Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 32 | I merely make you angry . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 34 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
| 35 | Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses . |
| 36 | The fact that a water is potable does not , however , necessarily make it suitable for textile purposes . |
| 37 | Simply to say ‘ I was going to speak to you about a wonderfully deserving and little-known charity but the producers have only given me twenty-two seconds because they 're cutting straight to a sponsored lard-slice in Abergavenny , so I wo n't . ’ |
| 38 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
| 39 | . He 's only given you one of those . |
| 40 | I 've only given you one sprout so you 're alright . |
| 41 | We have all heard it many , many times . |
| 42 | ENOUGH TO DRIVE US ALL BANANAS |
| 43 | ‘ I hope you 're sober enough to drive us all home , that 's all . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ They will merely make it easy for the Government to mobilize the military and send the settlers deeper into the area ’ . |
| 45 | Is this bridge still strong enough to carry us all ? |
| 46 | The genie comes out and goes you , I can only grant you one wish , think carefully . |
| 47 | I want personally to thank you all for coming . |
| 48 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 49 | But wanting only frustrated him more . |
| 50 | However , I should perhaps make it clear that the position I have outlined is a very extreme form of inductivism . |
| 51 | And here I ought to perhaps make it clear that the circles I provided on the sheet which was distributed , allow for a density of twenty houses per hectare . |
| 52 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
| 53 | You go along to see him first thing tomorrow . ’ |
| 54 | David heard about that , went along to see it one day , and that 's how the partnership with Lindsay started . ’ |
| 55 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 56 | ‘ It 'll only make them arrogant . ’ |
| 57 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 58 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |
| 59 | Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse . |
| 60 | Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’ |