Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One effect of the nation 's defeat was that many of the elements of ‘ Japanese spirit ’ , as well as the individuals who had most vocally espoused them , were discredited . |
| 2 | He was shifting in her mind suddenly , stepping out of the shadows she had so forcibly pushed him into in self-defence , and she realised her attraction to him was more than just physical . |
| 3 | Perhaps they once had the full response , but the ‘ hammer , hammer on the hard , high road ’ has long since dinned it out of them . |
| 4 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 5 | She was someone who minded her own business and had long since discovered it was seldom worth while to interfere with other people 's children . |
| 6 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 7 | Unaccustomed to such tenderness from this man who had so rarely shown her anything but contempt and passion , Maria found herself beginning to tremble , while a hot , smarting sensation afflicted her eyes and emotion tightened her throat . |
| 8 | They are so widely prescribed you may have taken them yourself . |
| 9 | The catering was so little used it was decided to suspend it and it was necessary to dig into the precious Henly legacy for repairs , wages , course upkeep and to off-set the catering losses . |
| 10 | I had n't read pornography until I wrote the book and when I read it I found it was so badly written it meant nothing to me . |
| 11 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 12 | A significant number in the survey had been so badly penalised they had left to form their own practices . |
| 13 | If he had n't been so badly injured we would n't have even attempted a rescue until later , but he was in a bad way , so we had no choice . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The original walls were so badly damaged they could not be saved and had to be pulled down because the stone had become non load-bearing . |
| 15 | THE Danish cargo vessel Bettina Danca , aground on Stroma in the Pentland Firth , is now so badly damaged it would be impossible to refloat her , Orkney 's harbour director , Captain Bob Sclater , said yesterday . |
| 16 | Well he 's so badly parked you see , he 's got to wait for both traffics to go whereas I could go easily |
| 17 | More than half of the seats checked in a survey were so badly anchored they would be useless in a crash . |
| 18 | The father of five 's face was so badly busted he had to be fitted with a metal cage to keep the bones in place until they set . |
| 19 | The bodies of the victims were so badly burned they could not be counted . |
| 20 | She was so badly burned she had to be identified by a palm print left at home . |
| 21 | The policeman was so badly burned he had to be identified from dental records . |
| 22 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 23 | Why he never troubled to publish his knowledge , I do not know , except that he was an aristocrat , and so perhaps considered it beneath him to publish . |
| 24 | These are the new rate books , we 've literally only had them through this week . |
| 25 | But it was a sign that those wartime conditions which had so much restricted him were being lifted when , in October 1946 , The Family Reunion was revived at the Mercury Theatre . |
| 26 | And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference . |
| 27 | Love is so highly charged you want to be left in peace or left with Andrew 's piece . |
| 28 | With that homely air of perplexed affection that had so long endeared her to Louisa 's heart , she gave voice to a remaining consideration . |
| 29 | Who would be most to blame but those who have so long suppressed it ? |
| 30 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |