Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 2 | But what is certain is that the democratic principle — that people should , as far as possible , make or participate in making the decisions that affect them most closely and importantly — could beneficially be applied far more widely in modern societies than It presently is . |
| 3 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 4 | The Elms looked at them rather disapprovingly and then turned back to Tealtaoich . |
| 5 | We 'll skin them right here and preserve their hides so they can be shipped home and stuffed . |
| 6 | Why do n't you say fuck them right off and they 'll think that you . |
| 7 | If anyone asked him what had happened on a certain occasion he was n't able to tell them right off because he never put his memories into words . |
| 8 | If anyone puts a verse like that on my headstone , I 'm warning them right now that I 'll get up and haunt them for ever . |
| 9 | As they neared fulfilment , he rolled them slowly sideways until his body was covering hers . |
| 10 | Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man . |
| 11 | The petrochemicals business employs some 3500 people on Teesside , of whom rather less than 100 are in the headquarters group . |
| 12 | There 's nothing to prevent you from unburdening yourself to me right here and now if you wish to do so . ’ |
| 13 | By this time , the College appreciated me rather more and there was a different bursar . |
| 14 | ‘ Just go back to Lévy tomorrow and sell the other vase , ’ Jean-Claude told me rather conspiratorially when Félix had gone to his bucket . |
| 15 | No , does n't fit on it 's stopped recording change the change the tape so a su but going back to that she was so convinced that it was gon na be a heck of a job that she would save us time by taking all the clothes out putting them somewhere else and I said it 'll take us three minutes |
| 16 | Er we we make that quite plain to them all right that there might be a delay . |
| 17 | I would have got them all right except for |
| 18 | What chance have they got of getting them all right when they can only inspect houses from the road outside ? ’ |
| 19 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 20 | ‘ What surprised the crew was that Michael led the insistence on the part of the actors to record both plays again , having done them extremely well but feeling they could be done better . |
| 21 | Carcases left uneaten attract sexton beetles which bury them extremely quickly and may even move them short distances ( Milne & Milne , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ My love , ’ he said , ‘ what was so urgent that you had to summon me so soon after we parted yesterday afternoon ? |
| 23 | I get a tremendous kick from the creative aspect of life , and I think it is this that keeps me so well and full of vitality . ’ |
| 24 | But they loved me so passionately that I had a secure base to my life . ’ |
| 25 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ And the third man who … said he loved me … ’ and her voice faltered at the words ‘ … loved me so dearly that on hearing the slanders of my assailant he believed every word that he said , and none of mine . |
| 27 | Who needs to speak to me so urgently that they lie me down on myriads of pebbles by a sun-scorched sea in the southern part of England ? |
| 28 | I 'm not very good at listening to God , but between one and three am God spoke to me so powerfully and painfully that I have never felt so broken before him ( and still do ) . |
| 29 | When he turned to look at her , the firelight cast shadows across his body , so that she saw his arms not as arms , but as wings … and they will enfold me so strongly and so sweetly that I shall never want to be free … |
| 30 | She left this house to us , and an allowance to Emily so long as she did n't marry , and one to me so long as I stayed with her . |