Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 2 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 3 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 4 | As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate . |
| 5 | This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it . |
| 6 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
| 7 | Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 . |
| 8 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 9 | A related question is whether each processor should execute its own programme , or if instructions from one programme should be broadcast to all processors , thereby allowing them all to execute the same programme with different data . |
| 10 | The noise of a lock operating somewhere made them both look along the companionway . |
| 11 | He eventually shared them all out . |
| 12 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 13 | Many writers are unnecessarily pessimistic about the value of archaeology in the understanding of exchange systems in the absence of literary evidence ; Wood points out that ‘ distribution maps rarely make it possible to distinguish between trade , exchange and plunder ’ ( 1983 , p. 3 ) . |
| 14 | In fact , computing people add yet another layer to this stack of definitions , though they very rarely make it explicit . |
| 15 | but er they were a bit of a nuisance because more than once , I must admit I erm , I collided with them which rather made me aware of their presence but anyway erm , then just beyond I am sorry , on the erm right hand side , a little way down this corridor , were the stairs up to the next floor which was in those days Public Health |
| 16 | LORD Ted Willis has introduced an extraordinary bill into the House of Lords which would effectively make it illegal for British shops to sell any audio or video tape recorder . |
| 17 | He was still doing it over an hour later , frantically trying to remember everything and wishing he had somewhere to write it all down , when there was a sound of feet running up the stairs . |
| 18 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 19 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 20 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 21 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 22 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 23 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 24 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
| 25 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
| 26 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's so much , as you say , and everyone else seems to them to be doing well enough to enjoy it all . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 29 | Cos I took Nicky in to see her first because our Nicky 's one of those that erm takes a long time to get to know anybody ? |
| 30 | ‘ I must apologize , ’ he began , ‘ for not coming in to see you this morning , as I said I would . |