Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only had four laps practice so I suppose I did all right finishing sixth . |
| 2 | If he , the Home Secretary feels that Wiltshire 's so badly funded next year , if he 's a caring and considerate Home Secretary , then he 'll put more money into Wiltshire and provide more police officers for Wiltshire . |
| 3 | Just watch , I 'll put the Teletext on , out of all the races there was one there King 's Fountain , first , it had , it had only just come first and I 'd switched it on , I went wow |
| 4 | She watched as his eyes fell to her mouth and knew what could so easily come next . |
| 5 | Among them are problems of air and water quality and waste in rapidly expanding third world cities . |
| 6 | It must be deployed also on the hitherto comparatively neglected first four years of the reign , that brief part of her life which is the only one which can be considered in any way typical for a reigning monarch . |
| 7 | Patios lend themselves in particular to herb cultivation because they are so often sited next to the house and facing the sun . |
| 8 | Ben Hanbury 's three-year-old completely missed the break in that 16-runner event and in the circumstances did extremely well to finish sixth , 12½ lengths behind Musicale . |
| 9 | She really could not , under the circumstances , be expected to love Angharad , thought Lydia , remembering the hostility and anger which Elizabeth had so briefly exhibited last night . |
| 10 | The man who , up to then , had experienced 18 years as a player at the highest level revealed how the sack made him determined to prove he had not suddenly become second rate . |
| 11 | For you , it is indisputable that the rights of all its inhabitants are equal , and that human beings do not necessarily come first . |
| 12 | Rosemary not only took 3rd place with this contribution but was sufficiently enthusiastic about the competition to send in a batch of other entries from the newsletters she has edited without even mentioning it to their writers . |
| 13 | Various up-front creditors are not only paid first but , if the money is available , they are usually paid in full . |
| 14 | Referring to words , usually conjunctions , which often occur together , though not usually used next to each other : neither and nor in He neither smoke nor drank . |
| 15 | Hence they do not always strike last in hand-to-hand combat — the normal penalty for using two-handed weapons . |
| 16 | Now it has finally taken to the field and just about touched first base , announcing that OfficePower is from today , generally available worldwide on Santa Cruz Operation 's SCO Unix implementation . |
| 17 | But all the same , it is more neighbourly to ask first . |
| 18 | Bangor Caledonia Band with Pipe Major J Griffiths , one of the youngest bands in the arena , once again won first in piping and best overall drums in Grade 4B . |
| 19 | As in religious autobiographies of ‘ confessions ’ ( St Augustine is relevant here ) the poet is steadily driven to despair as one by one the hopes and promises of his early ‘ vocation ’ are withdrawn ; the restoration of his imaginative powers is the subject of the final books of the poem , and the new placing of the ‘ spots of time ’ passage now offers an explanation of this recovery , besides connecting the end of the poem with the ‘ childhood ’ scenes of the now almost forgotten first two books . |
| 20 | Merely pushed along throughout the final quarter-mile by Ray Cochrane , the Luca Cumani-trained two-year-old kept on well to finish fourth , beaten only four lengths . |
| 21 | Previously progress from halfway , ran on well to lead last strides , bt JOHANNA THYME ( rec 22lb ) hd , with MIMINING ( rec 14lb ) 4th btn 2l and BEAUMONTS KEEP ( rec 26lb ) 9th btn 6l , and CHAPLINS CLUB ( rec 9lb ) in rear ( Redcar 6f , Gd-Fm ) . |
| 22 | Guy Sterne projected a personality in which self-interest most emphatically came first . |
| 23 | Twin Oaks , one of the backmarkers on the first circuit , ran on remarkably well to finish fifth without ever looking likely to take a hand in the finish . |
| 24 | If art is an attempt to impose structure and meaning onto this chaos , there is no artefact more deliberately structured than the contemporary Hollywood movie , designed to prise money from the masses and reasssure them that good guys do n't necessarily finish last . |
| 25 | ‘ Unemployment in West Belfast did n't just happen last year or the year before in or 1969 … |
| 26 | There was loads of washing up in here still to do last night you just had to leave it . |
| 27 | Yeah , I have , of course he did n't really eat last week , especially |
| 28 | only we did n't really eat last night properly at all did we ? |
| 29 | But surely even having second thoughts about marriage was n't enough to prompt that kind of reaction , particularly as Isabelle must have known she was expecting Fabien 's child . |
| 30 | Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me . |