Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be found on the shaft of the penis and on the glans , but their predilection for a damp and warm environment makes them most often seen under the foreskin . |
| 2 | Perhaps ‘ second-joystick option ’ was the wrong phrase to use , but when joysticks were plugged into both ports , one of them most definitely DID N'T work ! |
| 3 | When you stop taking them altogether now do you mean ? |
| 4 | Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 5 | It 's important to me that you hear my side of the story — though God knows it does me little enough credit ! |
| 6 | The Irish have settled into this country and there are communities of them all over do they go and see your concerts and if they do that must mean a great deal to them I should think ? |
| 7 | I warn them all not to take her seriously , but they all do , poor chaps ! |
| 8 | I mean if you 're saying that by not communicating everybody 's performance gets better , let's tell them all not to talk to each-other |
| 9 | I told them all not to worry , I would go on working with you as soon as you were conscious and we would see our way together to a solution of the whole case . ’ |
| 10 | I would tell them all where to go . |
| 11 | She took the report , told them all where to find her if necessary and shut herself in her office . |
| 12 | Has anyone else noticed how , in the player interviews in the match programme , everyone so far has said without fail that the funniest player at Elland Road is our Jon . |
| 13 | So the programme 's the bit that you do , and then to them basically just cutting it , while it 's still down , you were still , the awkward thing is |
| 14 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 15 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 16 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 17 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 18 | They want him to detonate such a great burst of passion that all those millions of waverers upon whom so much depends will rush to support him . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , Ven , and I thought it was because you did n't trust me enough not to ask Lubor personal questions about you for my interview . ’ |
| 20 | No , I never saw lads er , er , the game that seemed most popular with us , I do n't know whether you have , it 's nothing only really hopping across the road . |
| 21 | Nothing so depressingly encapsulates the heart-rending decline from imperial majesty to federal anonymity which the nation has undergone in her lifetime , than a case devoted to stamps and banknotes . |
| 22 | at the moment we have nothing so just have to wait and see . |
| 23 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 24 | The idea of a God-given nature and destiny had the corollary that nothing so essentially predetermined could or should ever change . |
| 25 | Virtually nothing so far had been published on its birds . |
| 26 | Nothing so far has disproved the contention that the classical Greeks did not even know the name of the Jews . |
| 27 | It is nothing so ever to do with that Australian or Cockney mechanic . ’ |
| 28 | But Lewis 's conception of the book changed as he himself changed , and nothing much more got written until 193 1 . |
| 29 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 30 | Certain individuals stand out as more perceptive , sensitive , far-seeing than the rest of us , and we recognize their value judgements as maturer than our own ; but they differ from experts in that we can learn from them only how to evaluate more maturely ourselves . |