up that side — ’ he waved his clipboard at the hill — 'but it twists this side .
29 A coat of arms for the Government would consist of a silver trough with Tory snouts rampant and in the corner there would be a cardboard box , symbolising the situation in which far too many of our people find themselves .
30 The fact was that almost nobody even as much as looked her way as she passed , but the tight knot of embarrassment stayed deep within her all the same .
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